In Tom Engelhardt’s 1991 essay that coined “screen time” as a moral panic, Paul Reubens is the chief villain. His description here of PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE is meant to be damning, but it accidentally turns into an account of the show’s brilliance. Creatures made of screens.
"By day 72 our souls were cracking. The distant horizon of the strike loomed long and large. But then the AMPTP f***ed up. Big time" https://t.co/qPCoDFxjNv
@BigMeanInternet It’s very good and has multiple memeable moments. With day-of-week inflation, this has situationally replaced “Lemon, it’s Wednesday” for me
The right's two demands are, first, we stop trying to reverse racial disadvantage, and second, we stop talking about race at all. Discrimination is the crime; race-blindness is the coverup. It's totalitarian in its insistence that reality be reconstructed to serve the powerful.
"I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera 1 in to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, & if he'd panned 1 in to the right, we would see the airport" - Sidney Lumet
This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.
The large no. of #ChatGPTfails wouldn't be worth mentioning if it weren't for the large no. of people who find an impressive non-failure and draw ill-advised conclusions about the model's suitability as a knowledge source. Here's me piling on. @mdahardy@GaryMarcus@MelMitchell1
Wish the discourse would judge AI/generative systems by how useful & accurate they are, rather than how convincing the output is on a lay inspection. The Turing Test was a thought experiment, not a utility metric. We have enough manual misinformation already without automating it
All of this isn't going away; the social graph, the brand, and the archive will have value in whatever fire sale concludes the arc.
But a product org is a living thing. A social scene is a living thing. You can't just kill and rehydrate it; it's going to come back different.
My prediction for this chapter of the bird site’s ownership journey was a sale within 18 months for <$15B, and I’m starting to feel like I need to revise both of those figures significantly downward
e.g. the feasibility of self-driving cars, everything about cryptocurrency, the length and severity of the COVID pandemic, the business and engineering skills of various celebrity industrialists...
This captures the idea why you can't build very large systems over a week even a trivial one where you have domain expertise. It takes time to understand the failure patterns of your design. Scale and usage patterns are out of your control. https://t.co/Q5mHQs3vrT