Punk's not dead, but... www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like:
“Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star
I can't compete with this.
"To bring up an elephant in the room for an example, there are many people that are passionately and militantly against genAI use, but still participate in meat-eating ... Why perform rhetorical gymnastics to justify it by accusing critics of purity culture?" brennan.day/an-open-lett...
Some of those ugly things are things you wouldn’t want to tell your mom, your friends or even your lover. But it’s no public fucking service either. It’s just what I felt.” www.kerrang.com/the-darkness...
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
yo! dwarkesh interviewed @adapalmer.bsky.social!?
"It was quite the evening at the ground where the fans hate the players, the players hate the fans and everybody hates the board." www.theguardian.com/football/202...
busy! hope you're well--
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People gotta blame *something* for the world getting ever weirder ever faster, and in fairness social media probably did have a nontrivial amount to do with that
Screen shot of a news article, headline reads: “California condors are very rare, but 10% of them are trashing this woman’s house” Additional text: “Only about 200 of the birds live in the wild — and 20 of them are outside of Cinda Mikols’ home” From May 11th, 2021 Photo of birds trashing a deck
Yes I found this on the “sounds like a Mountain Goats lyric” group
this seems like something we should be funding
Should we be gambling on war? For so many reasons, no.
Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
The U.S. consulting market is expected to grow 7% this year as businesses turn to them to help them adopt AI.
I’ve seen some claim AI will make consultants obsolete but this shows a lack of understanding in what they do. We’re more likely to see tech jobs shrink due to AI before consulting jobs.
Probably nothing (I mean this literally for once) but the first instance of my openclaw-raspberrypi autojournalist turning data into a story carcipization.github.io/ai-osint/202...
The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Sorry but the moral of the story is that, be you Anthropic, NSF, a Ivy university, a doctor, a cop, doesn’t matter if you do 95% of what these people tell you in the hope you get to save the other 5% of your ethics, or your dignity, or your funding. They’ll steamroll you anyway until full compliance
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE:
one 28-year-old deputy comms staffer now responsible for dozens of officials worldwide—across governments, major companies, international organizations—being removed from their positions due to their connections with jeffrey epstein
I think this will be a watershed moment in tech similar to Elon's layoffs at Twitter in 2022. AI coding agents crossed the threshold in December and this is the beginning of the fallout.
"we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong." - Jack Dorsey
