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Oversight, what is it?

2017 or so, one would have hoped

Photos: Releasing Animals Back Into Their Habitats - Recent images of the moment of release—when animals were reintroduced to their natural habitats after rehabilitation, or as part of repopulation efforts, or to help grow an ecosystem. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

I continue to be startled by the "writing is thinking" thing ("popular" among the anti-AI set). Is it, perhaps, a weird perversion of all the Derrida people read for decades? The pure-presence error of phonocentrism ironically became a pure-presence error of logocentrism?

The “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” puppet episode is an excellent excuse to revisit one of my favorite ideas for a show, Wyatt Cenac’s all-puppet show about “Star Trek” redshirts, “Yellowbellies”. Basically: “Lower Decks” before “Lower Decks” and a puppet episode before the puppet episode.

The confounding thing here is that they’ve got him dead to rights on the price of the salmon alone and then immediately scramble things by using the total cost of whole containers of the other ingredients.

Thought my lil Xteink ereader was a solid candidate for a pixel font and was delighted to find a great one designed by @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social. Look at how presh it is:

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Faygo in peace to love and serve the Lord

Is it slop or am I grumpy? (Also: 3D fauvism?) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“I’ve been telling my wife I have context rot for months”

Matteo was being driven mad by all the AI slop in the world around him. I invited him to sit thoughtfully with his discomfort. He went to an exhibit on fauvism at SFMOMA. And there he saw ... more AI 😓

Good grief. I'm not so naive that I view this as altogether different from human-written SEO or social-media bait, but the web really is just becoming synthetic swampland

Oh hey it’s @ludkmr.bsky.social on my radio

Seems worth resharing this: "an AI detector that is mostly reliable might in some ways be more dangerous than a broken one" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...