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The Eumenides III
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The Eumenides III
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Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.
I guess it's a blanket dismissal
Favorite hybridizers: Ferdinand Cayeux. 'Député Nomblot' from 1929 was extremely popular in its day. Widely grown and well regarded, it was heavily used in hybridizing. Old shots, so poor quality. I haven't grown this one for a long time, but it did great while i had it.
#iris 🌱
In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.
Kids be capybaramaxxing (and I think that's wonderful)
I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
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Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
It is really a low water mark to be at war with the one of the worst regimes on Earth and manage to come away as the callous and undignified party.
Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)
Agreed. Sustaining your curiosity and excitement about the world is a way to fill your life with love and joy, no matter how solitary a person you may be.
unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live
Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...
They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation.
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There is a battle raging over the lack of visibility into AI training data, write Dick Blankvoort, Harshvardhan Pandit, and Maximilian Gahntz. A neglected provision in the European Union’s AI Act may prove to be the biggest break in securing more transparency from AI developers to date.
Someone referred to Diet Coke as "fridge cigarettes" and I have never felt more called out
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Dear scholars (especially of religion). Please, please, please stop writing articles on Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. that use vague references to Christianity as if it is as the default tradition to which all others can be compared.
love to wake up to an e-mail from HMRC saying "IMPORTANT MESSAGE - VISIT YOUR SELF-ASSESSMENT ACCOUNT" and then log into the site with my heart in my mouth only to find that the message is "here's a digital copy of the tax statement you got in the post last week"
I breathe the air that comes out of your nose, the north wind which comes forth from your mother. (BDF)
ah THE COMPLETE HOMOSEXUAL HANDBOOK, one of the lesser known late TSR products.
So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.
And I think there might be some value, in this juncture, in a story about a hero whose battle is against despair and cynicism and who finds the strength to get past that and rejoin the fight.