John Baxindine

This is superb.

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm the car that a three-year-old boy backed into traffic on a busy road at rush hour. (I got the car into accessory mode, then neutral, and it started down the hill by itself. I pounded on the brake but I wasn't heavy enough to depress the pedal.)

What AI (LLM) boosters don't understand is that the use cases for LLMs are centered around people who know how to think, how to learn and how to say "I don't know". ChatGPT's public release in late 2022 was carcinogenic to thought

Humans not engaging in reasoned deliberation and who are relatively unskilled at critical thinking aren't proof against all humans having these innate capacities. We can't let Big Tech convince us otherwise. Literally, human life surviving this century depends on it.

It seems like there are ever greater reasons to write, and an ever diminishing reading public. A greater need for patience and deliberation, but only the appetite for furious cacophonies. And everywhere little princelings ruling over shattered, empty lands.

APICAL CATALEPTIC CLITIC 🐝

Agatha Christie John Creasey Ngaio Marsh Terry Pratchett Rex Stout

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

A journalist asks the essential question of our time:

Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

I owe it all to @bcdreyer.social.

They're on to me.

(picnic, lightning)

I got in the elevator and hit the down button. Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button. The elevator went up.

I walked out of Mee Noodle Shop on 9th Avenue in the pouring rain and turned to walk south, falling into step alongside a woman who was eating extremely wet pizza as she walked. It was Jane Lynch. I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza.

"As it happens, Columbia was founded in 1754 as King’s College. An imprudent choice now could result in the school becoming the de facto fief of an aspiring angry king." Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

This is one of my favorite "public" historical documents. Quite a few of my German ancestors lived in Philadelphia in 1776; this was surely the Declaration they read.

But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Trump and Musk have thrown a grenade into the national security apparatus and eventually it will go off. New piece w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com on the trust bomb hitting the invisible systems that make US foreign policy run. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A new JWST deep field. All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount>

#proofofcat #Caturday

that canceled TV series you'll never stop thinking about

the most dangerous place in the world is standing in between an NYT editor and an active verb with a clear object

A lovely #Roman sculpture of four adorable little puppies, all curled up asleep together! It was found in #Pompeii, probably more than 2000 years ago - AncientBlueSky

Ay, all of them

...and shit pay for (and treatment of) musicians. Not that anyone cares about that.

Reposting my reply here:

I wish you all joy of the worm.

Dune Deux.

If you see this, post a robot.

Autumn of the Patriarch, anyone?

The only work by Natalie Zemon Davis that I have read is The Return of Martin Guerre. It is a masterpiece not only of historical interpretation but of concision. (Naturally, the musical version removed everything that was interesting about the true story.)