Grateful to the journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society for asking me to review Jeffrey Ding's excellent new book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. I use it to discuss AI development not as an inter-national scientific 'race,' but an intra-national financial struggle.
Reminder: You don't need to have an opinion about every single bit of gossip on this webbed site.
And if you do have an opinion, there is no requirement to share it publicly. It's totally ok (and probably healthier) to just... not do that.
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
tiny cat snores make the fight worth it
this was funnier in my head
digital art. a person holding a banana in front of a cat who looks like they’re hollering
a person holding a banana in front of a cat who looks like they’re hollering
cat
Hey if you live in the greater Seattle area and you approve of Mayor Wilson's plan to ban ICE from using city property, vote Yes in the Komo poll. It's being flooded by right-wing bots.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Neodymium is one of those elements who's budget in the ocean is off (unbalanced), also, we don't know where all the Nd is coming from. This study shows that the dissolution of iron-manganese (Fe-Mn) oxyhydroxides in resuspended sediments and dissoltuion in pore water are an important source. 🧪🌊
And in the time of monsters the magicks grew more potent
Ashley Willis sits in front of a gallery wall of framed art prints, wearing a black baseball cap and striped sweater. She covers her face with both hands in apparent exasperation during a Zoom meeting. The video thumbnail shows a timestamp of 2 minutes and 34 seconds
How your meeting finds me
Tail wagging stops
Train's comin
Nicole Kidman crying and smoking
Jan drinking wine
When the LLM doesn't tell me "you're absolutely right"
One of my favorite pacific sunsets I’ve witnessed. Sky just kept getting crazier and crazier and it really did feel like I won something.
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Lady Luck II
12”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel
Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966)
“The blue world”
oil pastel, 30 x 21 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
We're in the Slopthrowposcene
happy new year to all my extremely online friends
The most annoying sound in the world? Gotta be the beating heart under the floorboards. We get it. We’re haunted by our conscience and slowly going mad. It’s been done!
a drawing of an orange (the fruit) with cat ears
an orange sits on a wooden table, while just behind it a cat’s ears peek up
an orange cat
Impressions from the Antarctic Peninsula.
the kind of boring and banal truth about AI tools is that they are basically like every other tool in that they work best to complement your existing areas of expertise, have limitations, and do require an investment of time to learn their capabilities and limitations.
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
apple what are we doing here
I collected the December badge on Duolingo!
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "keyboard design"
1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "defense security?"
1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "industrial robots"
1980s newscaster with a graphic that says "x-rated spaces"
computer culture
If you love information, set it free
tired: information wants to be free
inspired: data yearns for the mines
in seriousness, I do think one of the most important tells of a good and competent tech worker is that they're not afraid of being replaced by the robot. the robot doesn't do the important parts.
Had to get a foaming soap dispenser to use the diluted version of this soap lol
A tiny, tiger-striped, exceedingly furry, angry looking cat. She is called Lulu Belle, and she has lived sixteen years in this earth and intends to live sixteen more at least.
Your timeline has been visited by tiny angry cat. Do one good deed and RT to cleanse your timeline.
