@nedraggett
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Altered Images debut LP
A good example of a record where, if you get a big fun single as a hook, you can do anything else you want for the rest of it. Here, a jittery, weird post-punk record w affinities to Siouxsie and Durutti Column and PiL
Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.
some amazing choices were made for that art
JOSH O'CONNOR AS DR MCARTHUR: I can't believe we're on the same flight
DENZEL WASHINGTON AS JAMES VANDERPUFF: Look, I didn't make you lose your medical license, your negligence did
KATE HUDSON AS PILOT CARGILL: I need you two to settle down, we're about to fly into the bermuda triangle!
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
(Polio. It's polio)
The say “I am alive” comic
I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn
The thagomizer, as well as zoomies, is an example of "this is an observable, unnamed trait/phenomenon; the first person who names it will usually see the name stick because people like it when things have names"
Since I have noticed this, it is now called the Birdian effect. Them's the rules sorry
Oh yeah, a beautiful thing. It’s towards the end of the second episode when a stegosaurus faces off with an allosaurus.
the late Thag Simmons would be proud
Ok, I’m just learning about this series, and even if I hadn’t loved dinosaurs with all of my heart since before I can remember, I would watch it just for Morgan Freeman saying “Thagomizer.”
It’s a small thing but in watching the new Netflix dinosaur series, a real delight — and a perfect way to immortalize Gary Larson’s brilliant comic neologism from _The Far Side_ now turned full technical term — lies in hearing Morgan Freeman sonorously declare the word “thagomizer.”
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
SURREAL FACT: Peter was beloved by Pink Floyd, so after he died, the members set up some funds for his children. That allowed Naomi to pursue acting. Without Pink Floyd making that decision we probably would not have "Mulholland Drive."
Maine - If you don't want your next Senator to possibly be a Nazi, then I would encourage you to follow and support @andrealaflamme.bsky.social .Please give this a boost folks!
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
Just in case--one of the most satisfying pieces I've ever worked on. A sterling example of mutual aid in action.
THOSE FEET
There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.
He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.
Hey here’s the key component:
**Human** consciousness
Is Claude a human?
Challenge solved.
The next senator for Maine. Help spread the word and boost her name ID!
Two-steppin' round the room: my new #WhyIsThisSongNo1? on @slate.com is about “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley’s country smash that’s improbably tops@pop—the 1st song by a woman to top #Hot100, Hot Country +Country Airplay (a decade after #Tomatogate). How did Ella go where even Dolly&Taylor couldn’t?
But the plasticity of story-telling etc
I’ve read loads about consciousness and loads about AI. both fields are absolutely fascinating. this is the question of an idiot.
Low paid workers in the global south are using AI translation to generate Wikipedia articles that, surprising no one, include errors and hallucinations.
404media.co/ai-translati...
Slow Crush, the pride of Belgian shoegaze, dropped a banger album not long ago & I wasn't excepting more new music, but!
#shoegaze
I get the sense surveillance pricing is going to be a pretty major political issue in the coming years.
Tech bro oligarch: The AI is... real... sentient.... it's feeling real feelings... we must do everything we can to protect it and give it rights
Also tech bro oligarch: Human females are basically cattle made to push out as many babies as possible, all of which I will neglect
A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”
Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.