Ann Hedonia

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I'd be a pretty meh follow, honestly; my only talent is appreciation. Love art, fiction, film, science.

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Remembering Bernard Herrmann on his birthday 🎂 📷 With John Barbirolli in a shot by Paul Popper, 1940s “Herrmann knew how lovely the dark should be, and he was at his best in rites of dismay, dark dreams, introspection, and the gloomy romance of loneliness.” - David Thomson

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❌ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ✅ A guy with money needs to get married. Everybody knows this.

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i've always loved the Terry Pratchett Boots Theory of socioeconomics but it's really striking now how it's slowly becoming inaccurate bc so many companies straight up do not make good products anymore. not even rich people can buy things that aren't designed to break in 3 years bc they don't exist

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I cannot emphasize enough - we have a global pathway to net zero. That pathway burns to cinders the moment we accept powering “AI” as an acceptable use of energy. Climate action is wholly incompatible with expansion of “AI”

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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

@histphilosophy.bsky.social

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Japanese dancer Michio Ito wearing fox mask designed by Edmund Dulac Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1915

I'm on social media because I appreciate the reasoned discourse on the arts

#philosphy

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

Throwback to twitter in its heyday

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THE ROBOTS ARE NOT COMING FOR YOUR JOB, MANAGEMENT IS, and this time they are using generative AI to do it. Understanding the *real* threat to jobs posed by OpenAI, Midjourney, and so on: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understand...

Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobswww.bloodinthemachine.com There will be no robot jobs apocalypse, but there's still plenty to worry about. How *will* generative AI impact our jobs?

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excuse me! Excuse Me!! did u know ur 300 character post making an insightful observation relevant to most people has...Exceptions?! worry not for i am here to explain

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this works because, at surface level, LLMs can actually pass the Turing test - the one thing they are incredible at (predictive language) matches it perfectly, and the Turing test has been the popular conception of "AI" which speaks more of the flaws of the Turing test than anything else

Calling LLMs "AI" and people buying in is one of the most successful marketing coups of our all time

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Calling LLMs "AI" and people buying in is one of the most successful marketing coups of our all time

Great album; great cover art: Grace Jones Nightclubbing

Like it or not, if you don't vote for Biden this year, you're helping to elect Trump. To prevent having to vote for "the lesser of evils" in the future, vote for progressives in local elections, help promote rank choice voting, etc. But vote for Biden this year.

Nail Communications | Dear Young People, Don't Vote | Hero Videowww.youtube.com This country belongs to whoever shows up. And do you know who shows up for every election? Old people. But only 46% of people18-34 years old voted in the last election. So the elderly have a disproportionate influence on our politics and our country. And a lot of them would like to keep it that way. If you want your voice to be heard, go to www.KnockThe.Vote for all the info you need to register and vote. This started as a passion project at Nail Communications. Thanks to the many who volunteered their time and talent to help bring this campaign to life. Especially Brooklyn Fire Proof for donating studio space, Hand Held Films for donation of Red Epic Dragon camera package, lenses and lighting and Final Frame, NYC for color conform and sound mixing. ABOUT NAIL COMMUNICATIONS Nail Communications is where every brand finds its fascinating. For more than 25 years, Nail has made award-winning advertising, design and branding work for regional, national and global brands. https://www.nail.cc/

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Undersea cable breaks “happen every other day, about 200 times a year. The reason websites continue to load...is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.” www.theverge.com/c/24070570/i...

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloatwww.theverge.com How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.

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This is a long-running grudge

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I wrote about this a few years ago

A fifth grader has paid off the entire meal debt, and then some, for his elementary school. In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken Kramer had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.” He wound up turning in a check for more than $7,300.

A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school’s meal debt | CNNwww.cnn.com Kids can now eat without breaking the piggy bank – at least, at Thomas Ultican Elementary School – thanks to fifth grader Daken Kramer.

The Dark Side of Good News - Dame Magazinewww.damemagazine.com In the days leading up to the holiday season, a heartwarming story suddenly appeared everywhere: A little girl in a city just a few miles from my hometown had sold cocoa and cookies in order to raise ...

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It's amazing we went from “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” to "Let our dumb as shit wrong answer machines help you fail your homework and learn nothing for the zero effort" in just fifty years.

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One of the greatest sentences in the English language.

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Non-gentle reminder that "helicopter" doesn't come from heli + copter but is a mashing of helico (like helix) and pter (wing, like in pterosaur)

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The Football Players by Henri Rousseau, 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137327

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"STEP 7: When your eggs achieve a frothy consistency that resembles the breakers at Mykonos at magic hour, stir in the dry ingredients." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

When a Recipe Says It’s “Quick and Easy”www.mcsweeneys.net Step 1 Go to your local specialty market that is more than five but less than twenty miles away to procure your ingredients. Step 2 Stop by the mea...

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May 18, 1980, 8:32 a.m. PDT