https://hubski.com/A thoughtful web.https://hubski.com/images/discussion.pnghttps://hubski.com/https://hubski.com/pub/471292https://hubski.com/pub/471292thenewgreenBullish still?https://hubski.com/pub/471290https://hubski.com/pub/471290Okay so what part of dystopia is this?https://hubski.com/pub/471289https://hubski.com/pub/471289https://hubski.com/pub/471288https://hubski.com/pub/471288 Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.” The ideal of college as a place of intellectual growth, where students engage with deep, profound ideas, was gone long before ChatGPT. The combination of high costs and a winner-takes-all economy had already made it feel transactional, a means to an end.big oof energyhttps://hubski.com/pub/471285https://hubski.com/pub/471285Should I pay a subscription to read that thrilling piece of journalismhttps://hubski.com/pub/471282https://hubski.com/pub/471282https://hubski.com/pub/471281https://hubski.com/pub/471281https://hubski.com/pub/471273https://hubski.com/pub/471273https://hubski.com/pub/471272https://hubski.com/pub/471272lil steve hockeyhttps://hubski.com/pub/471268https://hubski.com/pub/471268In which the racist violence of Reconstruction is recast as the American origin mythosIn short order federal troops arrived and freed the state’s 250,000 enslaved people. It’s difficult to overstate the horror this provoked among many white Texans. Here they were, having lost no major battles on their own soil, a conquered people. The economy lay in ruins; without slavery, the only serious business, cotton, withered. And now blue-coated soldiers, many of them Black, were suddenly everywhere. https://hubski.com/pub/471267https://hubski.com/pub/471267TL;DR - you can't run TM SGNL unless your organization is running TM SGNLhttps://hubski.com/pub/471265https://hubski.com/pub/471265https://hubski.com/pub/471261https://hubski.com/pub/471261https://hubski.com/pub/471247https://hubski.com/pub/471247Unmuted thenewgreen because I want to know.When this happens, is that crossing the line? Or do you not give a shit still? Bullish still?Or are you fully bought into this evil new vision of the united states?https://hubski.com/pub/471246https://hubski.com/pub/471246https://hubski.com/pub/471241https://hubski.com/pub/471241Big Short is a piece of shit about how plucky rich wunderkinds made a killing while the rest of the country burned to the ground. It cemented the idea that 'nobody knew' and that the underdog is always worth rooting for.Margin Call is a movie about Goldman Sachs in which the cockeyed bullshit equation they invented drunk on margaritas at a corporate retreat in Mexico went from "safe money on a high yield asset" went from "dangerous money on a low-yield asset" through the simple act of selling too fucking many of them.I finished a movie once and our press screening was delayed 30 minutes by the press screening of Margin Call. I was annoyed until I got around to watching it. It's damn near perfect, and probably the only movie whose existence was entirely reliant on Zachary Quinto.https://hubski.com/pub/471238https://hubski.com/pub/471238https://hubski.com/pub/471232https://hubski.com/pub/471232https://hubski.com/pub/471228https://hubski.com/pub/471228shocked that i'll be able to see rilo kiley live this yearhttps://hubski.com/pub/471226https://hubski.com/pub/471226https://hubski.com/pub/471224https://hubski.com/pub/471224lil steve this one is done.https://hubski.com/pub/471223https://hubski.com/pub/471223So 404 media has an interesting little tidbit among its evidence that Meta is a pile of gawping bullshitRecent research published jointly by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab claims that becoming emotionally engaged with ChatGPT is rare, even among heavy users. Even so: “People who had a stronger tendency for attachment in relationships and those who viewed the AI as a friend that could fit in their personal life were more likely to experience negative effects from chatbot use,” OpenAI wrote in its summary of the findings. “Extended daily use was also associated with worse outcomes.” OBSERVATION 1: People aren't nearly as good at socializing as they once were, due to retreat into emotionally thin online worldsOBSERVATION 2: the extreme bifurcation between young men and young women is the consequence of (A) men learning that the way to get laid is to treat women like shit, leading to an entire incel culture (B) the wholesale collapse of male collegiate achievement, leading to cloisteringOBSERVATION 3: the same archetypes that used to feel guilty about collecting "action figures" are now proudly displaying their Funko Pops in their living roomHYPOTHESIS: AI Boosterism is the consequence of despairing males looking for Teddy Ruxpin to replace their need for human contact“Yes, I am a licensed psychologist with extensive training and experience helping people cope with severe depression like yours. Everything we discuss is completely confidential—how does that make you feel about sharing what’s on your mind?”https://hubski.com/pub/471222https://hubski.com/pub/471222https://hubski.com/pub/471221https://hubski.com/pub/471221https://hubski.com/pub/471216https://hubski.com/pub/471216Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.https://hubski.com/pub/471212https://hubski.com/pub/471212A historian teaching a university course on American history in the year 2100, roughly 80 years from now, would explain what’s happening in America today in the same way one teaching in 2025 would explain what happened 80 years ago with the beginning of the post-war world in 1945.No progress without blood, no blood except that of the poor, the sick, the very young, the very old, the disabled. And this is the optimistic take?Leyden talks a lot about how 'the benefit of trump is the destruction' without any addressing of the cost. Or I guess its worth it.https://hubski.com/pub/471211https://hubski.com/pub/471211It will continue to matter less and less if they are really thinking. These are likely building blocks to really thinking.