Dan Perkel

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate blank VHS cassette packaging design trends

Interviewing Users (2nd edition) by Steve Portigal is for anyone who is interested in finding out what makes their business tick and wants to learn how to interview and listen to people. But don't take our word for it—see what others have to say about it! rfld.me/3wUUV57

A deep dive into Sports Innovation Lab’s data cloud analyzed the population of sports fans with disabilities and found: -They are BIG sports fans -Their fandom is on the rise -They have immense purchasing power -They are HUGE fans of baseball Read more: hubs.la/Q02MVgbp0

@zephoria @notnaughtknot I suspect that this is not quite right, and that the real motivation is to be able to do away with, rather than have to control and make accommodations with, the 'lower orders'. Which of course include women (at least as satisfiers of sexual desires). But also dangerous /1

"[The obsession with AI] fundamentally has to do with power, and certainly with the power to make life... This is an expression of a uterus envy." - Joseph Weizenbaum, 1996

Such a useful sanity-check reminder from @emilymbender's #ACL2024 Presidential Address: *Language research* is itself interesting, independent of AI. Slides here: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers…

@thepressboxpod beyond strained, but made me laugh for some reason: sportsmediawatch.com/2024/08/venu-s…

@GailSimone Sold out at The Escapist is Berkeley

AUUUGH, it’s finally officially #UNCANNYXMENDAY! If you’re picking up the book, show your solidarity with the MIDNIGHT M hand signal, the secret hand gesture of mutants everywhere! Fingers loose, hanging down, thumb out, that’s it! WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR PHOTO, RECRUIT!

@TheAtlantic The Naked Gun comes in around 80

In an age when many films drag on for more than two hours, some viewers are left pining for the days of shorter runtimes. In The Atlantic Daily, writers and editors answer the question: What is your favorite 90-minute movie? theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

@thepressboxpod it’s not a headline but it’s a great strained book title amazon.com/Dice-Men-Dunge…

🟥My mom has a farm in Indiana 🟥I was born and raised in Ohio 🟥I lived in North Carolina for a decade 🟥I wrote a book about white conservative social movements 🟥But I learned a lot from other scholars of working-class white communities --> Read them instead of Vance - a🧵

With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety" nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (+ some contacts from old hands who know how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

@thepressboxpod @bryancurtis from the New Yorker, a strained pin headline: The N.F.L.’s Rear Guard Is Angry About the “Tush Push” newyorker.com/sports/sportin…

I never met him and yet his writing and thinking was so important to me for so many years. I read Art Worlds and a ton of his articles over and over again. This is sad news.

AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, & Scale Based on 20-min talk: youtu.be/spHB7IEFXbg Blog post version: rachel.fast.ai/posts/2023-05-… 2/

Our results echo the work of experts in the field of algorithmic bias, such as @SashaMTL, @Abebab, @timnitGebru, and @jovialjoy, who have been warning us that the biggest threats from AI are not human extinction but the potential for widening inequalities. 🧵 8/13

Here is another case study in how anthropomorphization feeds AI hype --- and now AI doomerism. vice.com/en/article/4a3…

@mulegirl Yep

The book I edited with @morgangames is finally out: it contains ten well-integrated essays on the history of algorithmic concepts and practices from the 1500s to the present. My heartfelt thanks to Morgan and to the contributors!

Writing is hard, drawing also. But what if I build website layouts with LEGO and then generate mockups with AI? cc @LEGO_Group