Laura Foster

Currently enjoying other apps.

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

The anthropormophising of AI, the idea it has consciousness and agency - and can go 'rogue' - is an attempt to limit liability, optimise user engagement and maximise stock value

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

The more important ontological question, it seems to me, is whether AI would spontaneously produce works of art without prompts, given that, as some AI CEOs argue, they possess something like consciousness. If they did, their media would still be quite limited.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Paul is answering an aesthetic question when Leo asked an ontological one.

Ontology concerns what a thing is, and no amount of training data changes what a model is.

A painting requires a person who understands, intends, and creates.

Generated images come out of a process that predicts pixels, and richer inputs only sharpen the prediction.

A model trained on visual experience still lacks the one doing the experiencing itself.

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@MMmarco0 Non c’è stato un uragano ma una tempesta che negli Stati Uniti che si chiama un nor’easter ha fatto parecchi danni sulla costa atlantica. È un fenomeno associato con l’inverno. Molto strano. Tanta forza, Marco!

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@gmoult Comparative ‘20s parking garages! Here’s one in Rome

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@MMmarco0 Grazie, Marco! E ancora forza!

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@mcmansionhell Piranesian

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

I’m still trying to understand when universities acquired extraterritorial status for crimes committed on campus or by students. University administration should have nothing to do with the adjudication of crimes. The accused should be prosecuted without university interference.

[Cornell University @Cornell]

Cornell University supports the decision of the Tompkins County District Attorney to provide an opportunity for the victim’s story in the 2024 Chi Phi fraternity sexual assault case to be heard by a criminal grand jury.
Our statement: https://t.co/FIW8I8JYlU

[Cornell University @Cornell]

Cornell University supports the decision of the Tompkins County District Attorney to provide an opportunity for the victim’s story in the 2024 Chi Phi fraternity sexual assault case to be heard by a criminal grand jury.
Our statement: https://t.co/FIW8I8JYlU

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@MMmarco0 Grazie, Marco! E tanta forza!

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Ah yes, who could forget that North Carolina classic, The Andy Griffin Show? 😬

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@MMmarco0 Che bello sentirti! Sai che avrai un pubblico qui che ti aspetta quando sarà possibile riprendere le tue spiegazioni del meteo e del clima. Buona guarigione!

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

is anyone writing about the fact that the right wing government of dessau is threatening to demolish the bauhaus because they are antiwoke trad architecture guys who think it ruined the world --- because i feel like that's an important story!

[Nooshin Samimi نوشین صمیمی @nsamimi9]

As a woman who grew up in Iran, I understand why many Iranian women react so vehemently and viscerally to this gesture of solidarity. Encounters with the morality police were (and probably still are) an all-consuming part of women’s everyday lives in Iran. I completely understand their experience of the hijab as an instrument of state coercion and gendered restriction.

But as an anthropologist of the United States, I also understand the danger of importing that experience into Western contexts uncritically; without reckoning with what the same sign signifies in a different context. In the West, the hijab often indexes membership in marginalized Muslim minorities. Therefore, uncritical, universal anti-hijab critiques can easily reinforce Islamophobic and racist discourses.

The problem is not that Iranian women’s experience of the hijab is false. It is that the hijab’s meaning is neither portable nor universal: its social and political meaning changes with context.

As for this particular gesture of solidarity, these French women are correctly recognizing that the policing of women’s bodies takes different forms. Forcing a woman to wear the hijab and forcing her to remove it are different expressions of the same underlying claim: that others may decide what she can or cannot do with her body. A woman’s attire is hers to choose and so are all her other decisions concerning her bodily autonomy.

[rust belt roadtrip @gmoult]

turin is building the world’s coolest library in nervi’s padiglione agnelli

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@newyorker01 37 ventilato però

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Italian Comedians (ft. Pierrot the Clown), by Antoine Watteau, 1720, 📸 by Dan Mullan

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

@newyorker01 Sono assolutamente d’accordo! Secondo me dovrebbe lasciarla lì e allacciarla all’acqua. Come fontana accostata a Corso Vittorio non aveva nessun senso.

[Laura Foster @FosterLaura]

Absolutely incensed that this word is not recognized by Spelling Bee. And it’s a Pangram! @NYTGames

[Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome]

Hollywood star Robert De Niro to present Bernardo Bertolucci's classic film Novecento at free, open-air event in Rome on Monday night.
https://t.co/3AdtfX9QM4