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ryanbooker, 1 year ago to random

I still don’t understand how anyone could have ever even looked at Santos and thought he was legit?

bazscott, 1 year ago to random

This is absolutely disgusting. Organisations that are among the richest in the world want bailed out - fuck that!

Isn't it curious how capitalism is so amazing that socialism needs to bail it out constantly when it completely fails.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/11/state-governments-forced-to-indemnify-church-bodies-for-child-abuse-due-to-insurance-market-failure

grammargirl, 1 year ago to random

The word "hill" just started looking weird and unwordlike to me. I hate it when that happens!

#AmEditing

mcnees, 1 year ago to random

This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

nesevis, 1 year ago to random

“I think we need to dig into what is happening here, which is that, when faced with a system that presents itself as a listening, eager interlocutor that’s hearing us and responding to us, that we seem to fall into a kind of trance in relation to these systems, and almost counterfactually engage in some kind of wish fulfillment: thinking that they’re human, and there’s someone there listening to us.”

@Mer__edith on LLMs: https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

adamgreenfield, 1 year ago to random

Erin Kissane is one of our best. I don’t quite agree with her synthesis/conclusion, but if you enjoy the things I post about here, I’m willing to bet you’ll derive still greater pleasure from seeing many of those same concepts more thoughtfully elucidated, given space to breathe and brought into fructifying alignment with one another. https://erinkissane.com/patterns-prophets-and-priests

RobW, 1 year ago to random

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tonyarnold, 1 year ago to random

Oof. This morning, the battery in the car seems dead.

I guess that's expected, given it was off the road waiting for parts for 8 months of the past 12.

Traaaain roll on!

sommer, 1 year ago to random

Never. Coming. Back. #Norway

These photos are from my first day here in the small town of Ålesund.

A landscape view from a high elevation, overlooking a still body of water with small scattered islands in it. Above, the sky is full of long, white wisps of clouds, giving the effect of motion even in the stillness. The tops of wintered trees creep up into the bottom of the frame.
A landscape shop from elevation over trees. Still blue body of water separates the trees of the foreground from the white mountains in the background. In the shadow of the mountains is a small town with little red and white houses scattered across it.
White and brightly colored, red and yellow art nouveau buildings line a placid, deep blue inlet of water. Docked along either side of the inlet are sailing vessels. The sky is clear and bold, and mountains emerge subtly in the background.

tonyarnold, 1 year ago to random

I finally got my car back yesterday after over four months at the smash repairers. Brand new tyres, completely new back half of the car.

I’d been waiting for the curse to kick back in, and sure enough, Leah just sent me this in a message:

gregeganSF, 1 year ago to random

My new collection, SLEEP AND THE SOUL, is now available. You can get it as an eBook from most venues, or as print-on-demand from Amazon.

This collection includes the story “Solidity”, a current finalist in the Locus Awards for best novelette of 2022.

https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Ebooks.html#SleepAndTheSoul

nesevis, 1 year ago to random

(Fondly?) Remembering Hulk Hogan’s 1994 TV show “Thunder in Paradise”, an unholy union of themes from Knight Rider, Airwolf and Baywatch.

Hulk Hogan and his co-star Chris Lemmon, posing back-to-back while wielding comically excessive guns, while wearing militaresque clothes and a 1990s call centre-like headset. We stand ready to take your call!