Russell E Taylor III

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Bicycles deliver the freedom auto ads promise, and look much better in ads for planning professionals than the little inset of what they'll actually have to deal with.

"Contemporary AI, as I argue in my book, is an assemblage for automatising administrative violence and amplifying austerity. ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."

@danmcquillan, 2023

https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

Couldn't agree more. We need a New Luddite movement against this latest spin on tech for making labour precarious.

#MOLE #AI #ChatGPT

@FknHannu @maddad

We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

Life, uh, finds a way
I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group
I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group
I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group
I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group
Fun:
✅ putt-putt
✅ driving range
❌ actual golf
Welp, that's a wrap on 47, the year in which I bit off a rather a lot. Here goes 48, in which I attempt to chew.

"Americans are baffled"? 🤦‍♀️

Really?

Not any of my comrades. We saw that coming from miles away. 🙄

Americans are so thoroughly brainwashed. I am happy to see it breaking more lately, but there are still far too many drinking the red white and blue cool aid.

Here are two graphs that show either how bad humans are at predicting the future OR, just possibly, how oil money can motivate reasoning to bend public & private investments to its will:
#TeamPacey wins, I guess?
Kinda wondering what the discussions at Adobe are like regarding their best-known file extension being an object of disdain in an entirely new way of late.