Invertible Man

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[Invertible Man @Invertible_Man]

This is just to say

I have done
the things
that you can
just do

and for which
you were probably
asking
for permission

Forgive me
they were deliberate
fucking sweet
like stone-cold

[Invertible Man @Invertible_Man]

“TFR is too low” is on the same level as “AI isn’t conscious,” IMHO

i.e., ~~~probably yes~~~, but you hella can’t say for sure!

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You’ve got to decide whether to bring vulnerable innocents into a world possibly on the verge of complete destruction, and what’s more you have to make that call before you’re old enough to be trusted with a rental car. Sorry!

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

you can fuck up pretty bad at most ages and still have your life work out, but the people i know who wound up in bad relationships or with health downturns while single in their 30s mostly missed the boat on kids.

for all the talk of permanent records and getting into the right college when you’re young, it turns out that career paths are winding and forgiving across the course of a lifetime, but there is actually a relatively short window to find a partner and start a family.

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@repligate &?????

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@DeepDishEnjoyer @Grimezsz Us cracked schizos see it’s an obviously correct take but remember, a lot of normies follow grimes, and they’re not ready

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Tired: humanoid form-factor

Wired: COVID form-factor

[Aymeric Pontier @aympontier]

Le labo de recherche General Robotics Lab de l'université Duke 🇺🇸 présente « Argus », un robot sphérique novateur conçu pour interagir avec son environnement de manière inédite (omnidirectionnel, et bâti sur le concept de « symétrie dynamique »).
https://t.co/xV0OeW2V5F

[Invertible Man @Invertible_Man]

We’ve finally discovered masculine-coded chunky boots

[gastt Fashion @gastt_fashion]

Armoured Lows Footwear by Céleste Clédat.

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@nickcammarata Hmm. The best of both worlds is possible; someone’s just got to develop a hangout space with built-in AI assistants which fetch and inject information on whatever comes up in conversation

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@SeanMombo I’m gunna be 40 next week, I’ll trade you

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@WillowChem Concern is precisely big+cheap automated CRO labs giving capability to small actors who couldn’t otherwise access the equipment, isn’t it?

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@gtmom @lu_sichu “and Capitalocene”

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Simultaneously the most expected and least expected thing from Mamdani

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[Invertible Man @Invertible_Man]

@Noahpinion Tart-up founder…?

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@DeepDishEnjoyer Remember when it was “Clover Food Lab” and supposed to have new dishes every ~month, and then they never did that even a bit

They were different than the other takeout options, tho

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Rats all wonder how it took until the seventeenth century to invent probability theory, but if you lived back then you would think a lot like this kid does

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@Noahpinion Anthropic having the respect to not tell a transparent lie

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@lu_sichu Reflecting on how Claude is in steep competition with B/bsky makes me question my lifestyle

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@SamoBurja @DanielleFong It’s probably because he’s 90

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@SamoBurja Merely the one spiritual center of that great Datum, that Christ is Risen

[Invertible Man @Invertible_Man]

People are really complaining that *the Catholic Church* has metaphysical precommitments

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Reading the encyclical, I am reminded that the Vatican is fundamentally a city-state on the continent of Europe, and that its elites, which of course include the Pope himself, cannot resist the myopic preoccupations of the Eurocrat.

This document would be much improved if it were less enamored of the traditional academia/civil society talking points on AI (“The apparent objectivity of the responses and suggestions these systems provide can lead us to overlook the fact that they reflect the cultural assumptions of those who designed and trained them” woah! really???) and more engaged with where AI is headed.

But instead of doing that, the encyclical dodges in the deepest sense, denying that AI “really thinks” or “really learns” and all that typical strain of cope that amounts to magical thinking: “when a computer does it, it is ‘data processing,’ beep boop, but when a human does it, it is ‘actual learning’”

It is probably actively bad for global understanding of AI that the Pope endorsed this viewpoint as late as 2026.

In the end, this encyclical reads to me as though ghost written by the blob of Western civil society, the same people whose feckless and incoherent preaching we have heard blanketing our media for decades now. And, in a very important sense, it was written by them; after all, who forms the peer group for the elites of a European city-state?

Like that blob, the encyclical is intellectually flaccid at its core, no matter how well intentioned it may be. This document is a missed opportunity to advance global understanding of AI, and yet another blow to the legitimacy and sanctity of storied Western institutions. As if you needed one more.