@jfoss117
Phd student at Harvard. Research lead at Plurality Institute. Exploring somewhere in the intersection of technology governance, economics, STS, and plurality. I also like making things. https://jeffreyfossett.com/
Project idea: a bike computer that is oriented towards exploration and serendipity rather than performance and optimization. No stats, maybe a map. Maybe no fixed route just a direction to keep heading? Some pointers towards interesting places. Ability to take notes, pictures
premier league but match scores are weighted by squad wage bills fbref.com/en/comps/9/w...
Scrolling tik tok end credits
A bot that auto posts every time I open social media and says how many minutes I spent scrolling to shame me
e.g. meta-decisions about what to watch (it does give a slight spoiler tho)
Unironically pretty good use of LLMs is to get spoiler-free info about stuff you're watching / reading
At some point, commentator said something like "there is nothing more spurs-y than surrendering a 2-0 lead at home"
Felt bad for Tottenham in this match lol
Immanente Machtverständnis chatgpt.com/share/675704...
(A poem using only the top row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard)
*Top row poetry*
We tire out.
I riot; you quit.
We try.
Also: www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones... and other stuff on this sub could be worth a look
Apple watch with standalone service (so can be used w/o phone) kinda works for this? You have to be ok with apple maps instead of google maps tho. Not sure about diabetes apps, but it can call/text/spotify and is bad for browsing/social media scrolling
“The luddites were right”
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Replicating a fairly similar response to the Jon Bois tweet using the "empathy" counterspeech prompt from that paper and the same LLM they use
E.g. compare these two:
Have you seen this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14986
To me some of these replies look strikingly similar to the "counterspeech" LLM interventions studied in this paper, which finds a backlash effect. So I almost wonder if these could be misguided attempts to do something constructive
Local comparative examples
It's also kinda good because it hooks into mitpress.mit.edu/978026251760... check out those bicycles on the cover
local bike shops as sites of competing techno-political imaginary formation and substantiation of the "right" relations between technology (bike), market and individuals (consumers?)
interesting article from @glichfield.bsky.social
Liverpool v Man City not even looking close so far
ya it's insane. the above line is from this heidegger essay where he's hating on technology because of how it put us in relation to the natural world (positions natural world as "standing reserve" for human use). this thing is like the final boss of that vibe www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/cou...
Nature as standing reserve
