Steve Dustcircle 🌹The Structural Necessity of #ThoughtControl: Why #Theocracy and #IntellectualFreedom Are #Logically Incompatible
This paper argues that #theocratic #governance and #intellectual #freedom are not merely in tension but logically incompatible.
getmischSomebody alert #Zamboni about the copyright infringement they're suffering. Conservative talking head D^ve Rub|n is selling "Moron Zamboni" T-shirts with an image of their famous ice resurfacing machine in use!
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#sue #cease & #desist #conservative #influencer #steals #intellectual #property for #profit
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Gregory Scheckler - Linger the Unknowns
"The imagination lets loose, dream-like, full of fictions borne of the inability to perceive through the darkness of night."
Sebastian Büttrich @ ITU#Trump has said that he loves the poorly educated.
Trying to remove barriers preventing #AI from causing further harm to #human #intellectual and #cognitive capacity thus is perfectly coherent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence
Gary Hall'The Independent #Intellectual vs #PostingZero and the #deadinternet' my short, ten minute introduction to SCREENSHOT BABEL, a workshop I ran with Ester Freider as part of The Cyberbaroque: A Neologism-Based Symposium, is now available on my Media Gifts blog:
Organised by Everyone is a Girl (EIAG) (https://everyoneisagirl.cargo.site/), and held at Anomalous in #London on November 20, 2025, the symposium explored the idea of the cyberbaroque allegory (https://everyoneisagirl.substack.com/p/i-lost-track-of-what-is-real-personas) through presentations, a reading, a workshop, and a film screening.
Alyx Woodward (she/her)But I do NOT want a system which fades away into two people fighting to the death over whose measurements are the correct ones. I thought we were supposed to have a more universal system than that.
So I say, the only way out of this impasse is to cast doubt upon the definition of *time* in this whole business. There's an internationally fixed and legislated unit of time, the second, based upon that hyperfine cesium transition. But since when is time a mere linear assembly of standard seconds? Isn't that an _approximation_, something adopted solely because it's good for practical predictions?
I say that the #science and #intellectual institutions of "Western civilization" have actually gotten themselves into a real mess in their handling of #time as a scientific quantity.
~Alyx (cont'd)
Radio AzureusThis is an interesting a well-crafted article
The title should be don't shove large language models down our throat.
True artificial intelligence is that what you have and your games, your simulators, etc which has been here for many many decades. This is large language model talk, a whole other Beast
Interesting read recommended
#LLM #AI #slop #large #language #model #programming #technology #theft #copying #yro #intellectual #property
https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/dont-push-ai-down-our-throats
WINGS_radio#ChatGPT #effect #unprecedented #changes #intellectual #framework #problem :
"three years into this #transformation, the obvious milestones matter less than the questions we have not yet answered. We are living through something unprecedented, and we may not yet have the intellectual framework to understand what comes next." - #ShellyPalmer https://shellypalmer.com/2025/11/three-years-of-chatgpt-now-the-hard-questions-begin/
Three Years of ChatGPT: Now the Hard Questions Begin
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT as a “research preview.” Five days later, one million people had signed up. Two months after that, it became one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history, with analysts estimating 100 million monthly active users by January 2023. Today, ChatGPT serves more than 800 million weekly users. More than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies report using OpenAI’s technology in some form. And after a recent secondary share sale that valued the company at around $500 billion, OpenAI is widely described as the most valuable startup in history. This is all true and worth noting. But three years into this transformation, the obvious milestones matter less than the questions we have not yet answered. We are living through something unprecedented, and we may not yet have the intellectual framework to understand what comes next.
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of #community within which #civility and the #intellectual and #moral life can be sustained through the new #darkages which are already upon us.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
NonilexThe debacle at the #HeritageFoundation illustrates the impossibility of abiding by the long-standing #intellectual values of open #debate & #truth-seeking while retaining any influence in a party led by Donald Trump.