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Charlie Loyd
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Unfortunately, this does count as a comment.
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A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
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Charlie Loyd
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Unfortunately, this does count as a comment.
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Charlie Loyd
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No questions or comments, please. Thank you!
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Charlie Loyd
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You’re on thin ice.
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Charlie Loyd
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Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a thoughtful observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!
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Charlie Loyd
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I keep hearing from friends that I haven’t been posting enough inflammatory, wordy memes.
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Seth D. Michaels
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the Trumpist dream is that every household, workplace, and state is its own fiefdom in which the head (a white man with money and/or guns) has free rein to impose on his underlings letting domestic abusers own guns, removing overtime rules, enabling states to ban abortion: all the same project
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Rose Eveleth
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I really do think that it's good to be correct and come into the argument with a clear understanding of the problem. But also if you try to correct people (even gently) they lose it and claim you're actually undermining the entire cause. I want to believe that getting it right is GOOD for the cause?
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Rose Eveleth
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A thing I really struggle with is when it's worth trying to correct people who are on the same side as me, and when it's not. People say the wildest shit on here, that is often completely inaccurate, and it's hard for me to tell when it's inaccurate in a harmful way, vs just kind of annoying.
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Charlie Loyd
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Charlie Loyd
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Opening my crafting menu and dragging Four Hours onto Pot Of Onions.
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Meredith Rose
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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Yvonne Lam
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I would like a website -- a google doc would be fine -- that connects news stories to activists/organizations working on related issues, volunteer opportunities, opportunities for public comment, etc. I'm not sure this is realistic, given how much news there is. But I want it.
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Charlie Loyd
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Anyway! I suggest that anyone who wants to use a water footprint framing go actually read up on water footprints, for example. I also suggest that if the only way you’re able to grasp this thread is as me justifying or apologizing for Google/whatever, you block me now to save us both some time.
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Charlie Loyd
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STEM paper: We made a simplifying assumption about how the world works and will get annoyed at anyone who questions it. Humanities paper (chuckling): We don’t do that here. Now to cite a dream a professor had after eating too much blue cheese at a conference in Marseille as if it’s an obvious fact.
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Charlie Loyd
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A lot of public discourse in my lifetime has been shaped by bad actors setting the terms of the debate slightly off the actual path of their evil plans. Build a private castle in the center of town by getting the council distracted in furious debates about whether its portcullis can be painted. Etc.
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Charlie Loyd
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It was beautiful how clearly people saw through the “a horrible crime wave is making retail impossible in coastal cities” PR push of a few years ago. I earnestly believe we could apply some of that same critical thinking and actually-checking-the-sources to scary stories that fit our preconceptions.
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Charlie Loyd
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Data center resource use is a big problem. The tech industry getting very weird about “AI” is a big problem. Stories about the resource use of “AI” that are so poorly contextualized that they are borderline intellectually dishonest are probably not how we get to a good solution.
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Charlie Loyd
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They should have a social media website with a quiet car.
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ceej
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trying to convince my wife to come watch the debate with me
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Peter
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i don’t mean to judge but i feel like a lot of you would benefit mentally and emotionally from simply not watching presidential debates
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Charlie Loyd
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Guy Salieri. Frosted tips, bowling shirt, hates Mozart. Sorry.
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Charlie Loyd
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Still grappling with how to present this work. I see three poles: a conversational blog post for laypeople, an academic paper for researchers, or inline comments for programmers. None of these feels like quite the shape of it.
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Helen Rosner
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Somehow the baby has confused “bat’riq” (Arabic for penguin) with “bless you”—but she also knows that “saha” is what you say in Arabic when a person sneezes. So, logically, she’s deduced that the English post-sneeze salutation is to heartily say “penguin!”
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Charlie Loyd
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Glue: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
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Charlie Loyd
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Shark: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
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Charlie Loyd
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Banana: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
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Charlie Loyd
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Never a bad day to go to the LOC prints & photographs site and type something random in the search box: www.loc.gov/pictures/
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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agreed - would also serve movements to spread some media literacy around how orchestrated propaganda campaigns are likely to exploit the statistical certainty of finding a convenient narrative-confirming example out of any sufficiently large movement
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Charlie Loyd
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More bluntly, I keep seeing ear-ringingly, mouth-puckeringly, eye-wateringly bad “AI” takes with motives I agree with. Stop doing that. Start having good takes with motives I agree with. Thank you.
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Charlie Loyd
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Eighteen months(?) into the Beaufort 11 discourse, I am still surprised when I see “AI” commentary that feels grounded in real life, that contextualizes its numbers, that feels honest about the kinds of technical details and human power relations that actually motivate its interest.
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Charlie Loyd
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There’s been a new round of interest in the Glaze/Nightshade stuff – I saw like five references to it on the weekend – and I really have to recommend that anyone excited about it read it closely and consider the responses to it. It may not be exactly what you want it to be. bsky.app/profile/vrub...
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Charlie Loyd
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Have renamed my three scratch-quality external SSDs from salp, Sablefish, and soestia to tuna, uaru, and varve, and it only took me three or four years of continual mistakes to convince me.
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Charlie Loyd
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Yeah, I’m saying cloture is a silly word and therefore, unable to handle this because they are used to having a monopoly on weird Law French French spellings of what should be ordinary words, they have “corrected” it.
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Charlie Loyd
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Americans spelling things in silly ways baffles and frightens the English. They have no recourse. It’s exactly like beating Pakistan in cricket.
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Charlie Loyd
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I did not, but I’ll look it up if I get the chance.
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Charlie Loyd
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The public elementary school on the weird island where I grew up needs students and teachers – I recommend it: sites.google.com/orcas.k12.wa...
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Charlie Loyd
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This curve will level out eventually, because such curves must in a finite world, and when it does, the usual outlets will frame it as “solar’s good times are over” or whatever. We’re living through some very bad things, but also one of the most widely beneficial rollouts of any technology ever.
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Charlie Loyd
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Every compostable grocery bag I’ve ever used has been an obvious op by the plastics industry.
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Erin Kissane
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oh no someone is saying dopey shit on the internet luckily all the BPA in the water has built a teflon coating on my brain to repel this knowledge
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Charlie Loyd
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I am still ringing like a bell from the idea of, like, being presented with a story about Ratko Mladić’s evil shenanigans illustrated by a cartoon of a dog saying “My therapist told me it’s because I’m adopted” and no explanation.
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Charlie Loyd
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They should invent a kind of article that you can read past the headline of and think critically about even when you support its rhetorical goals.
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Charlie Loyd
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memento morme
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Charlie Loyd
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An example to us all, if we would but see it.
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Charlie Loyd
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Oh, the usual thing of: how joyous and intellectually nourishing to see the foremost Anglophone humanities scholars come on here and shallowly read a shallow reading of software that does shallow reading, something something, TK punchline TK.
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Charlie Loyd
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Not great today, unfortunately, but still worth finishing.
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Charlie Loyd
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On my morning walk, sipping a cappuccino from the worker-owned co-op, enjoying the calm overcast, when I realized I had spent the last five minutes workshopping a mean joke about today’s awful LLM discourse. Time perhaps to adjust my online-ness.
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Charlie Loyd
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A big moment in my childhood, in which (like a lot of American kids) I read plenty of British books, was realizing that they didn’t actually say “er” – they said “uh” like normal people, but spelled it wrong.
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Charlie Loyd
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Charlie Loyd
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Some people I follow here would clearly prefer Mastodon, and vice versa, but I’m never telling.
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Charlie Loyd
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Actually, Kelsey, I’m 40.
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