Stuff I found on the Internet
"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car. Why should we fill our cities and towns with places like this?"
i think what the "eventually generative ai will be indistinguishable from human-made things" folks are failing to understand is that not only do the methods of creation leave traces in the media they create, you can't predict beforehand what those traces will be; also, people are really really good at recognizing these traces
"Working at an AI-equipped workplace is like being the parent of a furious toddler who has bought a million Sea Monkey farms off the back page of a comic book"
"researchers—from tenured professors to undergraduate students—have been subjected to online harassment, lawsuits, and repeated smears in partisan media. Some have received physical threats to their safety in comments, emails, phone calls, and even letters"
"Increasingly, despair is considered a national security issue as well as a health crisis." no of course we don't live in a dystopia, why do you ask
(proprietary) platform for qualitative research from conversations
"Right now [California insurer of last resort FAIR] is facing $340bn in exposure against just $250m in cash, so a single $8bn fire around Lake Arrowhead would wipe it out" yikes
html excerpt from wiley's mfa thesis: "A dungeon raid is a violent archaeology carried out within a hostile system of architecture rather than in a specific place. The “place” of a videogame dungeon lies in a form of visionary architecture, created by some imperial force positioned in a hierarchy of power that is part of a fantasy world... Adjacent to fantasy and architecture, dungeon games have an opportunity to critique history, power, place, and orientation."
"The independent, open, public interest resource detailing incidents and controversies driven by and relating to AI, algorithms, and automation"
"... refuses algorithmic humiliation for power and profit maximisation, focusing on activities of mutual aid and solidarity"
"These systems exist to facilitate violence, and HCI researchers who have committed their careers to curl back that violence at the margins have considerably more of something in them than I have. I hope it’s patience and determination, and not self-interested greed."
"...links concept labels from different conceptlists to concept sets. Each concept set is given a unique identifier, a unique label, and a human-readable definition. Concept sets are further structured by defining different relations between the concepts..."
"As a rule, I wouldn't have said that resource burning, hype driving, copyright infringing AI companies tend to be anywhere near the left of the political spectrum. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that those tend to be quite distinctly right-wing (and libertarian at that) "qualities"."
"a digital circuit simulation platform... designed primarily for educational use... an open-source project with an active community"
relating a fun adventure: emulating a 128k mac on a pi pico
nice simple guide with links to resources
crush ribs: "a set of very small standoffs that deform as a part is press-fit into them. Instead of a piece of hardware making contact with the entire inside surface of a hole, it makes contact only with the crush ribs. Press fitting a part into crush ribs is far easier (and more forgiving) than trying to get the entire mating surface exactly right." tried this out and... it really does work?!
"I think Austen could have found success starting an MLM back in Utah, a state run rampant with get-rich-quick schemes. His mistake was going after education in California, a state ready to deal with for-profit schools. He wasn't ready for the law."
i don't wanna be collected, i want you to dry your dishes with a towel i made until it falls apart
"Yes, someone needs to figure out what the implications of quantum computing are for cryptography, but I guarantee you that it is not Synergy Greg"