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Scott Common 𓅃
@nocommonswan.bsky.social
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Media & Coms Tutor, musician, ex-consultant, ex-gardening contractor, player of games, glass painter. Para-Luddite & Professional Amateur.𓅃 https://thek1500project.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@K1500Project https://dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com/
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · Nov 24
Hello new followers (nods at 𓅃). Here's a video to explain me - an 8 minute song of one riff with text to speech vocal arguing poetically the space industry is undercutting discourses of climate action. The video is made from a 1950s Frigidaire commercial and 60s NASA PR footage.
The Moon Is A Device For Giving Up
YouTube video by K1500Project
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 8m
"The sky was chock-full of carbon-dioxide, but on all the televisions the AIs made the sky look just fine."

*I've been working on that one for a while, but it needs to get a little punchier and more memorable before I ship it to my agent
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1h
This had always been the cut that I'd seen!

One of my favourite films full stop.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 21h
Me using the MBIE policy document on AI to demonstrate to my students why you shouldn't use AI to construct your reports.

"Look, idiots can be highly paid professionals"
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 22h
TIL Londo Mollari was, with Captain Sheridan, also in the original Tron movie
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 2d
Stargate SG-1 S4E02 The team encounter an alien species who seem friendly and need assistance in a world war. Turns out they're a eugenicist & white supremacy culture engaged in a proactive genocide which is why SG-1 mistook them for friendlies. Good ep, little subtext, very blunt. A-
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d
I tried to moderate my expression. “I’m not mad.” I was furious.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Wise choice (considering DJ culture was on the rise too!)
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Yeap everything flipped pretty quick with the rise of the networks. The financialization of the news industry (starting with the US) was really where a lot of this came from too - shifted news from a public good to a discourse lever.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah it's still relevant for a fair bit of the broadcast stuff - particularly in areas of the US, but convergence has really fucked up the flows which Chomsky (quite rightly) identified.

And it was an idea really aimed at those networks like CNN/FOX which held different power then.
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Stop Casting Porosity 𓅨 @stopcasting.bsky.social · 1d
Kitty!
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d
Boxes also work on bobcats
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Chomsky is okay but the work is a little out of date in the modern (online) environment. There has been some updates to the ideas - "Manufacturing Consensus" by Samuel Wooley does a pretty good job of modernizing some of the ideas.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Seconded!
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 1d
Curry Heaven in Newton is good for lunch. The Lamb Sabnam is excellent!
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 2d
Stargate SG-1 S4E02 The team encounter an alien species who seem friendly and need assistance in a world war. Turns out they're a eugenicist & white supremacy culture engaged in a proactive genocide which is why SG-1 mistook them for friendlies. Good ep, little subtext, very blunt. A-
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 3d
We don't read modern sci-fi to learn about the future right? We read sci-fi from the past to learn about right now.

(Also whatever happens to musicians blah blah...)
Mr. Judy turned the dial down. “This guy’s a customer of ours; he’s talking on one of our 900 lines, and he’s paying a buck per minute on his credit card.” Vanna examined another console. “It’s a VISA card. On a savings-and-loan from Colorado. Equifax checkout says it’s good.” “You’re running phone pornography?” Wolverine said, appalled. “Of course not,” Mr. Judy said. “You can’t really call it ‘pornography’ if there’s no oppression-of-women involved. Our 900 service is entirely cruelty- and exploitation-free!” Wolverine was skeptical. “What about that woman who’s talking on the phone, though? You can’t tell me she’s not being exploited.” “That’s the amazing beauty of it!” Mr. Judy declared. “There’s no real woman there at all! That voice is just a kind of Artificial Intelligence thing! It’s not ‘talking’ at all, really it’s just generating speech, using Marilyn Monroe’s voice mixed with Karen Carpenter’s. It’s all just digital, like on a CD.” “What?” said Wolverine. “I don’t understand.” Mr. Judy patted her console; the top was out of it, revealing a miniature urban high-rise of accelerator cards and plug-in modules. “This computer’s got a voice-recognition card. The software just picks words at random out of the customer’s own sick, pathetic rant! Whenever he stops for breath, it feeds a question back to him, using his own vocabulary. I mean, if he talks about shaved hamsters—or whatever his kink is—then it talks about shaved hamsters. The system knows how to construct sentences in English, but it doesn’t have to understand a single thing he says! All it does is claim to understand him.” “Every two or three minutes it stops and says really nice things to him off the hard disk,” Vanna said helpfully. “Kind of a flattery subroutine.” “And he doesn’t realize that?” “Nobody’s ever complained so far,” Vanna said. “We get men calling in steady, week after week!” “When it comes to men and sex, being human has never been part of the transaction,” Mr. Judy said.…
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 2d
Feels a little incongruous that this implies they'd have rhythm, and maybe even swing.*

