Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
Peter Whitewood
This is such a perfect example of what I mean by saying we live in a post-information world. A complete dissociation of the idea that information acts as evidence of reality instead of making its own reality that substitutes for the real.
oooooh someone is getting yelled at by the intergalactic council
Which way, etc
Also a note that it is a bunch of computer scientists and not historians or archivists making the claim confabulated data can ”fill archival gaps”. One of the author’s entire paper record looks like a research agenda to prove slop and confabulations are good and better than empirically grounded data
A problem with the rise of a global far right fascist culture as the new mainstream culture is that their culture largely involves hate-watching things to get them themselves worked up into a frothy and reactionary rage, and everybody else’s culture comes to mirror that too: hate-watching the haters
The altar of the death cult, in quantitative form
The SpaceX IPO really is a monument to Mammon and to the debasement and ruination of humanity under greed and supremacism, wrapped in the mantle of the Future
