Notes in 2023

  • You don’t eat an elephant in one bite.

  • Silence is the space in which one awakens, and the noisy mind is the space in which one remains asleep. If your mind continues chattering, you are asleep.

  • Resist colonial power by any means necessary. New York City Bus driver

  • ChatGPT is making the information problem paradigm so much worse. Instead of the hands of someone who architected the information, it will be lost into a black box of garage.

  • The ethics of the passerby: This experience of presence and distance, of solidarity and detachment, but never indifference.

  • The juice is not worth the squeeze,“ she said. “Especially in corporate America.”

  • The new shit-generator, Gemini, is more efficient at making shit than the previous shit-generator, [sarcasm] aren’t I lucky?

  • For over 30 years, British forces killed and tortured Palestinians, and demolished their homes as collective punishment.

  • I’m generally against genocide, because it’s, you know, a lot of murders. Yes, this includes the current genocide of Palestinians. #CeaseFire

  • I’d like to see ALL the surveillance footage from the Matanzas High School incident. The current narrative regarding Brendan Depa’s actions are too blatantly racist. Show me Joan Naydich in the 30 minutes before.

  • In contemporary AI, White Sumpremacy is creating a new kind of enemy. One that only White Sumpremacy can supposedly defeat. This of course, is not true.

  • As part of anti-racist work, I think we need to imagine new ways of belonging.

  • Our outrage is not equal; You wish for some people to be less than human. I wish for all of us to be human, which includes you.

  • There’s no such things as a good guy with a gun. It’s a murder tool, that is all it is designed to do.

  • “This is a historical building,” they say, but to whom does that history belong because it’s not mine.

  • A human of digital and plastic.

  • I would like freedom of self-expression and self-realisation. I want the gift of an autonomous existence.

  • Vaping (Juul etc) is Big Tobacco 2.0. There’s no difference.

  • Rich people count money that they haven’t made yet but wanted to make as money they have lost. Maggie Mae Fish

  • Micro-decluttering. Isn’t that just fucking tidying up after yourself but with a contemporary self-help twist on it?

  • The National Information Technology Administration doesn’t exist, but perhaps it should. Though apparently we have an Agency.

  • Checklists are powerful tools, often reduced to the point where they don’t work as intended.

  • You can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us. Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Admiring retro software is like admiring the architecture of a classic building while forgetting that it’s a condemned deathtrap and every other building like it burned down, killing every inhabitant. Baldur Bjarnason, Out of the Software Crisis

  • James Parnell Spears, what a despicable human being.

  • Billionaires are the biggest threat to humanity.

  • Large Language Models (LLM) are inherently racist. They cannot be fixed without addressing centuries of societal racism first.

  • Please let the record show that I hate AI-generated art simply for how it looks. Just awful, awful.

  • AI must be treated as urgently as climate crisis says man who is literally still developing the fucking AI.

  • You’re acknowledging the land, how about ceding it?

  • I’m a prison-industrial-complex (PIC) abolitionist. I want to get rid of policing, imprisonment, and surveillance.

  • https://www.creative-interventions.org/

  • The Republic of England has got a ring to it.

  • Today I learned (TIL): 88% of hearing parents to D/deaf children don’t sign at home. In other words, 88% of hearing parents are absolute fucking dickheads.

  • Oh, I’m sorry you don’t have clean drinking water. No you can’t have any. You see, Google and Microsoft need the water to teach the machines how to oppress you faster.

  • It’s terrifying and fascinating watching contemporary Nostradamus-level fictionising happening in real time. Apes are deluded.

  • Influencer, or cult leader in the making?

  • Why are you people so horny for AI?

  • Perhaps the depth of love can be measured by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. unknown Tumblr post

  • The Unfanney Valley—where movies tries to please fans too hard but can’t (obviously) actually capture the nostalgia of entropy, so fans end up hating it even more

  • Dick move Unity, dick move.

  • Pain without meaning becomes suffering.

    Do I believe this? Not sure.

  • Roblox is exploiting children and child labour.

  • Let our wounds scar in good-looking ways. Erica Freas

  • I’m not happy about having to Google who Chuck Schumer is, only to find out he’s a 72-year-old fart who’s getting all the AI-oil peddlers together for a “forum”.

  • If I am to believe a random Reddit, I am now the 7th person to spot the hi-vis vest in Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.

  • The voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia

  • Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (from ‘Titanic’) / Singing Guitar by AZ

  • You need to decide what is enough for you so that you can stop trying to win a make-believe competition in your mind.

  • Any change, no matter how positive, will be uncomfortable until it is also familiar.

  • The Metaverse is Roblox expect so much much worse.

  • AI generated pixels isn’t art. It’s the husk of our remains with all our humanity ripped away.

  • We need to achieve actual body positivity, instead of the banal, corporatized, self-absorbed version. Rachel Pick

  • Hannah Gadsby reducing Picasso’s work just like he reduced women, such as Marie-Thérèse Walter, seems like pretty spot-on curation.

  • Preppers are just wilderness cosplayers.

  • It’s not really lived experiences though is it? It’s living.

  • […] art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. Vladimir Nabokov

  • We are writing to let you know that your IFFTT-to-Twitter Applet has been disconnected.

  • What is fate and I asking of my soul?

