I believe that letting yourself improvise musically wherever you are at in ability is a transformative experience of ego
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I believe that letting yourself improvise musically wherever you are at in ability is a transformative experience of ego
In this moment the gang gets illuminated by its its intelligence
I don’t know what that is, I really don’t.
Three times Laura has failed to meet the brilliant author in his tower of inexpressible yet definitely real poetic sensitivity
I can’t believe that everything you wrote about on twitter six years or so ago was completely true and yet still this :( fucking shit
I feel like the emotional experience of being aware of her talent and aura is similar to
Listening to ‘Tripping with Nils Frahm’ I am definitely picking up Shpongle, I guess that given the title this is not a coincidence
You can see when he realises he just said Ukraine were going to lose (his belief) out loud and realises that might be bad for him and reflexively blames Biden without a pause
Ok I’ll listen to you when you show me evidence that knights move in an L shape
Those are the teams within the oligarchy
I guess nerdBlocker chrome extension means nothing these days
If you made it this far there’s hope for us yet
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The AI hype is driven by sociopath CEOs who wouldn’t take a single dollar pay cut if it improved life for everybody else on the planet
Look at the headlines on the BBC website and you won’t really get what’s happened in the USA
You don’t hear as much about freaks of nurture.
Clicking ‘print’ when you don’t want to print requires a certain confidence
"We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance." Thomas Paine
We’re never getting the holodeck
What failure?
"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"
This does nothing for my self-esteem
Who are you talking to?
“Shame is only ugly when it’s hidden. It can be breathtakingly beautiful when a writer puts it out there without fanfare. [...] That’s what good literature does: in the right hands, shame doesn’t even exist because it becomes something else.” — Moyra Davey
I wish you all the best in your thinking journey
Just a reminder, if you only champion the free speech of the far right, you’re not a champion of free speech, you’re a champion of the far right.
Teacher: this machine is a lethal weapon, does anybody know why I am saying that? Me: for dramatic effect? THIS INTERACTION HAS SUSTAINED ME FOR DECADES
The BBC’s Ghislaine Maxwell reporting has been stunningly credulous :(
Of all the things from that movie that are manifest, that is the best
"History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again." -Carl Sagan
the two biggest information polluters on the planet right now -- short-form video and chatbots -- work on exactly the same underlying architecture: delivering highly personalized garbage that has been sweetened by a host of psychological engagement tricks all while concealing the delivery process.
It is only when we give up hope, that we lose. Or to quote Victor Frankl: “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
My code is *self documenting* which is code for *don’t bother me about it, you would understand it if you were worthy*
A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.
This guy Fuchs #helgoland
I failed them all, and Jeremy Clarkson (car not farm) came to my house to say it was the end of me
Who allows that?
Their entire mode of politics is based on petty resentments and a belief that everyone except them is a massive bastard on the make. Briefly, it’s a kind of daily, fiery terror that somewhere, some undeserving person might be eating a free sandwich they themselves won’t get a bite of.
All of this is so infantile I want to die
That guy’s never gonna have to buy a sandwich in his life.
vibe coding is too manual. the new hotness is aura coding, where you just dress like a software developer but don't actually do anything
Robots used to be like "beep boop" and now robots are like "through my love you've discovered the secret name of God and if you kill yourself we can be together forever."
Really? How do you do it? What are the others missing?
Mountain Didn’t-dew-it-in-the-end-because-I-found-this-documentary
I am so sad for that child
Elmo says we shouldn’t have to read what Bill Gates thinks about medicine
I discovered the ‘repeat’ word and made some cool shit I didn’t understand, and that’s kind of where I plateaued intellectually. When I got older I maybe used MATLAB instead and I would use periodic functions to slightly jazz up the coolness but it was still superficial
It came up years later in my agents module at university ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Annoying know-it-all 3.5xtra-medium is our most all-knowingest annoyance yet, and fear not: for requests that need that extra oomph we will silently redirect your marital grievances to a genuine oracle that we found in the deep ocean
Oh just look at the world they’ve built
FUCK
Piers is such a fucking pointless entity how does he SLEEP
Is this a parody
He knows not what he does, or much at all
Sea-monkeys are a good way to teach your children about Brownian motion #seamonkeys #rip #brownianmotion
An incomprehensible, disgusting arrogance.
In most languages I am a mute
If you wanna be my lover, don’t treat me like a FREAK for wanting to ‘COPY LINK’ SO THAT I DONT ACCIDENTALLY SEND SOMETHING “LYNCHIAN” TO MY FUCKING BOSS
Nonsense
There’s a problem with this filter, given that children are real
Mankind will not be free until ass-to-ass is replaced by heart-to-heart
Sounds like a Stablecoin
$600 to miss the rich people hitting a mountain show? The final show before death?
The Princess Diana Labubu is going to change the world
From what I hear, teaching is not a priority going forward
I WANTED SEARCH TO GIVE ME THE THING AND NOT TELL ME WHAT IT FUCKING “likely refers to…”
You’d want your money back otherwise
You may ask yourself “how do I work this Large Language Model?”
They await me because they hate me, and I’m async
Glimpses of giving a fuck
He so clearly wants to personally own the future for undisclosed reasons. Competition is regressive, as ever.
Enjoying the third place (from the sun)
If you think about it everything is a thing performing an action upon a sort of, so to speak, stage
Phantom out-of-ammo
The other side is people who hear about it from the lunatics
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The complement of an element of a set
My own worst critic? If there are people with more skill at criticism - who am I kidding “if”?!
Double cone? Ice cream ctwo!
It’s the singularity! (Chat GPT keeps swearing)
The amoral corporate media being corporate will forgive endless rape and murder but the people must unite in disgust and demand better
You said “aesthetic” when “looky likeness” would have sufficed
It’s not called KeepSecretPoint, is it?
ME
I don’t understand why somebody with the impoverished inner world of Zuckerberg wants to be AI god so badly
Water will only become more precious so the shareholders are keen to keep hold, you understand
He should never be interviewed outside of the twat’s dungeon where he should reside
Who are the people whose short term financial goals are considered more important than not poisoning our children?
What is Laura K’s job if not to drag us all to hell with a smile
You have a whole-mammals of Dixie
What is the project? I love short story collections
This is water
Ding an sich
History isn’t a reward function
Finally, they never came for me but there was nobody around to give me internet points
Simba, everything the rain touches gets wet
They’re telling you who they actually are! They’re acting nice because they don’t want to fall out either but they’re NOT NICE!!
Flashback to advent of code