Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor.

But unlike what I thought in the 90s ... He ended up being right.

There would be no one to admire him. I think his cap would be 7,900,000,000 people so that he still has some folks bloviate to.

Delta Airlines safety video YouTube video by Airline Safety Clips

This one is pretty good too. Delta's videos are really boring now.

youtu.be/M0FbMbyio1Q?...

Fair enough :)

Delta Safety Video YouTube video by Global Airline Safety Videos

And as others has noted, this was really innovative when it came out: youtu.be/eTkSYWVk0GE?...

Didn't Delta's Deltalina videos predate them? They began in 2008. They weren't trying as hard, but were among the first to break the serious tone?

Me too - for me, it was too big to lug around in a deflated state... and you can only use it in a window seat unless you really want to be an asshole to the two other people in the row.

For me, the winning combo is Komfort Kollar (RIP)+eye mask with padded sides+extra pillow+earplugs+ambien.

It's over. You will never again shake your head in disapproval!

But seriously: This happens to me once in a while and the only thing that works is moving the whole body. If you are able, go for walks, reorganize the bookshelf (reaching is good), swim, whatever makes you move in a familiar way.

This is a really easy decision.

Losing the DoD and its affiliated orgs as clients for two and a half years is a pittance in revenue loss compared to losing public trust long into the future.

Public trust is an AI company's most valuable asset.

Meta AI safety director lost control of her agent. It started deleting her emails “I violated it, you’re right to be upset,” OpenClaw to Meta AI safety director on inbox zeroing.

Once again it becomes clear that platforms are often run by people with engineering mindsets who know a lot about tech and nothing about life and reality.

Engineers need to be led by non-engineers or we're all gonna die.

Nej, UNDER, sguda.

Cuban forces shoot 4 dead on U.S. speedboat, Havana says The crew of the Florida-registered vessel opened fire on Cuban border agents, the country’s Interior Ministry said. Cuban forces returned fire.

Googling "Gulf of Tonkin incident".

wapo.st/4aOSsto

I've been thinking similar things, but could not express it this well.

AI Will Never Be Conscious In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

Michael Pollan argues that AIs will never be conscious because computers are not lime brains.

Building on that, AIs will never be conscious because they don't have a reason to develop consciousness. Our survival drive cannot be simulated.

Why not just let AIs be AIs and not human-like?

This is what happens when you buy your fascism on TEMU.

Google DeepMind is hiring psychologists now...but IDK if they are hiring enough.

artistic poster of a wolf and a hand and garlands of wildflowers; the text reads "March rent financial mutual aid needed. Supporting 11 families. Current goal: $7,000.00. Venmo: @Emma-Torzs"

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

Nope. She's teaching it to simulate moral capacity.

Incidentally, simulating moral capacity is a sociopathic trait.

Isn't he one of the original Russian oligarchs?

I hope I don't behave like that.

I also hope I never meet Prof. Gelernter in person.

Actually, he should be the one hoping we never meet in person.

Opinion | No, Billie Eilish, Americans are not thieves on stolen land Civilization depends on secure property titles, not sincere apologies.

Imagine taking to the opinion pages of large news org to demonstrate how good you are at completely missing the point.

An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war An internal document reveals Vietnam's military is preparing for a possible American war of aggression, viewing the U.S. as a "belligerent" power.

Time is a flatulent circle.

Cognitive deskilling in the wild. With almost no upside.

🤦

I like Rep. Moskowitz. But WTF is that jacket (other than just wrong)?

Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech President Donald Trump, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said no other country is in a position to defend Greenland but the United States.

TACO!

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

It's from a few days ago, but this is extraordinarily clear-eyed about the current state of AI:

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Once again, @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy explains the current AI moment with a clarity I can only admire as an educator.

This is going on my critical tech course syllabus.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

"Watch what he does, not what he says", as Rachel Maddow often says.

But one social media rant, and people can't look away from what he says.

Sigh.

Interesting! With regard to the whole epistemic Trojan Horse thing: I assume you know about the CASA framework, Sundar's machine heuristic, and how that tradition now informs HAII?