@markllobrera yeah I know how I'm passing the time during my mom's recovery from spinal surgery now lol
this extremely stupid little joke had me thinking about how good the infernal affairs movies were and I happened to be browsing criterion and they're all there!! amazing!!
just renewed grimoire.computer which I still think was a pretty cool project and will always be glad it introduced me to @Mer__edith
"NEPA rules don’t apply to space" is so cursed https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-environment-cell-towers-failures
Antifascists organising to protect a DQSH in honour oak need donations. Details: https://twitter.com/adacable/status/1653386916627087363
@ranjit WGA on strike over industry adoption of Inter Alia
will (the Hong Kong mafia movies) Infernal Affairs take your job
can Iowa read minds
what if Interior Architecture becomes too powerful
there's also this @brewsterkahle blog post from 2014: https://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/08/corporations-are-the-1st-generation-ais/
trying to figure out the origins/earliest reference to the clever observation that corporations are a form of "artificial intelligence"--the 2018 @cstross CCC talk comes up a lot in citations; I first heard it from @dymaxion in 2014 but years later she attributed it to Stross, so maybe he'd been working on it for a while before the 2018 CCC
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-18/ this week in sentences: brings love to bear, unrealistic expectations, magic potions, more than capable, nerds, bees
@TeamMidwest ooof for sure!! feel like in general a lotta academics fear the vulnerability that comes with being humble enough to admit to not knowing everything
@TeamMidwest also depending on the subject matter a lot of adults are pretty fucking bad on historical context, signed someone who explained internet infrastructure to a Financial Times columnist once
@cour13r5 just stuff I've read in the past week
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