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PaulGrahamRaven

@PaulGrahamRaven@assemblag.es

Science fiction writer turned tech critic turned STS/critical futures academic turned consulting critical foresight practitioner and worldbuilder-for-hire. Resident in (and aspiring citizen of) Malmö, Sweden.

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ancient_catbus, to random
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the difference between the fictional RoboCop and real police officers is RoboCop is haunted by memories of life as a human being

rra, to Luddite
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I’m a (and So Can You!) by Tom Humberstone

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

Alt text by @accudio

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/im-a-luddite-alt-text/c

aworkinglibrary, to random
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We really haven’t learned a goddamn thing about female-gendered bots have we. (I wrote this eight fucking years ago.) https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/bots

aworkinglibrary,
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You cannot separate the ongoing fascination with creating femme AI servants from the ongoing efforts to restrict reproductive and trans rights. They are both part of a concerted effort to equate feminity with servitude, and to maintain caretaking as free and unwaged labor.

danhon, to random
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Generative AI will allow so many people to be creative, like designing your product to be just like a character from someone else's film!

smolwaffle, to random
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Yes

vruba, to random

A little free advice from crusty old Uncle Charlie: When an “AI” company (like any other company) says they have to stop doing something because the way they were doing it was dangerously good, our first reaction should be “wow, a PR strategy” and not “wow, it was TOO GOOD, imagine!”

HadasWeiss, to random
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“listen to your body”

my body: good morning. now hunch over & stare at the screen for 16 hrs

propagandacentralen, to random Swedish
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tef, to random
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not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

tef,
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moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

HadasWeiss, to random
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academia is just making mental notes of how you don’t want to act when you become a prof and then never becoming a prof

jasonpettus, to random
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Your occasional reminder that in a tech industry full of failed promises and customer exploitation, the only people TRULY benefiting are the sociopath employees hopping from one company to the next, destroying everything they touch before failing upwards to the next doomed project. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/anthropic-hires-instagram-co-founder-as-head-of-product/

HadasWeiss, to random
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performance-enhancing drug but for relaxing

seatek, to random
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🙇‍♂️

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

HadasWeiss, to random
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brain worm but it only eats the part that makes you worry

soundclamp, to random
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For , he truly made a dent in the universe. Fair winds and following seas.

HadasWeiss, to random
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editor: I believe the manuscript lies within your area of expertise

me: reads abstract fuck

rstevens, to random
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every day is a gift and i recommend hanging on to your receipt to see if you can return it

Julie, to ukteachers
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“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2el5hj2IJIZV8F8Hi-62KtCwuu2XTcElhuvuwa4yIXvglej21ZZbmbKVE_aem_ATF4R36NfLOkaspzyk_eDxbfTt9K0lpCFfs9yMgxC4L71c81MTUTb6tXPZD9XkEHLHvpabg17mjWVDTzLw-K1paj#lvwqz456tzz7ahrlip9

HadasWeiss, to random
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“author misrepresents the scholarship” ok but notice how well it supports my argument

pluralistic, to random
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Well that's a hell of a chart

https://www.ft.com/content/dc47c5f3-9bd4-4da0-a5cb-c795efd14c9c?accessToken=zwAGF77R-34okdPcR8Xzm9RNoNOly8eV79FMnA.MEUCIQDlzK8iKXqo2IyOBx3R95kEVglrA1-3Z4mV7SAgvpY71AIgFYrY0LX0A5YB_Wsm5EFBv08XfD1H5letjmzX-ZO_lw8&sharetype=gift&token=959a5d69-00b3-4117-b2cd-5231e1dccc9c

via @jjn1

https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-6-may-2024/39413/

cute_stuff, to random
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cringe: get diagnosed by a psychiatrist
based: become a writer and start including whatever's wrong with you into your novels until someone on the internet diagnoses your characters

mikemathia, to random
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danhon, to random
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Thinking about how many people in Star Trek's post-scarcity future would get an MFA in Holonovels

danhon,
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That one dude who hates immersive experiences for the guardian is gonna be so pissed when he wakes up in the future and gets out of that freezer

yetiinabox, to random
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Earlier today, I was in a meeting where one person called for co-production of governance structures together with a disempowered community that would be affected by these structures. Another person picked up on their point and said, yes, what we want is for them to "challenge, engage and inform our decisions". (My emphasis).

And I thought to myself: that is a textbook example of why consultation is not co-production.

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