@dcardo
Critical histories and practices of automation and computing in design/architecture. Other stuff too. Associate Prof. @CarnegieMellon. Books: Builders of the Vision, Designing the Computational Image. http://www.dcardo.com
Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.
In an 11-3-1 vote Allegheny County Council has voted to PASS legislation banning cooperation with ICE county wide.
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If it was an AI it was most definitively a person who simply does not care.
...grammatical anarchy as a form of camouflage.
So the fact that we bombed a girls elementary school, while likely using AI for targeting, is going to be a major headline story dominating American news coverage when exactly?
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
it would also be in the long run sadly accurate.
Got it. Assuming your department has some sort of review process (e.g. for reappointment), talking with your head and mentor/s about how to prioritize your projects may still be helpful. (I realize this may be too vague or obvious to be useful. And, full disclosure: I struggle with this a lot.)
My 2 cents: having a conversation with your department head about criteria/process for promotion at your department may help to prioritize some projects over others. Talking to mentor (and/or trusted colleagues), may also help!
Cosas raras que me ha tocado ver estos días y el trumpismo Latino haciendo contorsiones para odiar a Bad Bunny.
Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope
ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia.
The cruelty is boundless.
thank You! ✨
👌 thread drawing together key voices in support of public libraries to which I would add this 2014 article by the indispensable @shannonmattern.bsky.social: Library as Infrastructure share.google/5Io9CfFf5mTL...
The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.
Seeing Prof. Principe's keynote at HSS years ago 2017?) inspired me to study software and its history in a different way.
Estaba justo mirando Bluesky Ñ y bueno, tío, ya sabes. (Aunque tal vez es que aún es temprano.)
Tal vez haya datos sobre esto, pero mi impresión es que Bluesky es una plataforma predominantemente anglófona—y que además su parte hispana, ya de por sí limitada, es predominantemente ibérica.
49 years ago today
Marquee Moon is the debut album by the American punk rock band Television, released on this day in 1977.
#punk #punks #punkrock #marqueemoon #television #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I learn, reading U. Le Guin, that H. G. Wells called his early works (early examples of what later would be known as science fiction) as "scientific romances" or "fantasies of possibility."
“In a caustic twist of history, while the first Colossus was built to decode and disrupt Nazi messages, the second seems inclined to recast and amplify them.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...
A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
The founder of Palantir retweeting this is just icing on the cake
I think they are -- and 100% agree they feel out of place there.
Gabions are quite useful in civil/road engineering as low cost containment walls. In that context they can be quite beautiful. Here, they don't. (They are not doing what they are supposed to do.) Perhaps a more inspired/refined Gabion recontextualization is Herzog & DeMeuron's Dominus Winery.
Or Latin America.
The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse
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my grandparents were born in western germany in the early 1930s. they were kids and early teenagers. my grandma was made homeless in the bombing of mannheim. she was a middle schooler. in their twenties, they had a daughter and decided they had to leave germany. they went to england
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
