This afternoon's reflection on AI and the dying internet.
Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency
Robin McDonald (my daughter’s partner) playing Blind Willie Johnson on a banjo from the era.
Love the video concept.
www.instagram.com/reel/DZU2dAI...
More AI slop buyers guide fountain pen bullshit.
"I've restored dozens of TWSBI ECOS over the years. The nibs are consistent, the feeds don't clog, and the piston rarely needs lubrication."
Really? What do you mean "restore" exactly? The model is only a decade old.
Just for the record, Bob’s still got it. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
And I guess if you’re Bob Dylan you can pull together a pretty tight band.
‘Lil bit of dirt mixed with tears
Car wheels on a gravel road
Lucinda Williams opening for Dylan right now. Eddie Vedder already showed up to join in. It’s a good night.
TECH BILLIONAIRES (rubbing hands together): "Let's buy beloved public institutions—and ruin them!"
ALTMAN (scoffs): "Noobs. I didn't have to *buy* the internet to ruin it."
BEZOS and WALTON look at one another across the empty main streets of a thousand American towns: "You nerds think too small."
Carl T. Bergstrom
Carl T. Bergstrom
Carl T. Bergstrom
Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.