[*Though this could also just imply the swing between work and home too, but that's boring]
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 3d
We don't read modern sci-fi to learn about the future right? We read sci-fi from the past to learn about right now.

(Also whatever happens to musicians blah blah...)
Mr. Judy turned the dial down. “This guy’s a customer of ours; he’s talking on one of our 900 lines, and he’s paying a buck per minute on his credit card.” Vanna examined another console. “It’s a VISA card. On a savings-and-loan from Colorado. Equifax checkout says it’s good.” “You’re running phone pornography?” Wolverine said, appalled. “Of course not,” Mr. Judy said. “You can’t really call it ‘pornography’ if there’s no oppression-of-women involved. Our 900 service is entirely cruelty- and exploitation-free!” Wolverine was skeptical. “What about that woman who’s talking on the phone, though? You can’t tell me she’s not being exploited.” “That’s the amazing beauty of it!” Mr. Judy declared. “There’s no real woman there at all! That voice is just a kind of Artificial Intelligence thing! It’s not ‘talking’ at all, really it’s just generating speech, using Marilyn Monroe’s voice mixed with Karen Carpenter’s. It’s all just digital, like on a CD.” “What?” said Wolverine. “I don’t understand.” Mr. Judy patted her console; the top was out of it, revealing a miniature urban high-rise of accelerator cards and plug-in modules. “This computer’s got a voice-recognition card. The software just picks words at random out of the customer’s own sick, pathetic rant! Whenever he stops for breath, it feeds a question back to him, using his own vocabulary. I mean, if he talks about shaved hamsters—or whatever his kink is—then it talks about shaved hamsters. The system knows how to construct sentences in English, but it doesn’t have to understand a single thing he says! All it does is claim to understand him.” “Every two or three minutes it stops and says really nice things to him off the hard disk,” Vanna said helpfully. “Kind of a flattery subroutine.” “And he doesn’t realize that?” “Nobody’s ever complained so far,” Vanna said. “We get men calling in steady, week after week!” “When it comes to men and sex, being human has never been part of the transaction,” Mr. Judy said.…
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Milly @millycenti.bsky.social · 3d
Umm, we don’t own a cat but look what cast up next to me on the couch after an afternoon of snoozing on the shed roof
#NotOurCat named Toast from 5 doors down
Neighbourhood #NotOurCat named a toast snoozing on the roof of the shed Same #NotOurCat named Toast (tabby and white tuxedo) snoozing on my couch
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 4d
Another one of those “oh shit” moments.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 4d
They talked about professional discourses around AI and the job market, peer / family & employer pressure to leverage it as a "do work" machine (frees up social time) and the actual agents inserting them into their workflow (AI integration into tools - adobe/copilot etc).
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 4d
Two of the papers I tutored this year had specific modules on AI and it was really interesting getting to hear students talking about AI and the pressures that it exerts on them to use it.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 4d
Actually they were trying to do a Cher piece at the local karaoke night.
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 5d
A rusty iron goat standing against an invested colour scheme suburban street. Feels apocalyptic.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d
This will make your weekend better
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A photo of a cat in a little superhero costume with the caption, "If you're feeling depressed or overwhelmed today, I just want you to know that David Dastmalchian adopted a stray cat that approached him during the Suicide Squad shoot in Panama. Then the costume designer made her a little Polka dot Man suit."
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Scott Common 𓅃 @nocommonswan.bsky.social · 4d
Random Acts of Senseless Literature
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