ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

Vintage 2018

In August 2019, a young girl named Bethan visited Poole Museum in Dorset, England, with her mother. Inspired by the exhibits and a conversation about the purpose of museums, Bethan decided to donate her most treasured possession—a small rock—to the museum.
She requested that it be placed behind glass so others could appreciate it as she did. The museum staff honored her heartfelt request, and the rock was displayed in a glass case on the second floor, labeled “Bethan’s Rock.” #museums

"That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do."

Wow, this is an interesting piece..

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning

No, You Shouldn't Let Your Kids Use ChatGPT. A thread. 🧵

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As Carl Hendrick argues for a return to 'deep reading':

'Reading, in the end, is an act of faith. Faith that other minds matter, that complexity deserves our patience, that truth emerges not from confirmation but from confrontation with difference.... To read deeply is to insist that some things, wisdom, empathy, the expansion of human understanding, cannot be optimised, only experienced'!

Reading can be (is) revolutionary!

Read more #books

@bookstodon #politics

https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-humility-of-the-page-the-lost?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1qe5uc&triedRedirect=true

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Musk destroyed the US civil service, abruptly cancelled aid programs around the world, killing people and damaging US soft power. His teams stole data, harmed science, broke the law. "I was on drugs and had family issues" is not an excuse

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

My first guest piece collaborating with the Media and Democracy Project - A take on how global media calls out Trump’s racism & shocking behavior more prominently & more directly than most US media. With positive shoutouts to Karen Attiah & Adam Serwer

https://bit.ly/4kgHccC

#democracy #media #uspol #journalism

If at any given point in your life, you need some minimalistic pigeon feet for your Ikea stool, I made this free 3D print model
Enjoy and share!
https://www.printables.com/model/1311438-pigeon-feet-for-kyrre-ikea-stool

#3Dprint #ikea #DIY

If you believe in the future, stay away from AI.

At first you may feel like you've been left behind. Don't worry -- think, read, write, take time to develop your abilities.

Be present.

When the AI madness passes (yes, it will pass) your skills will be more valuable than ever.

The Copilot Delusion
"we’ll normalize this mediocrity. Cement it in tooling. Turn it into a best practice. We'll enshrine this current bloated, sluggish, over-abstracted hellscape as the pinnacle of software."

Enlightened perspective on AI coding assistant but also superb writing.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/ #ai #assistant #coding #vibecoding

when this bubble bursts its gonna be fuckin wild

If they wanted to,

Congress could impeach or invoke the 25th

The Supreme Court could reverse his policies

The media could report his lies and illegality accurately

U.S. billionaires and corporations could stop funding and bribing him

They don't want to. The problem isn't him. It's them.

The rise of student reliance on #AI to write for them reminds me of this quote, and how we're seeing it play out in real time:

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell

I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

A lot of people talking about "hallucinations", and how often LLMs are right or wrong today. I wish you'd stop.

LLMs can't be right or wrong. They don't hallucinate, because they don't experience any reality whatsoever. There's no understanding, or intent, or knowledge, or learning, or truth in there. The best mental model to understand what it's doing is something like mad-libs. It's a mad-lib solver. If the end result is factual, that's a coincidence, and it happened on accident.

Ahh, all hail the half finished ideas that can be miraculously completed at speed when needed.

POST 10,000!

Let's go with a positive and wholesome message. Oh aye.

All good thoughts to you lovely Mastodon people that have been the reason for me hanging around & blethering on so much x

#sillyScribbles

"Donald Trump and his administration are systematically dismantling our government, institutions and alliances. They are tearing apart the fabric of the Republic. Their corruption is naked and unprecedented. They are investigating and jailing their political opponents. But the media right now is focused on a retired president’s aging process."

#Trump #Biden #media #CorporateMedia #MainstreamMedia #MediaFail #Tapper
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