  • Me: Looks at the current state of the web through the lens of #accessibility. What with it being #GAAD and everything. Also me: “Still shit I see.”

  • Finland was robbed some say. You know who was robbed, Daði Freyr. https://youtu.be/SZMZAJjciTg #eurovision

  • Now I’m taking the recycling out instead.

  • One day I will be able to tell my grandchildren that: Yes, I did indeed attend the coronation of Charles III—by which I mean I streamed it on Youtube and read Buzzfeed articles at the same time.

  • why would you WANT to automate one of the most life-affirming acts we can undertake and one of our few balms against entropy and the void of isolation? what is the point of removing the human element from human expression? Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

  • Fuck off Charley the Turd.

  • Having unfinished things is a big part of the process. Trent, Miscast

  • Wait, you guys buy your jeans already distressed?

  • I am cursed to understand and witness other people not understanding each other, or even understanding that they aren’t understanding each other.

  • The more I hear about Diablo IV, the less I want to play it. “You liked Grinding? Well, we’re introducing Nightmare Grinding with Skinner Box Deluxe!”

  • What do I owe to my future selves?

  • One of the many failures of all current Large Language Model (LLM) works are that they are fundamentally unscientific in their approach.

  • It’s fabrications, not hallucinations. It isn’t sentient.

  • I don’t actually believe in Cartesian dualism btw.

  • Are you ready for “hyper-efficient content creation, highly personalized marketing, [and] more streamlined customer service operations”? Are you ready to become the ghosts in the machines?

  • Democratise everything!

  • Imagine never queuing on the phone again but instead you’re having to argue with an AI chatbot about your right to live.

  • Once you monetize your own authenticity, is it still authentic?

  • Dr Joan Meyer is the first “author” I’ve found with books everywhere who’s clearly AI-written nonsense. 175 books across dozens of platforms so far. It will get worse.

  • Well worth your time today: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/ai-in-health-and-summaries/

  • Proposal to call it in-beefro.

  • Police are government-sanctioned enforcers of white supremacy, nothing more.

  • GPT-4 is a great execution of a horrible idea. Just stop. Stop all of it now. Do not feed the machine.

  • You call it intelligence, I call it artificial ignorance. At least our abbreviation remains the same.

  • And there he stood in front of the new God he’d created, “Thousand Fingers, I think I’ll call you.”

  • At this point, I have to work from the assumption that I too, am in fact, an out-of-touch white guy who shouldn’t be in charge of anything.

  • “This is the year I finish writing some fucking songs,” he says and starts 6 new ones.

  • Red matter huh? Okay, let’s see.

  • “AIhole,” as in, “what an AIhole!” People who use ChatGPT to send emails that no one reads anyway.

  • What a year to be alive: watching a DIY Youtuber 3D print their own prosthetic finger.

  • It’s been a week since I deleted my Instagram and Twitter apps—oh wait, no, it’s just day 3. Fuck.

  • Day two of deleting both Instagram and Twitter apps from my phone.

  • Is it “normal” to hear the toothbrush charger when it’s plugged in, through the wall? #neurodivergent

  • Did you have “Coca-Cola makes your balls bigger” on this year’s bingo card? 🤣

  • I hate open-world survival games. So fucking boring.

  • Enjoying the passage of time .Jimmy Carr, on the meaning of life

  • Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.

  • Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922

  • That’s the thing about people who haven’t been loved much[…] They don’t ask for love, they search for it everywhere. https://www.tumblr.com/kurja-tales/668622721698217984/thats-the-thing-about-people-who-havent-been

  • Are you having an “easy peasy lemon squeezy” day, or a “stressed depressed lemon zest” day?

  • Having only just now started and finished watching Schitt’s Creek—I love it!

  • Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. Fred Brooks

  • Once you commit to anything you then have a vested interest in the outcome. Humans are bad at predicting futures that don’t benefit them

  • Eugenics, again. #StopSpectrum10k

  • Fundamentally, am I able to receive the love from anyone, if I’m not also giving it to myself?

  • Three sentences into bell hook’s All About Love and I can see what a gut-punch of recognition this is going contain.

  • Sex work is work. It’s fucking work.

  • In our White Supremacist Capitalist Ableist Patriarchal society, the first act of activism is staying alive.

  • Self diagnosis is valid.

  • I fucking hate kinetic captions as actual captions. Thanks a lot, I was actually trying to read that my saccades don’t work like that.

  • Feminism is how I add back the details of my humanity that patriarchy stole from me.

  • IQ as a thing, is racist as fuck to begin with. It is a eugenicist construct.

  • I’m not interested in rugged individualism. I want to plant and nurture relationships and communities.

  • “The great thing about a good book, is that I might not be ready for it now. But when I am, it will always be ready for me.” I think as I return to finish Braiding Sweetgrass.

  • “Slow down,” I remind myself. “Slower still.”

  • Feelings are not facts. Emotions are not my identity. They are moments flowing through me that I don’t always know what the fuck to do with.

  • I’m often hindered by the obstacles presented by your lack of imagination, not mine. Anti-ableist work is possible.

  • Remember to speak from the scar, not the wound. @DrBlackDeer, Tweet

  • Hatred is not given; it is a struggle to acquire hatred, which has to be dragged into being, clashing with acknowledged guilt complexes. Black Skin, White Masks