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@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyIt occurs to me that thinking is not just a function of an individual—it is a group endeavour, practiced in conversation and dialogue, by subcultures, enterprises and committees, religions, cultures and nations. Often talk of neurodiversity focuses solely on the individual. It also occurs to me […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@davidgerard Gah, so much want to change "and blinking" to "unblinking"—which I think was the meaning. AI transcription, perhaps?
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy"The goal of education is not to tell students what to think, but to teach them how to think. It is to instill the capacity for moral choice and moral action."
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyI simply cannot express how disturbing I find the "Dude Wipes" phenomenon.
A product so grotesquely superfluous and needlessly gendered, so overpackaged and overmarketed, that I'd imagine it could only thrive in a childish, performative culture dominated in […]
![Photo in a supermarket. End-aisle display. "Dude Wipes DUMPkin spice, with clove, nutmeg and other fall stuff." Each pack declares, "48 flushable wipes".
SALE DUDE WIPES FLUSHABLE $9.99 ea."
[Brightly coloured plastic packaging in orange and black somewhat resembles battery packs or power tools.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oxdxjbckohwuxxq7uqm2b3oy/bafkreifrk6ycbmxsrdr62untdocnsmzm7ftljpexwldob3is7blfbyomhm@jpeg)
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@2legged @2legged I take your point—but what I'm saying is that the problem caused has to be attacked from the other end. Rather than starting from the macro—a budget bottom line, one needs to start from the micro—by ensuring that every detail is nailed down, and letting the overall cost will […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@2legged "View from orbit" statistics miss out on the fine details. And it's the fine details that we need to address. What is people's health span versus their lifespan?
How much did they earn from actually working, rather than capital investment? Were they taxed on passive income as much as […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyI am here, but I'm also on Bluesky. A year ago, the two platforms were quite comparable, in terms of the conversation. But now, I can see the quality of Bluesky visibly declining. There, daily, I am followed by fake or "broadcast only" accounts. I see any number of posts that are algorithmic in […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyWatching TV. #catsofmastodon 🐆
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@impfmilf Hello! 🐆
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@alberto_cottica Urgh, I feel your pain! During our project there was one point when I was digging underpinning bays myself. After three weeks of labour, I calculated, "Great! Three blocks done! Just sixty-nine to go!" At that stage I employed professionals for that task.
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyLooking at their responses in order to assess whether LLMs are self-aware is like looking in a mirror and trying to draw conclusions about what your reflection is thinking. It doesn't matter what it looks like. It matters how it works.
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyReposted by @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyLook, I know you haven't got 40 minutes to think about anything, let alone what technology is doing to us, psychologically.
But if you did, this would be a great primer.
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@alberto_cottica This looks like an ambitious project! I, too, have been involved with building work since 2020—a three and a half year renovation project. It was sufficiently successful that my wife and I were featured in the regional newspaper!
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyThe term "Free Software" has a technical meaning, beyond the obvious. It means "gratis", but also "open to all"—anyone is FREE to inspect and refactor the code. YOU don't need to know how—you need to know the policies of the people who do know how. AI attacks those policies and that knowledge.
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyLook, I know you haven't got 40 minutes to think about anything, let alone what technology is doing to us, psychologically.
But if you did, this would be a great primer.
@fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gyReposted by @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyA new report calling for an urgent probe into Reform UK’s extensive links with the UAE petrostate exposes a deeply troubling pattern. Hyping UK sovereignty while cozying up to autocratic foreign regimes to push fossil fuels is hypocritical. Why allow foreign influence? 🤔 #FBPE […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@alberto_cottica It's great to know others are thinking about similar issues. Let's make space for a chat in early course.
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@alberto_cottica There's lots to talk about here! Presumably you're aware of the (presentationally populist, but analytically interesting) podcast work of SF critic Damien Walter? And, of course, that of Cory Doctorow, (who was very helpful with of one of my Kickstarter projects)? I'm currently […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@sundogplanets I have a similar issue with a neighbour. He's a landlord, and seems to think that illuminating not only his building's car park, but also the stories above it, contributes to security. His blazing lights certainly disrupt bats, and niggles me if I'm in an upper room at night. I […]
@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@alberto_cottica Fascinated to see that you, too, have an interest in science fiction. Not "just a hobby", the realm of the imagination may be a key route to reclaiming agency from the oligarchs. https://tldr.nettime.org/@lowtech/116185877417634512
