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I'm not sure we have made any progress whatever since this was written

Born #onthisday in 1790, Ludwig Emil Grimm. He was the youngest and lesser known of the 3 Grimm brothers and artist for the 2nd edition of his older siblings' famous fairytales collection. More on the Grimms (+ Ludwig's images) in our essay by Jack Zipes: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...

Reuters journey to understand Banksy began in Ukraine and led to a rooftop billboard in New York’s Meatpacking District, and the walls and auction houses of London reut.rs/4saJRbZ

What if there are no ‘unintended consequences’? The Iran war is also the death of sociology

Trump’s foe isn’t really Iran. This is a war against sociology and for untrammeled power and the lust to dominate, writes Keith Kahn-Harris

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

Amazon has been surveilling its drivers and warehouse workers for ages.

Now, those practices are being applied to white-collar workers who are being pushed to use AI as much as possible, no matter how flawed the technology is.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

I won't claim to understand the complex math parts, but this along w/ some other related pieces helped connect some dots between AI, quantum computing & large language models - and perhaps the nature of thought itself (or maybe just the "map") - you & @cascadiarevolt.bsky.social may find interesting

Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

I won't claim to understand the complex math parts, but this along w/ some other related pieces helped connect some dots between AI, quantum computing & large language models - and perhaps the nature of thought itself (or maybe just the "map") - you & @cascadiarevolt.bsky.social may find interesting

Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be “green” math.

Qualia essays go where curiosity leads. This week, join @nattyover.bsky.social on her quest to understand whether a burgeoning, abstract mathematical field can help the planet. www.quantamagazine.org/can-the-most...

Meet the ultimate gatekeeper of the nucleus. This molecular machine determines what compounds are welcome inside and which shall not pass. The mechanism behind its selectivity remains a mystery. www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...

Great question. I think the best way to SHOW people how we can create new norms is by doing little exercises like this:

What color is this called?

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Household Words, No. 16, July 13, 1850 by Charles Dickens https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78181

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Household Words, No. 17, March 30 to September 21, 1850 by Charles Dickens https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78182

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Household Words, No. 18, July 27, 1850 by Charles Dickens https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78183

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Household Words, No. 20, August 10, 1850 by Charles Dickens https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78185

LIVE SOON: From multilingual to multicultural: how do we escape from LLMs flattening culture? Starting Mar 11 at 9:00 AM EDT

How do we stop LLMs from flattening culture?

Join EM Lewis-Jong, CEO of @mozdatacollective.bsky.social, and Slow AI's Dr. Sam Illingworth live at 9am ET TODAY as they discuss why language and culture should exist in multitudes.

open.substack.com/live-stream/...

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now? The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

ICYMI: AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

Family Ghosts: On What We Do and Do Not Learn About Our Parents My mother married my father because she was fainting in the streets with hunger. She told me this one morning as she was getting dressed when I asked her, again. I wanted a story about a moonlit pr…

On generational silences and what we do (and don’t) learn about our parents.
lithub.com/family-ghost...

The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching

215 years ago, on the 11th of March 1811, malcontent textile workers destroyed factory equipment in Arnold, Nottingham, starting the Luddite movement. The Luddites opposed the use of automated machinery based on concerns surrounding workers' pay and product quality. #otd #history 🗃️

Implementing adequately private digital ID could mercifully cull the hordes of dishonest sockpuppeteering, then afterwards stand all people, agnostic of belief, on equal ground so enabling long overdue legitimate discussions.

How the Obscure Science of Rubbing Built the Past and Will Shape the Future From plate tectonics to knee replacements, tribology plays a big part in our world—and barely anybody knows about it.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a319...

The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

👀ICYMI: "a tipping point has been reached with more institutions now off X than on it."

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

#Bluesky #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

These "common sense" Luddite ideas thoughtlessly opposed by nobody are the disease at the root causing international dysfunctional events, behaviors & syndromes everybody has correctly diagnosed to be "only a symptom"

It won't be a cure but it might save the patient

Trust me, I'm a Doctor.

Digital ID done correctly is the only path back to sanity

Same exact problems,
exact same talking points,
reverberating for over a decade.

Every person on Earth's aware the negative possibilities

An inverted satanic panic to not use our magick tool for the things it's literally built for. Insane.

Missed Bell's first telephone call to Watson - my phone is permanently silenced

>Today is Lithuania Independence Restoration Day
>First recorded in English as Lettow(e) in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Don't let tomorrow's inconsistency prevent you enjoying whatever chronological anniversary

Strange turn of phrase found elsewhere too, though the other instances seemed serious so menacing and they slip my mind anyway - only one source in my immediately accessible memory: 'Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway'

>"They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural"

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim's character creation is forever

>"Who, are you?"

Isles & Glaciers "Hills Like White Elephants" YouTube video by Equal Vision Records

music.youtube.com/watch?v=4GhY...

Amusingly in Talcott Parsons most well known work "The Structure of Social Action" non-fiction math is used to explain real world concepts

A bit like two sides of mathematical reality looking in a mirror (from the same side) & wondering what evil magic imagined these dark & impossible refractions

As with all my posts this is only a fraction of a fraction, for now

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