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today Language Machines is published - you can order it from @UMinnPress here: upress.umn.edu/9781517919320/… - here are some crucial surrounding writings 1/
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i study the history of knowledge and try to make some of it too; bylines @nytimes, @BostonGlobe, @the_point_mag, @jacobin
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part I of Cultural AI now up on Remarque's Youtube channel 1/
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@TheStalwart @DanielYCheng I did it for Kant. Dan did it for Simmel and is doing revisionist history about himself
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In the same way that (according to some people) the dollar’s global status has drawbacks for the American economy, I think English’s global status is both a blessing and a curse. Virtually everyone i encounter knows some English (good), but also I never learned a second language.
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Gonna get a house game going where anyone can bet on whether a given prompt to Codex outputs “goblins”
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An alien poking his alien gf the first time Jesus comes on the screen: “that’s Jesus”
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🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away pointing a powerful enough telescope at Earth right now would see the Roman Empire. They'd see Jesus alive.
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talked to Shane Yeoh on his new Second Orders podcast, probably the most wide-ranging of these conversations i've had so far, super fun
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i'm talking about Language Machines with @m_b_fazi, Emma Stamm, and Erik Voss up at Columbia on Thursday 1/
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@leifweatherby Would love to know if he was reading Ellroy alongside watching a bunch of Lynch
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read like 600 pages of 2666 in 3 days, feeling really bad inside
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@pourfairelevide The narrative technique hits peak there, although I think the final part was the most enjoyable to read
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have heard a lot of people say that The Part About the Crimes is boring or uneven or whatever, and they are 100% wrong — will be thinking about Klaus Haas forever
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@JeffreyKirkwood wait till you hear about the most non-fungible artworks of all
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The idea that artworks are fungible is ridiculous unless you only understand them in the most vulgar terms as potential objects in a contemporary market, which for a materialist with some sense of the historically specific conditions of their production is also ridiculous
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fun little historical fact: the English word “economy” actually derives from the Greek “Oikos” (οἶκος), a yogurt company
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kinda seems like Bell and Elarms-Orr were the consensus candidates for the 2 most-needed slots, but it was obvious they would fall and the other needs for the roster outweighed strong moves to get one or the other of these positions significantly higher. sorry but that's smart af
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we need more brave centrist Dems to bravely do moronic shit like this and lose to real leftists
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NEWS: Janet Mills has VETOED a first-in-the-nation bill that would have paused large data center projects, blocking Maine from becoming the first state to enact a statewide moratorium on AI infrastructure.
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