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Thinking about Aaron Swartz and Jason Arday this week.

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

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This is specifically why "just try it, just use it, give it a go, just take a hit" is a plea for you to experience the rush of acquisition and achievement without doing any of the work required to *actually* achieve something They want you to be as dazzled as they are, rather than assess quality

The people holding up the internet https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

In a world of Sam Altmans, be a Stanislav Pertrov. 🌅

switched kiosks. input the info. you truly cannot make this shit up

It’s another kind of grief, building and living in times of decline

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Spirit Airlines went under and left behind 500 million Teams messages. Google bid $10m. A startup building AI agents to work inside simulated companies bid $12.5m. Ten years of telling people to work out loud, and here we are. By me for @reworked.bsky.social www.reworked.co/collaboratio...

I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists

As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD."

Sanyo personal stereo equipment, 1984 ad.

New SaaS (Spam as a Service) just dropped

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

Layoffs in show business, layoffs in animation business, layoffs in design, in tech, in public sector jobs, large scale layoffs in academia, layoffs in

Full context on the Atlanta town hall not even 8 weeks ago where worker after worker warned about how past mergers had decimated their lives: newrepublic.com/article/2136...

*taps sign* Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

“the economy is a ‘wholly owned subsidiary’ of nature”

@jerthorp.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this ✨