Otro diablo blanco
@litwicki.bsky.social
raconteur & roustabout
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Author of #BogotanoPorAccidente | co-author of Peter Malmö | Cycle-tourer | 🇺🇸 Chicago | 🇨🇴 Bogotá | 🌎 bogotanoporaccidente.com | litwicki.com
I FOLLOW BACK.
Author of #BogotanoPorAccidente | co-author of Peter Malmö | Cycle-tourer | 🇺🇸 Chicago | 🇨🇴 Bogotá | 🌎 bogotanoporaccidente.com | litwicki.com
Now we have this guy channeling Epstein here
Bovino: "Here in the US Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children"
January 23, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Now we have this guy channeling Epstein here
Overlay these trend lines with the same for smartphone use...
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
April 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Overlay these trend lines with the same for smartphone use...
Thus progresses the enshittification of the human brain. Eventually people just won’t be able to understand things written pre-AI without having AI dumb it down for them. We’re truly circling the bowl at this point.
Today I talked to a friend who is using genAI to summarize works of nonfiction so he can absorb info. more efficiently. Then read a recent post by @marcwatkins.bsky.social on reading in the age of genAI. For my 5 y.o., books are very much physical objects. She just drew this: me and her reading
February 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thus progresses the enshittification of the human brain. Eventually people just won’t be able to understand things written pre-AI without having AI dumb it down for them. We’re truly circling the bowl at this point.
Monet had his haystacks, I have my tree.
January 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Monet had his haystacks, I have my tree.
comparative international stormwater management
January 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
comparative international stormwater management
I’ve been honoring this line for 20 years
Remember: Baristas are calling on YOU to honor our picket lines! Do NOT buy from ANY Starbucks through the 24th!
🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/sbwo...
bsky.app/profile/sbwo...
December 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I’ve been honoring this line for 20 years
Bogotá closes 75 miles of streets to cars every Sun & holiday till 2pm. Nothing but intractable car-brain makes this impossible in Chicago. This is why I reject the idiotic #BikeTheDrive event where you can ride on 1 street for 1 morning every year if you pay $85.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
Bogotá’s Open Streets Program Is the Most Successful in the World. I Went to Find Out Why.
If you ask a Bogotáno where they learned to ride a bike, they all have the same answer.
slate.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Bogotá closes 75 miles of streets to cars every Sun & holiday till 2pm. Nothing but intractable car-brain makes this impossible in Chicago. This is why I reject the idiotic #BikeTheDrive event where you can ride on 1 street for 1 morning every year if you pay $85.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
HOW NETFLIX KILLED MOVIES
Brilliant piece of media journalism about Netflix's "pseudomovies, designed to be played but not watched."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Brilliant piece of media journalism about Netflix's "pseudomovies, designed to be played but not watched."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 AM
HOW NETFLIX KILLED MOVIES
Brilliant piece of media journalism about Netflix's "pseudomovies, designed to be played but not watched."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Brilliant piece of media journalism about Netflix's "pseudomovies, designed to be played but not watched."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Reposted by Otro diablo blanco
generative AI is a mechanism to destroy higher learning and gate off knowledge production, and the knowledge accumulated over the last 250 years nothing less.
It's weird how I haven't seen any AI products that do the work of upper corporate management or college administrators....you'd think that the most expensive links in the chain would be where AI would be most cost effective...hm, this must just be an oversight that will be remedied soon.
December 15, 2024 at 3:56 AM
generative AI is a mechanism to destroy higher learning and gate off knowledge production, and the knowledge accumulated over the last 250 years nothing less.
It never ceases to be funny to me how the folks behind Bluetooth & companies who use it in their products continuously & earnestly tout new versions with improved capabilities & it never changes & has never been more than marginally functional at best.
December 15, 2024 at 1:58 AM
It never ceases to be funny to me how the folks behind Bluetooth & companies who use it in their products continuously & earnestly tout new versions with improved capabilities & it never changes & has never been more than marginally functional at best.
Like many modern excesses, the trend to stick cheap LED lights all over the tree canopy is detrimental to the environment, hurting animals & creating ever more plastic waste that will soon end up in landfills. But it looks so pretty as I drive past in my electric SUV, saving the planet, dontcha know
December 2, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Like many modern excesses, the trend to stick cheap LED lights all over the tree canopy is detrimental to the environment, hurting animals & creating ever more plastic waste that will soon end up in landfills. But it looks so pretty as I drive past in my electric SUV, saving the planet, dontcha know
I think I've just discovered the best place name in the US, edging out even Knob Lick, KY and Wet Beaver Creek, AZ.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorgan...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorgan...
