we all have a second amendment right to our sandwiches now.
which 2020s new tech will be remembered as more transformative, GPT or GLP?
the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar a deep fake from exercising Article II powers.
this is so miserable. a linkrot explosion. https://mastodon.social/@danyork/115111661898500663
sometimes i think i have mitochondria hypochondria.
@admitsWrongIfProven we’d miss you!
you worry that you’re self absorbed, but it really is all about you.
it turns out some people are unimpeachable whom i’d never have thought to apply that adjective to before.
your last home is one you never live in.
colononauts. where no man has gone before. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.
"he has small fingers and a nanobanana."
is that the proper usage?
it's hard to keep up with the lingo.
i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.
from @resnikoff, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. https://publiccomment.blog/p/some-slight-issues-with-the-positivist-approach-to-politics
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBl is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
“hyperrealistic” is an oxymoron.
q: what do sentences and investigations (that can lead to sentences!) have in common?
a: subject and predicate
was New Coke the original woke?
when will The State be reified as a chatbot you can talk to?
@artlung i think a lot of what contemporary platforms do ought to be public goods provided by the state. meetup.com would qualify. the basic criterion is network effects are created by and should be owned by the public. if the value of a thing comes from network effects, it should be public, either like the public internet (decentralized, participatory) or if that’s not practical managed in the public interest by the democratic state (if/when we have one of those).