From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

it makes me sad to learn about women seeking vocal training to reduce vocal fry. lots of people of all genders have vocal fry, but men only complain when women have it. what's happening is simply that men hate listening to women. leave vocal fry out of it.

me, singing: AM I SEXUAL

my 4 buddies, wearily: yeaahh

All I'm saying is that when you write "I am alive" on some paper and put it in a photocopier, judging by the output we don't know that there's *not* a very small man in there. And maybe he deserves rights

michael?
peter.

It's an issue that has a negative impact on all of society. Folks who can't read more than brief snippets are also unprepared to understand and analyze complex arguments and issues in our society and are much more easily conned and manipulated.

it does not matter how you explain it to me. i am well aware of gradient descent and neural nets and GANs and whatever other jargon you think I need to know to finally agree with you.

if you come at me saying "computer is Alive and also feels Sadness" i will be bullying you

american sunscreen brands are in the pocket of big greasy for reasons i will never understand

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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I think we're in WOTY territory here, ling types

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

The democrats have a *written* spending bill. There are no tax subsidies for undocumented people to get healthcare. Republicans said there are. Which speaks to my ongoing point of you might as well do the right thing because your haters are going to lie anyway.

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

"no worries if not!"

But they were, all of them, deceived. For there were some worries if not

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

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As Grice teaches us, if someone says they like pancakes we can safely infer that they hate waffles

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying:

“To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

Revealing new insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book gives a full overview of linguistic illusions.

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here are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding:

1. don't

hey, i'm gonna say more tomorrow, but i'm starting a reading group for "AI skeptics" - it's called "AI Skeptics Reading Group"

i am not great at names; please suggest alternatives if you're creative.

i'll be sending an email tomorrow, but here are a few things to get you started