Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@darius That’s flattering; I think of you as someone many steps ahead of me in thinking about such things.

@pwramsey Yeah, I don’t begrudge people in exploited positions using the bad system protectively, but I do hope we get around to fixing the system eventually.

I continue to feel that:

1. The “AI” companies’ PR is based in creating sense of inevitability, and people who don’t like what they’re doing feel bulldozed.

2. This bulldozed feeling is a goal of the PR strategy, because it manifests as anti-“AI” people pitching mostly poorly thought-out and easily dismissed arguments in desperation.

I say some version of this every six weeks and every six weeks I get three polite faves and that’s it, so discount as you see fit.

“The present IP system can be abused by actors powerful enough to abuse all of our legal systems, therefore we need a much more restrictive IP system” really isn’t clicking for me.

@migurski Just making sure I’m reading this right – heavy Yorkshire accent?

A simple but reliable cooking tip: reheat last night’s beans.

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the idea that ENSO doesn’t matter to the weather of the US’s west coast, but okay, in ERA5 anything beyond a small positive temperature correlation is lost in the noise: https://erikwkolstad.com/2023/06/21/an-atlas-of-seasonal-correlations-between-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-temperature-and-precipitation/

Just heard Ava DuVernay say in an interview that the reference she gave Bradford Young for “Selma” was Paul Fusco’s astonishing series of photos from RFK’s funeral train: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/paul-fusco-rfk-funeral-train/

I guess I’m glad YouTube shifted their comment algorithm to bring positive ones to the top, but it is slightly weird that everything I watch now has a first comment explaining that it’s the greatest human achievement and can never be surpassed.

Even fairly critical and intellectually ornery people sure do like saying things like “All the knowledge in the world is at our fingertips!” when I can’t, like, figure whether it’s reasonably ethical to buy coconut sugar without three hours of research deep enough that I start rolling my eyes when I see a certain author’s name come up. This isn’t even about LLMs or regular-style propaganda.

@urschrei @kb Oh, he wants one.

Fun to think of this from the perspective of a bit of information from a seismograph, which has a little window in which it can’t outrun the waves in the ground. https://everything.happens.horse/web/statuses/111310158612346614

@kb @urschrei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JegZhkDhrw

@kb @urschrei A clutch, but for vim? Not sure how to make this any more clear.

Felt it in North Oakland.