The rapture has passed and we are in hell.

@Aphelion One thing I realized awhile back, is that when you look up at the stars, the stars you see are because the photons they admitted maybe millions of years ago, traveled across the emptiness of space, and then struck the retinas in your eyes. You are connected to them across time and space.

Are you confused?
Are you lost?
Searching for answers?
Been scrolling for hours and finding nothing?
Then you need to go here…

www.subgenius.com

Onion’s Ben Collins wrote: “It’s becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love.”

@GottaLaff Back in 60’s, Roger Price, in his book The Great Roob Revolution, said if TV execs got four letters complaining about something they took it really seriously. Given that writing and posting a letter requires a lot of effort, which most people won’t bother with, four letters means […]

Every output of an LLM is reached through the same operation. Labelling some as hallucinations falsely privileges certain outputs over others. Every output is, in fact, a computational hallucination; their perceived alignment or otherwise in relation to our world view is purely a hermeneutic […]

Busted out my favorite T-shirt to get my COVID19 and flu vaccines.

Usually I have a big smile on my face, but this time, I can’t just be happy about it.

I’m also angry for all the people struggling to get their vaccines, and for the reason it’s happening.

So here’s my message for RFK Jr.

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

El Lizzitzky would love it. Beautiful!

Thanks to the new issue of #ForteanTimes, in an article tracing a subset of a history regarding serious riots over some strange reasons, I learned what happens when you combine clowns, firefighters, prostitutes, and #toronto […]

LLMs from an Elizabethan perspective

I’m reading this new biography of John Donne, Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (great book), and there she quotes Donne’s Satire II.

But he is worst, who (beggarly) doth chaw
Others' wits' fruits, and in his ravenous maw
Rankly digested, doth those […]

We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It’s impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I’m an AI skeptic because I don’t understand them, think again.

I am a man, but I believe in equal rights and equal pay for women.

I was born biologically male, and identify as male, but I respect that not everyone identifies with their birth gender.

I am straight, but I understand that not everyone is — and I believe love is love.

I have light-colored […]

@GottaLaff And on the same day we, at least in San Francisco, received in the mail a Vote No flyer on the ballot measure. Them right wing people work fast.

@secretgeek There used to be a bookstore in San Francisco in the Haight worse than that. Things were piled much higher on rickety DYI shelving. If the owner caught you taking a picture, he would have raging fit. When you walked in the door, he would interrogate you on your reasons for being […]

I wish I had known in my 20s that selling science fiction to venture capitalists was way more profitable than selling it to publishers of science fiction

There’s a lot of stuff now about AI Jesus. Well on www.subgenius.com there is a very early AI Jesus called MacJesus, from the last century! And he speaks directly to you!! Get it now!!!! (And have an old Mac or emulator to run it though…)

@DisruptionNetworkLab Back in the early 2000’s I met John Dean, of Watergate fame, at a book reading for his book Conservatives Without Conscience, all about authoritarianism. He talked about this book and later research about it. Quite eye opening.

@johncarlosbaez Tavener converted to Orthodox Christianity back in the 70’s. But to that he added Traditionalism, a very small, but very influential movement that postulated a central, more or less, mystical core that exists within all major religions. The people behind this movement are highly […]

Stewart Home, in his new book, Fascist Yoga, has a chapter title that quotes “Bob”.

I’ve been loving these rainy mornings lately in SF.

Only a few minutes to go!

I was standing across the street from the old location of SFMOMA this morning and I remembered when I was a volunteer there regarding CDROM stuff. Then the notion of “art speak” popped into my head. Then the phrase “inadvertent pedantic dada” popped out. My new term free for anyone to use.

@xavier oh my god, that is the most arcane, little detail of joke, I’ve ever seen. Made me laugh though!