Unorganized Borough, Alaska - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I think I've just discovered the best place name in the US, edging out even Knob Lick, KY and Wet Beaver Creek, AZ.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorgan...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorgan...
I do not need a decently sized house on a few acres of land with a hidden 5-storey subterranean bunker complex, but if you give me one, I will live in it, and use the bunker occasionally.
November 30, 2024 at 3:46 AM
I do not need a decently sized house on a few acres of land with a hidden 5-storey subterranean bunker complex, but if you give me one, I will live in it, and use the bunker occasionally.
AI will achieve the same end that in centuries past was achieved by prohibiting whole classes of people from learning to read & write. You want a massive underclass of illiterate peasants & cannon fodder? AI is on it.
— long time CC prof watching student learning drop off a cliff
— long time CC prof watching student learning drop off a cliff
November 26, 2024 at 1:51 AM
AI will achieve the same end that in centuries past was achieved by prohibiting whole classes of people from learning to read & write. You want a massive underclass of illiterate peasants & cannon fodder? AI is on it.
— long time CC prof watching student learning drop off a cliff
— long time CC prof watching student learning drop off a cliff
AI detection is an amazing scam. Like a company that tries to market itself to both the cops & the bad guys. "We help the police catch criminals! And we help criminals avoid being caught!" So if you get the free version but the baddies pay for the upgrade, they win! But if you go full premium...
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
AI detection is an amazing scam. Like a company that tries to market itself to both the cops & the bad guys. "We help the police catch criminals! And we help criminals avoid being caught!" So if you get the free version but the baddies pay for the upgrade, they win! But if you go full premium...
Unlike wine, the absolute best book costs no more than a mediocre one. So if you learn to appreciate fine writing, you’ll always be able to indulge. With wine, unless you’re rich, the more you learn to appreciate it, the more often you’ll be disappointed. That’s why I like books more than wine.
November 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Unlike wine, the absolute best book costs no more than a mediocre one. So if you learn to appreciate fine writing, you’ll always be able to indulge. With wine, unless you’re rich, the more you learn to appreciate it, the more often you’ll be disappointed. That’s why I like books more than wine.
"The hours do not exactly fly by in Peterson’s company. He will just not go easy on the Bible. Peterson wrestles and batters each clause until he’s pounded every possible allegorical meaning out of it, like he’s in the WWE of Biblical hermeneutics."
#JordanPeterson
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
#JordanPeterson
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review — rambling, hectoring and mad
The conservative polemicist’s new book is a bizarre study of the Bible featuring Jiminy Cricket, Harry Potter and Tinkerbell the porn fairy
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM
"The hours do not exactly fly by in Peterson’s company. He will just not go easy on the Bible. Peterson wrestles and batters each clause until he’s pounded every possible allegorical meaning out of it, like he’s in the WWE of Biblical hermeneutics."
#JordanPeterson
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
#JordanPeterson
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
@netflix you got a problem
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
@netflix you got a problem
Undisclosed location
November 15, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Undisclosed location
I think it's safe to say that the "legacy press" is simply non-functional at this point. Other solutions must be found.
What’s going on at the LA Times from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 AM
I think it's safe to say that the "legacy press" is simply non-functional at this point. Other solutions must be found.
He who can say he is on the darkest timeline
is not on the darkest timeline.
But we are damn close, that much seems clear.
is not on the darkest timeline.
But we are damn close, that much seems clear.
November 14, 2024 at 3:05 AM
He who can say he is on the darkest timeline
is not on the darkest timeline.
But we are damn close, that much seems clear.
is not on the darkest timeline.
But we are damn close, that much seems clear.
I can imagine someone saying this sort of thing about me. To quote a line from further down, autumn comes for all of us. Also winter.
devastating thing happened to me. checked in on an ex from grad school and immediately could see that contrary to what I believed he was not very talented
November 13, 2024 at 5:03 AM
I can imagine someone saying this sort of thing about me. To quote a line from further down, autumn comes for all of us. Also winter.