@markmadsen
Decision support, design, 30 years of data, architecture, augmenting human analysis, systems, cybernetics, safety, resilience, GOFAI, data cleaning & prep, engineering management, urban planning, botany, history, art, dada
It’s almost like they want a lot of people, including your kids, to suffer and die.
If this upsets you, maybe think about the ways you’re helping them achieve their goals on a daily basis, and stop doing that.
Dogs are losing SEVEN HOURS tonight!
BREAKING:
A federal judge in Washington just ruled that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — which oversees Voice of America — and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.
I think about this all the time. And for faculty in good jobs it still has some of that — I do enjoy knowledge making. But those are so so few and everywhere else the academe is indentured labor to a loan shark.
This is a tortious interference claim by an insurance company against OpenAI, which is definitely going into the rotation for next fall’s Torts class.
It is easier to explain to your children why some boys like boys than it is to explain to your children why the sky is blue Jesus Christ
Pretty cowardly!
New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Crawling through traffic on a bus passing the sports arena because the bus can’t cross the bridge built in 1912 because the bridge’s deck is failing and marveling that there’s tens of millions of public dollars available for the sports arena but not for improving the transit or replacing the bridges
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.
Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.
We are very close. Very proud of the work that’s got us this far. Still more steps to go.
Some thoughts in this I want to consider
Some thoughts I want to consider in this
As a vibey archivist type, I can still confirm that this looks like a great opportunity to do some meaningful work
How is it the USPS doesn’t have enough money after the Trump 1 admin closed centers and fired people and then did it again last year? The genius cost saving didn’t work? Imagine.
Meanwhile, it’s a government service, not a business. Of course it runs in deficit.
the legislature ignored less regressive alternatives to their chosen cuts, then laughed at and chided the people trying to tell them how badly they’d screwed up
AI is not inevitable. Nothing in human societies is inevitable because we design them. Healthcare can be free for the public. Books can be bought instead of bombs. Universities can be free for students, and they can even receive a stipend to live off. Don't let companies dictate the future.
Interesting interview study about AI in the labor process. Best possible atmosphere (well-paid, autonomous) still results in more work, not less, because AI helps you multitask, work during nonwork time, extend your capability into other people's turf (experts then need to clean up vibejobs)
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
Had an amazing nap in the 1980s while sitting next to Phillip glass during the first act of one of his operas.* Woke up and thought oh shit then realized he was asleep
*i love his music and the 3rd act of satyagraha is the most beautiful piece of music i’ve ever heard so don’t @ me
I’m especially annoyed at @luxottica.bsky.social who made the RayBan frames for Meta glasses impossible to distinguish from regular glasses. Glad they’re being sued for this.
“District officials say chatbots’ problems stem from how the tools are configured and the information they draw from, rather than the technology itself.”
How would college administrators be able to judge that?
Blame the users. Blame IT. Don’t blame the idiot who paid for it.
Hey @danhon.com i think you had something on this…
How broken is #FOIA? In 2009, I asked DoD for info on membership of some reorganized NSC committees under Obama. Just got the response yesterday, 16+ years later
hey look a fun history lesson!
Direct link to the Nature study looking at ChatGPT Health: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
