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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.”
— Plato, Phaedrus 275

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1h

Dang I have to go reread that now

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 5h

I thought the Dandy Warhols love almost everyone

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Their outrage always seems to skip the actual predators.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 10h

Do it!

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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 6d

Yup! People who’ve lived a life papering over consequences stagnate at the age they last faced consequences because discomfort is the root of all education growth change and prosocial life skills

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “I need to know more about Japanese ambient music from the 1980s,” well I got you covered friends

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8 Perfect Japanese Ambient Albums

An introduction to the best environmental music records

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 13h

Much much harder. It can be hosted anywhere.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 20h

Your profile says you’re a comedy writer

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

done

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Lock her up

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

If you make them web-based they don’t have to be loaded through app stores

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Concerns about new technologies are not new. An old geezer named Socrates felt the same way in Phaedrus

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Never sure whether the apostrophe goes before or after the s on that possessive

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🇵🇸Baldemoto @baldemo.to · Jan 29

The day the world learns the difference between general machine learning models and generative AI is the day the world starts to heal

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Has Texas declared war on Illinois?

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

For weeks, Trump threatened to send in guards and local officials told him not to.

Now, they are here.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Texas National Guard members arrive at Chicago area military training facility

Military troops arrived at an Elwood training center after weeks of threats from President Donald Trump's administration, over the objections of local leaders.

chicago.suntimes.com

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect

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ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 5d

There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center

Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.

www.cbsnews.com

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT no longer loads on my iPad, just a blank screen. Even though this is well documented elsewhere by multiple users, the OpenAI help bot denies that there is any problem.

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/m...

Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well

As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information economics influenced a lot of my thinking on the eco…

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News is much more damaging to the human brain than marijuana

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

No that’s where they hide from their parents while they’re smoking it