AI is comfortably in its NFT era

Max Weber has entered the chat

There was a period in the 70s & 80s like this also, when a lot of books in perfect binding used some glue that had a short shelf life—it dried, cracked, and kind of fell off, leaving the book a pile of paper. I've kept only one, an architecture guide to my hometown that's never been reprinted

The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs

Welcome to the vast majority of North American suburbs. For everyday fires it is no risk--that's why fire codes matter--but for large conflagrations (think forest fires) it can be disasterous--see Pacific Pallisades

"When sinulations are indistinguishable from reality, does reality even matter?"

In related news, I feel old.

I shall be posting this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged on my screen, and I—
I took the bait, I hit reply,
And that has made zero difference.

A heart to this post cannot possibly express the level of snickering and companionship I would want to convey....

Sounds like people who probably feel deeply threatened by Latour, or just never read him. Or just don't read outside their field. Or just don't read

And "accurate" is socially constructed, anyway, it's like absolute zero, you can't ever fully get there

Not that I want to give more money to the Google folks, but Youtube Music also allows playlists, including shared ones