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Holly Herndon - PROTO

a drawing of several geese in the foreground, looking around and at a barn on the far side of the lawn. one goose is sitting at the peak of the barn roof and waving its wings.

no one could convince george he wasn’t a rooster

Coffee served by Shelly at the RR Diner. Twin Peaks S01E07 - Realization Time.

Twin Peaks: Coffee served by Shelly at the RR Diner.

Making Sense of the Hype [Wading Through AI - Episode 2] YouTube video by Molly Rocket

Pretty good hashing of the C++ compiler stuff youtu.be/HgNKa9UlRF8

Across the river by the dirt bike track there's this section along the Scioto that I would love to walk again on a day the trees are not shedding branches such as today.

If the Dave Matthews Band didn’t exist, we’d be forced to invent it

Black riders have always held the reins - High Country News The West becomes more honest, and more durable, when Black cowboys are understood not as symbols or exceptions, but as foundational.

Love seeing documentary work uplifting the history of Black cowboys, who were and are a really essential part of the West.

rooting for the ides of march

Oh for sure ... There's a bean dad adjacent pressure to post through things but then when you're trying to be an influencer that's the whole thing but an academic should not give two shits. My problem is the Brandolini's law part and I want real knowledge to really flow instead of bs !! 🤞Is tough.

It would be such an honor to be killed by Sensei Phil Collins

You could—I believe in my heart of hearts—perform the entirety of Musgraves’ album Golden Hour at karaoke and no one would be upset at all.
The whole bar would affirm your artistic choice. You would get phone numbers and a few ranch waters. You would be invited to the Tucson Gem Show.

Sorry I was an NLP practitioner for the last decade plus :p ... She's making the distinction between transformer technology which is widely used ethically with full traceability, and the large models themselves using that transformer technology which are permanently problematic due to their contents

Your code is 011048. We will NEVER ask you for your code and DO NOT enter it into any sites or forms. DO NOT USE THIS CODE

Why call it "rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation" when "cancelled by woke" is right there.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I cannot find any instance of him personally speaking about his personal mental health awareness and understanding.

1. We are getting at least four more episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000

2. Vietnamese iced coffee, one of the most perfect foods

3. Laying down on clean sheets in a freshly-made bed

I think a lot about a post by someone who ran a hobby shop of some form (forget if it was a comic shop or Warhammer store or what) that basically said putting up a little rainbow flag sticker on the door was the best business decision they made because they served as That Guy repellants.

We can play this game all day: seek permission for an edge case, retreat to another case when trouble arises, appeal to amiability or tolerance. Two things to note when a conversation gets to this point. First, it’s a misrepresentation: reluctance to grant permission is portrayed as an intolerant move, a wish to take the other’s toys, when it is nothing like that. What do you need my permission for, anyway? Second, it’s a distraction: it moves the conversation away from values and towards a tech-first perspective.

indeed — blogged about this a while back after a #reproducibilitea session where this came up ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...

Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.

Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—

*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*

Kobayashi Maru that shit. The whole premise is bullshit. Shut the trolley down. No one needs to die.

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

The whole article is great: www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

bad black and white drawing of a giant single cheerio in a bowl. the cheerio is only slightly smaller than the bowl

introducing Cheerios Grandé!

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Behold NYC's First-Ever Trumpeter Swan A member of the once-near-extinct species has taken up residence in the East River. But why?

There's a new hot bird in town! And it's the first time NYC has ever seen a trumpeter swan, in recorded history (after it came back from the brink of extinction). In the last week, it's been spotted frequently hanging out with one of our mute swans 👀

hellgatenyc.com/behold-nycs-...

book excerpt. "...ASCII, pronounced 'ass-key'."

I mean can you figure out a better way to help people pronounce ASCII?

90s Captain Ahab: Thar she blows. Thar she blows again.

i feel like this is all happening cause we stopped pumping up the jam

[to ‘dancing on my own’] i’m at the doctor, getting my blood drawn, ohhhh

A black and white photo of a street corner mailbox with spray painted graffiti on the side reading “men must change or die”

Vivian Maier, Untitled (‘Men must change or die’, Chicago, 1971)