yatima
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A murderbot bog witch but, like, chill. Into hyperlocal ecosystems, library books and my cat. Black lives matter, protect trans kids.
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It's genuinely a colossal failure of state and society that we haven't obsessively digitized every archival object we possibly can.
It would cost a fuckton. It'd have colossal benefits for the whole goddamn world.
It would cost a fuckton. It'd have colossal benefits for the whole goddamn world.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It's genuinely a colossal failure of state and society that we haven't obsessively digitized every archival object we possibly can.
It would cost a fuckton. It'd have colossal benefits for the whole goddamn world.
It would cost a fuckton. It'd have colossal benefits for the whole goddamn world.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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YES.
Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!
Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!
This is specifically about AI use in humanities disciplines within academia, which is clear from context- this crap is extremely harmful in that setting. Inevitably, people show up to be like "AI finds cancer cells tho".
NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.
NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
YES.
Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!
Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!
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tilting my head like a dog
[alt: two photos in different boxing rings. top is jake paul, on his knees hugging the legs of his opponent. face kinda in the crotch. 2nd photo is andrew tate doing the same thing? weird??]
[alt: two photos in different boxing rings. top is jake paul, on his knees hugging the legs of his opponent. face kinda in the crotch. 2nd photo is andrew tate doing the same thing? weird??]
December 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
tilting my head like a dog
[alt: two photos in different boxing rings. top is jake paul, on his knees hugging the legs of his opponent. face kinda in the crotch. 2nd photo is andrew tate doing the same thing? weird??]
[alt: two photos in different boxing rings. top is jake paul, on his knees hugging the legs of his opponent. face kinda in the crotch. 2nd photo is andrew tate doing the same thing? weird??]
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Just write the thing.
What even is good?
Just write the thing.
What even is good?
Just write the thing.
December 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Just write the thing.
What even is good?
Just write the thing.
What even is good?
Just write the thing.
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Come join the Night Parade in San Francisco tomorrow. Lights, costumes, music, and LEDs celebrating the winter solstice. Starts at 5:30pm in Precita Park, then winds through the Mission toward Dolores. #sanfrancisco
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Come join the Night Parade in San Francisco tomorrow. Lights, costumes, music, and LEDs celebrating the winter solstice. Starts at 5:30pm in Precita Park, then winds through the Mission toward Dolores. #sanfrancisco
Proto by Laura Spinney is a bop but I can't wait for David W. Anthony's followup to his blockbuster The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, says me, a lay person enthralled with the fast moving field of Proto Indo European studies
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Proto by Laura Spinney is a bop but I can't wait for David W. Anthony's followup to his blockbuster The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, says me, a lay person enthralled with the fast moving field of Proto Indo European studies
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Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
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December 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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in retrospect, I am surprised I didn't have more panic attacks this year
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
in retrospect, I am surprised I didn't have more panic attacks this year
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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no joke, this is a realer issue than you even know if you touched grass in the late 2010s. Generative AI is just where NFT dudes went next, but AGI is a religious project to bring about the Singularity so our souls will be emulated forever in Computer Heaven.
I think we need a full accounting of which of the tech executives think Roko’s Basilisk is real I really think we deserve full transparency on which of them genuinely think they’re building a computer god who will punish them if it’s not built.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
no joke, this is a realer issue than you even know if you touched grass in the late 2010s. Generative AI is just where NFT dudes went next, but AGI is a religious project to bring about the Singularity so our souls will be emulated forever in Computer Heaven.
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please don't resign yourself to horror. please don't believe that a bad future is inevitable. please believe in and fight for a better future for everyone.
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
please don't resign yourself to horror. please don't believe that a bad future is inevitable. please believe in and fight for a better future for everyone.
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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
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For much of the Biden admin but especially in 2023-2024, the press/pundit narrative was heavy on economic vibes especially how lousy people felt about prices. Now prices are even higher & that vibe is DRAMATICALLY worse yet news coverage is not nearly as frenzied as it was before…
UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.
U.S MICHIGAN CONSUMER SENTIMENT (DEC) ACTUAL: 52.9 VS 53.3 PREVIOUS; EST 53.5
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For much of the Biden admin but especially in 2023-2024, the press/pundit narrative was heavy on economic vibes especially how lousy people felt about prices. Now prices are even higher & that vibe is DRAMATICALLY worse yet news coverage is not nearly as frenzied as it was before…
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Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
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-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
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I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
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This post by Olivia Roanhorse has been going around — thanks for flagging it @tiffmorris.bsky.social — and I can't stop thinking how broadly it applies (or needs to apply) to the publishing world.
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This post by Olivia Roanhorse has been going around — thanks for flagging it @tiffmorris.bsky.social — and I can't stop thinking how broadly it applies (or needs to apply) to the publishing world.
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Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
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