I’m catching up on US political news regarding Kristi Noem. It betrays my partisanship in the dog-vs-cat culture war that I am far more sad about her goat.
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All the pearl-clutching exclamations “OMG the Rabbit R1 is just a computer running Android and using cloud services” is weird. Like, what did you think it was? A pocket-sized quantum computer? A living neural net grown from manipulated bunny DNA?
I've been slow to adopt the vocabulary of "genocide" to describe Netanyahu’s so-called war, But between the mass graves at Nasser, Jabalia refugee camp strikes, systematic destruction of living space by 8219 Commando, the flour massacre, and revelations about Lavender, I'm ready.
It's time to call this a genocide. Perhaps named after Ben-Gurion.
A parable of our decade in two pieces of nearly-identical hardware:
In 2012 we had the Descriptive Camera using Mechanical Turk, as a thought provoking student project and a blog post. https://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera
In 2024 we get the Poetry Camera using AI, with a slick website and signups for buying one. https://poetry.camera/
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So when a functioning democratic government like Brazil’s tells Musk to filter content, he not only refuses but attacks them. But when a strongman like Modi does, he quietly complies.
The sad little dictators gotta stick together, I guess.
I am adopting “ass lipped” as my preferred Trump insult.
https://mastodon.world/users/StillIRise1963/statuses/112317584812102659
How to destroy a computer: https://hans.gerwitz.com/2024/04/20/neoludd.html