Brisket after 10 hours smoking with a basic coriander-pepper rub
Pastrami Reuben
Turned a store-bought corned beef into acceptable pastrami. It’s not Montreal smoked meat, but it will do
Brisket after 10 hours smoking with a basic coriander-pepper rub
Pastrami Reuben
Turned a store bought corned beef into a decent pastrami.
Feeling pretty good about the years I’ve spent telling students to avoid Grammarly
Listening to Miles Davis at the Cellar Door in 1970. Leap back in time fifty-six years and it would sound like nothing anyone had every heard. Leap forward in time fifty-six years and it sounds not just contemporary, but at the edge of what musicians do.
AI, the twenty first century lead: it’s in everything and poisoning everyone for no reason
New writing hell: Every time I go into this draft to make it short, it gets longer.
Some kids hacked the elementary school’s messaging system, so now 700 odd parents are replying all because that always helps
I played a set on a Bay Area radio station and twenty minutes later former bandmates called in to say that we were imposters.
Netflix pitch: This show asks judges to distinguish historically awful people from lifelike sculptures. They choose what they believe to be a sculpture and the host drops a boulder while screaming the show's title: "Is it shit?" End with judges' reaction from the "splash zone."
Exactly right
US foreign policy has rarely followed Clausewitz's "war is politics by other means."
For the US, war is economics by other means. It has no political objective, only the bounds of contrary economic forces.
And corruption and legal betting on foreign policy adds incentives to existing ones.
The US entering its Harkonnen era
A yellow lab smiling at a scowling black cat
The dog-cat relation in a nutshell
Seems like holding elites to account for illegal wars might have been a good idea, you know, in the 2000s or the 1980s or the 1970s or....
Spotting a really funny contradiction in higher ed talk about AI:
1) "All your students are using it and it's so good you can't tell."
and
2) "AI will be so important students need you to teach them how to use it."
Maybe we need to focus on specifics, not generalizations?
This is nonsense.
He’s conflating 1) whether a technology is able to do X, and 2) whether consumers want X.
This makes no sense for ”AI.”
The technological ability to do what?
The consumer demand for what?
It’s magical thinking. “One day, it will do everything and everyone will want it.” Sure
When I wrote about Great Expectations, I thought the novel might suggest a political difference between shame and contempt.
Where contempt seems to rely on hierarchy, shame may be democratizing. You see something shameful and you feel shame. And if shame spreads, it can push us to consequences
I know just enough about the history of my father’s name to be wary
If someone who claims to have the same name as me reaches out on social media, I’m going to assume it’s a William Wilson situation and not respond
Yeah. Horror is probably the genre most interested in spectatorship—or at least the problem of what it means to watch that kind of film
I hadn’t thought of it in that context but it makes that shot of the killer’s eyes in the closet as meta as anything Argento did with that imagery
There’s a brief sequence in the opening of Siodmak’s Spiral Staircase has people watching a Griffith film
h) Deep Ethical Concerns in Higher Education i) Respondents report concerns regarding (1) Corporate AI control (2) Political ideology (3) Civil society concerns (4) Repressive affiliations
Found myself in the institutional AI survey
I mocked the mailman in Dead of Night for whistling “Camptown Races,” but look who’s now wandering around singing it like I need to fill space with something out of copyright
He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
New Children of Men origin story
Bone in lamb shoulder coated in purée of onion, garlic, parsley, and spices
Lamb shoulder after six hours of slow roasting
Pulled meat mixed with defatted pan juices
After years of staring at Sami Tamimi’s pulled lamb shawarma recipe, I broke down and made it
I think part of the ideology of AI wants to obscure these differences.
If we distinguish the tools from the users AND from the capitalists/salesmen, we can at least describe what is actually happening from all the weird claims of what *might* happen
Exactly.
The supposed demand from students (and parents) to teach AI comes more from fear of job loss than deep interest
