lilithsaintcrow

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"A product of combined manual, mechanical, and computational labor, the leaves were produced on Lyon’s famed Jacquard looms, their text and imagery encoded in hundreds of thousands of punch cards that directed the weaving..." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lyon-woven-prayer-book/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

I hate to sound cranky, but "disabled by default" isn't enough. Recall will still be there, waiting to be turned on, waiting for Microsoft to re-enable it again--or something worse--the moment people look away. https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

For the lunch crowd: Before the Blackberry https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/before-the-blackberry/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"Churchill was the recipient of a missive containing the first ever usage of the oft-texted acronym “O.M.G.”." https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/oh-my-god-winston-churchill-received-the-first-ever-letter-containing-o-m-g-1917.html

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"Private equity is based on debt, which means the resulting quasi-monopolies are overly cautious and obsessed with short-term profits. As a result, the IP model became the dominant form of filmmaking in the 21st century." https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/haollywood-blockbuster-ip-addiction-box-office/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

Before the Blackberry https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/before-the-blackberry/

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

I thought pierogis would give me the strength for an evening's worth of work, but now draping myself over a warm rock and simply digesting sounds like the best use of my time.

lilithsaintcrow, 6 days ago to random

"This belief — that exponential growth is not just a reasonable expectation, but a requirement — is central to the core rot in the tech industry, and as these rapacious demands run into reality, the Rot-Com bubble has begun to deflate." https://www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

Not even 150 words today. Muse and I not quite at loggerheads but certainly not in tandem. Crawling back into bed seems the best possible strategy.

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

For the lunchtime crowd: Wiring and Movie Night https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/wiring-and-movie-night/

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

Me: "We have to deal with paying projects, or--"

Muse: "You don't understand, this is SHINY."

Me: "You can have fifteen minutes."

Muse: "Make it a half-hour before lunch and I promise--"

Me: "You think I'm new here? Quarter-hour, and it started two minutes ago."

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

Morning Walk Report: Every once in a while, Boxnoggin desires to test boundaries to make sure I still care, and today was that day. The presence of a dead squirrel on the sidewalk as well as crows wondering if I would still dispense peanuts while they taunted the poor dog didn't help, I'm sure.

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

"Almanacs in particular were essential to the popularization of astrology. These cheaply printed texts, varying in length from one sheet to dozens of pages, plotted major events of the upcoming year." https://lithub.com/how-astrology-helped-kings-and-commoners-alike-make-sense-of-the-world

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

Wiring and Movie Night https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/wiring-and-movie-night/

lilithsaintcrow, 6 days ago to random

Got a notification from Airtable that they're going all-in on that "AI" nonsense. The only thing I really used it for was the yearly reading log, but that's been exported now and I'll use a local spreadsheet.

So much goodwill is being lost by companies leaping on the plagiarism engine bandwagon.

lilithsaintcrow, 6 days ago to random

So I fell into watching "Dancing For the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult", and I am having a few thoughts about how the playbook for cult leaders, narcissists, and sociopaths (what a Venn diagram) is still super thin--pamphlet-sized!--but they use new tools whenever they can. https://www.netflix.com/title/81638162
1/5

lilithsaintcrow, 6 days ago to random

I will absolutely take the worst, gaudiest, most horrid amateurish Poser book cover created by an actual human over an "AI"-generated one any day.

And believe me, my friends, I have had some utter HOWLERS slapped on my poor books. Still exponentially better than plagiarism soup.

lilithsaintcrow, 3 days ago to random

Oh hey, RATTLESNAKE WIND (my love song to Wyoming, Baba Yaga, and the perils of growing up) is a Kindle Daily Deal today, $2.99 in ebook. https://www.amazon.com/Rattlesnake-Wind-Lilith-Saintcrow-ebook/dp/B0BHKVR3YR

lilithsaintcrow, 3 days ago to random

Am conscious and upright only under great protest this morning; these damn queries won't write themselves.

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"Procter & Gamble had prepared the dossier to combat this zombie rumor." https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/06/06/false-witnesses-revisited/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"While the medical profession had seen nothing wrong with tonics such as Coca-Cola advertising themselves to white, middle-class consumers for their aphrodisiac qualities, it became an entirely different matter when Black people used cocaine." https://daily.jstor.org/who-took-the-cocaine-out-of-coca-cola/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

"They call it the “Alice In Wonderland problem”, or AIW for short. The answer is obviously M+1, but these LLMs struggle with it. AIW causes collapse of reasoning in most state-of-the-art LLMs." https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/07/i-learned-how-to-do-this-on-star-trek/

lilithsaintcrow, 4 days ago to random

I don't know why the opening theme for the old Muppet Babies cartoon is stuck in my head, and am contemplating using the Ducktales one to chase it out.