“Insisting on technical precision when it matters can help us resist the easy idea that AI is a helper, ready to assist. Instead we must keep our focus on the uncomfortable thought that these systems partly and covertly structure what we say, think and learn.”
(I also have been trying to lower my cholesterol because I have genetic high blood pressure that’s getting worse)
Also whole grains are great and you can toss barley or couscous with the different veggies too.
Why Sensory Overload Isn’t About “Too Much”: Often, it’s about how much interpretive work the brain is being asked to do as it constantly combines sensory information to figure out what’s happening, and whether it matters. By @neuroscientist.bsky.social:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/givi...
Publisher's page for Consciousness and the Social Brain
This is a great book:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I know I wrote about this and gave a link to the recipe in my Season’s Eatings post on December 1st, but since I so love this new recipe, and it’s the latest you can make it in comfortable time for the festivities, I just had to post my Christmas Loaf Cake again now! www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...
Yes, we do talk a lot about his personal failings, often in very ableist terms, I'd say we talk enough about that.
What we don't talk enough about is the concentration of power that enables one person to destroy so many lives; or indeed about the fact the problem is a political machine, not one man
Fascinating piece on how AI may well think more like us than we’d like to believe. And why that’s both groundreaking and curiously sad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
Joburg Market guided smallholder farmers on accessing markets, meeting product standards, and connecting directly with industry experts. The initiative reinforces Joburg Market’s role in promoting inclusive growth and strengthening South Africa’s food systems.
I love your tshirt!
At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
theconversation.com/5-great-read...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
#Literature
But I do wonder if the job of entertainer will simply be much more restricted and possibly much less fun. It'll be a small number of people operating content generating systems. No longer a lifestyle for weirdos.
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)
add"-ai" to the end of your google search and no a.i. query will be initiated.
useful!
I think this underscores the issue with the entire premise of making everyone get a degree just to do well in life: most people are not scholars. Not even wannabe scholars. They do not and have never seen a degree as more than a paper for a bigger paycheque and you can’t make them.
Short thread on restoration and retrofit of our 17th century former farmhouse in Shropshire, UK. So much learning about managing natural moisture from ground, ambient air, human occupancy. Everything breathable, much of the added insulation applied externally to help keep walls warm and dry ../1
Four SF/F/H books by women writers that I’ve recently enjoyed
The media has failed to expose why Musk backs AfD.
Read Musk’s own posts about his Mars plan in this 🧵
I know it doesn’t fix anything but just to say I am so grateful for the work you do, and have learned so much from you. I am so sorry this is happening.
From world’s ‘roughest wilderness hotel’ to a cosy Cotswolds hideaway: 10 adventure stays in Europe
Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
Naosuke Mukoyama, Fueling Sovereignty
Please recommend a perfect movie that will change my life. Horror, sci fi or thriller. No pressure
Same in Germany.
ok I don't want to work, keeping this v time limited but I've got my Big Google Doc Of Every Book I've Read Since 2019 out so if you want a book rec describe what you want in like a sentence in the next ten minutes and I'll match you with a book from that doc
