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I too would rip out my tapestry weaving over this

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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"We must remember the purpose of education, not as a soulless conveyor belt shuttling learners toward a soulless hypercapitalist treadmill, but rather, as equipment for the critical thinking and consideration required to survive our human world."

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Going to print this out and put it on my fridge

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via @tkingfisher.com #diet #cultural #modern #lifestyles #historical #food

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

How to Keep a Commonplace Book You don’t need a second brain. You need a first soul. A commonplace book won’t make you more productive. But it will make you more alive. Here’s how to build one - and why it might be the most important thing you ever do: 1/15

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

New essay from me: The End of Reality, published by @theshot.net.au thanks to @davemilbo.bsky.social 🙏🏽💜 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

"Substack is rickety. It’s as unstable as a SpaceX launch, as overpromised as a Stephen Miller marriage...it doesn’t have to fail outright to be a disaster. It just has to keep trying to become a life-sized map of the internet..." @anamariecox.bsky.social newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/subs...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"Without shared spaces governed by ethical norms—spaces where truthfulness, empathy, and accountability are cultivated—we are entering a post-civic condition: a society where digital subjects are manipulated, rather than empowered, and where citizenship itself is degraded."

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A playgroup at Adelaide's only First Nations aged care home is fostering meaningful connection between Elders and local children, celebrating the world's oldest continuous culture in a setting filled with laughter, language and cultural learning.

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Most people know that whales and dolphins use sound to explore their environment, but this means their senses can reach through your skin. They may be able to sense different organs and internal changes in your body. Think about what that means for communication and reading emotion.

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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad. Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly Wild piece:

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

There's not much better than listening to the thunder that precedes a summer storm rolling in. The hot, dry air starts to fill with moisture and the smell of petrichor. There's a delicious anticipation that soon the city will be cool and wet, awash with new beginnings

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Learning the etymology of words, because our brains love a good story, is phenomenal for remembering new vocabulary. And morphology (learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, etc) helps with remembering & guessing meaning of unfamiliar words too. #LangSky #etymology Top notch infographic with alt-text

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Artists like to be paid as everyone else does even if we love our job. Art is often a physical job that requires a lot of muscle memory and control. Artists actually LOVE creating art, and we don't want it automated.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

Absolute banger OCI report out today - rich countries like Norway and Australia could comfortably phase out oil and gas - cutting both enabled overseas emissions and domestic emissions massively - without skipping a beat.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

my current favorite TikTok account is this guy who tries to replicate women fitness influencers

submitted 51 days ago • 48 comments

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A couple of months ago, I posted a checklist of things one could do to be useful in these days of rising fascism. Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care. Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

This is Whiskey. She knows people pay good money for mud baths. Found this one for free! 13/10 very resourceful my friend (TT: ivycaponi)

submitted 17 days ago • 578 comments

In this moment of anxiety, please enjoy a baby goose falling out of an adult gooses wing. Yes I wrote that sentence. Yes this happened. Yes it's ADORABLE. No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶

submitted 17 days ago • 129 comments

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 18 days ago • 232 comments

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

With all of Greta’s privilege, she stands for what’s right every time. Every time she’s asked about herself she answers by redirecting straight to the people she’s standing up for. ‘How are you?’ ‘Better than the people in Palestine, specifically Gaza.’ 👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

submitted 40 days ago • 119 comments

A cartoon from my next book. Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT. Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

submitted 19 days ago • 73 comments

PM urged to intervene after Australian journalist hit by rubber bullet in LA protests

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This is exactly what we have been warning will happen for a while now, and it's constantly dismissed because data centre demand looks small when you compare it to the entire energy demand of humanity archive.ph/U3YsF

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

You’re not lazy, you’re overwhelmed. You’re not antisocial, you’re drained. You’re not broken, you’re trying to survive in a system built to burn you out.

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

reminder that referenceangle.com exists.

submitted 232 days ago • 571 comments

📽 | Así ha sido el momento en el que un elefante ha entrado en una tienda de Tailandia para buscar comida social.elpais.com/zvi924

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Hand painted with underglaze on stoneware. I have a shelf full of greenware sharks slowly drying, and I’m very excited to start glaze day 🦈 #ceramic #pottery #art #ceramics #ceramicart #artist #floral #design #shark #flowers #flowerart #illustration #clay #handmade #handmadeart #sharks #painting

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

My Cannes Film Festival cartoon for Mubi Notebook is now available as a limited edition print: shop.mubi.com/products/not...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

‪”We cannot have a system where the average American feels like they have no control over their data, over their agency, over their future economic opportunity” @karenhao.bsky.social breaks down why the rise of unregulated AI companies “amassing economic and political leverage” is so dangerous.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohamed. Mohamed is 28 years old and ran a small cosmetics shop before all this (you can see a photo on his GFM to see how much care he put into it). He lost it and his home. He got engaged last week and wants to restart his life ❤️

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments