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dan browne
@danbrownefilm.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Made a starter pack for the experimental film community. Please feel free to share and suggest more accounts. go.bsky.app/GxCaxqY
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Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options!
So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :
So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :
Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options!
So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :
So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :
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if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?
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People need to start investing in, like, Polaroids and Technicolor film if you ever want to use photographic or video evidence in a courtroom after 2026
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People need to start investing in, like, Polaroids and Technicolor film if you ever want to use photographic or video evidence in a courtroom after 2026
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There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.
July 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.
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I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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"China’s robotics market is projected to grow at an annual rate of 23% and reach $108 billion by 2028... By 2050, China is expected to have 302.3 million humanoid robots in use, far ahead of the U.S. projection of 77.7 million" www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
A bumbling game of robot soccer was a breakthrough for embodied AI
The soccer tournament was played by AI-powered robots in Beijing on Saturday. China is investing tens of billions of dollars to extend its lead in next-gen robotics.
www.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"China’s robotics market is projected to grow at an annual rate of 23% and reach $108 billion by 2028... By 2050, China is expected to have 302.3 million humanoid robots in use, far ahead of the U.S. projection of 77.7 million" www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
Read this thread ⤵️
So the real question isn’t “who decides what’s true.” The question is, do we still have the ability to decide anything together at all? Because once we lose that, democracy isn’t under threat. It’s already gone.
June 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Read this thread ⤵️
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Stay cool out there
June 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Stay cool out there
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How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention.
officechai.com/ai/building-...
officechai.com/ai/building-...
Building AI Felt Like Watching An Alien Intelligence Arrive: Early OpenAI Researcher
OpenAI had stunned the world by releasing ChatGPT in November 2022, but it turns out that the researchers working on the technology were even more stunned at what they'd developed. Jeff Clune, a fo...
officechai.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention.
officechai.com/ai/building-...
officechai.com/ai/building-...
This story is too dumb not to be a plant
June 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This story is too dumb not to be a plant
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“One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions”
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
aeon.co
June 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions”
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
aeon.co/essays/our-c...
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May 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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the modern information environment
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the modern information environment
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Douglas Adams saw it all coming.
May 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Douglas Adams saw it all coming.
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DuoLingo: we're not going to cut any jobs, but we want to use AI to limit how much more hiring we have to do while still growing and addressing "bottlenecks" that used to make us hire consultants.
AI panic monkeys: DuoLingo are cutting jobs!!!
#AIEthics #FutureOfWork #FoW
AI panic monkeys: DuoLingo are cutting jobs!!!
#AIEthics #FutureOfWork #FoW
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
DuoLingo: we're not going to cut any jobs, but we want to use AI to limit how much more hiring we have to do while still growing and addressing "bottlenecks" that used to make us hire consultants.
AI panic monkeys: DuoLingo are cutting jobs!!!
#AIEthics #FutureOfWork #FoW
AI panic monkeys: DuoLingo are cutting jobs!!!
#AIEthics #FutureOfWork #FoW
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To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
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rarely has there been a purer example of human progress created by someone repeatedly pressing a button labeled “DO NOT TOUCH”
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
rarely has there been a purer example of human progress created by someone repeatedly pressing a button labeled “DO NOT TOUCH”
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I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”
this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer
May 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”
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It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.
April 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.
This is a phenomenal essay to re-read closely today.
If you've never read Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think," first published in The Atlantic in 1945, you really must.
Still essential reading for anyone who cares about technology, humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Still essential reading for anyone who cares about technology, humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
As We May Think
“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibilit...
www.theatlantic.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a phenomenal essay to re-read closely today.
Thanks for all your hard work @jagmeetsingh.ca
April 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Thanks for all your hard work @jagmeetsingh.ca
Important read. Everything must be understood through the political economy of collapse.
"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Important read. Everything must be understood through the political economy of collapse.
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me