Alexis Madrigal

I love to follow you for things like this, which are beyond my range, but wildly interesting.

Kinda sad tbh

hey, somebody has posted my niche position!

lol

Yesssssss

Just a bunch of normal medieval guys

YOU'VE DONE IT

If anyone has ever clicked this button, I would like to meet them. The freakiest of freaks.

I do find it interesting how readily people chuck biological complexity. Maintaining homeostasis becomes equivalent to a thermostat's action. They think those levels of biological detail don't matter & can be abstracted. Buuut ... that's not my intuition! (I won't go harder than that. I'm not sure.)

I tried this and it came back with a solid B+ poem. I think these have gotten way way less reproducible — the ending

“I should delete Instagram.” *deletes instagram*

Oh god

Agree

I think there’s also a self-fulfilling failure mode at play, too. When people who hate AI on principle try the new AI tools, they don’t try to make them work, have not learned how to prompt, don’t understand the domains where they work best, and interpret the results as what everyone gets.

man I love the Journal of Commerce

Sharp things

Kind of unfathomable to try to translate that into actual plant terms

It’s a really interesting question, though, about whether/how stations should be training and building local reporters into influencer-type journalists. I would hate it, but components of it may be necessary when broadcast radio eventually declines (which has not happened to us in the Bay yet)

One partial answer is public media member stations. NPR, proper, has always been a smallish piece of the overall ecosystem relative to all the local stations.

We have dozens of young journalists at KQED. Though it’s not enough, it’s the most immediately useful network, I think.

Yup, exactly, same ... but for the dumb microstereotypes that I find myself adjacent to. Even/especially when I'm in on the joke, I just find myself kind of disgusted with the whole tenerprise.

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It turns out that one of the most popular content types for humans right now is the micro-stereotype.

It kind of doesn’t matter if it is deployed as iykyk pride, as comedy, or as object of ridicule.

Such a strange, dehumanizing form!Maybe the spiritual opposite of a (good) novel?

In my current body, the 24 beers would definitely be the hardest, but also the worst thing to “train”

Well, I’d have to start Saturday

Make it 8 hours and now we’re talking challenge

Yeah, too easy. You do the run, which is not that big a deal. You eat a bunch of tacos and start drinking.

Despite basically agreeing with this, I think living systems should be privileged absent very, very strong evidence to the contrary

(Related: consciousness or sentience may not be the only or governing principle)

I feel this, too

“We are taking back your papers, you have no papers now” is even more chilling than “show us your papers”

Along with IF and 2666, that’s the thicc boi podium IMO