Went to see #StuartLee at the Leicester Square theater.
He's fun and funny and dissecting his own comedy in front of your very eyes.
Felt like I'd heard it before quite a lot. Maybe should leave it more than a year before next time.
You sometimes see other comics copying the way Lee disparages his own audience explaining why some got the joke and others didn't.
He does that great, and continues to be hilarious, but the rest of y'all should stop doing that.
Everything I said to my friends during the break about how if you refine your audience constantly and narrow it down to just the devoted, you end up with an audience consisting of people just like you, he repeated only funnier in the second half.
Still love Stew. Great stuff.
I was on Twitter/X for several years and as the COVID pandemic started it became a key way for people to communicate--scientists, clinicians, policy-makers, advocates. But since Musk took over many have fled and the place has become incredibly toxic (yes, I am slow to learn that not all things get better...). It's just really filled with hate now of all kinds. I just deleted my account. I feel free.
I've followed these spear campaigns against municipal broadband since 2005 when #UTOPIA started laying out their fiber to cities in #Utah.
Now that I work for one of the ISPs on the UTOPIA fiber network, I have an even closer view of what Big Telecom is doing to undermine communities rolling out their own public fiber infrastructure.
"Covert" and "sleazy" is only a fraction of the terms I would use.
Hospitals owned by private equity firms are the most in harming patients, staff, and more. https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/hospitals-slash-staff-services-quality-of-care-when-private-equity-takes-over/
Not surprising really, but I'm glad it's reported.
Hilariously, the Royal Meteorological society chooses to keep this 85 year old article, one of the earliest studies of human-caused climate change, behind a paywall. Find it on @scihub
https://spore.social/@ed_hawkins@fediscience.org/110145986006405198
1930: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred.
2024: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred. Plus: 3,000,000,000+ #bullshitjobs and a collapsing biosphere. Thanks to systemic poverty.
"There is a sense that however profound the climate crisis challenges might be, the stakes are not yet urgent enough to warrant drastic action. "
Having finished a rereading of Stross's Accelerando, I was thinking that the whole "superhuman intelligence arises from autonomous financial instruments" thing was kind of silly; then it occurred to me that in real life one of the software systems into which the most #ai effort is being poured, started out as a website for college students to evaluate each other's hotness..
https://www.europesays.com/1000142/ The absurd claim that DEI programs caused Boeing’s failure is similar to the scam conservative talk radio pulls on working people – deflecting blame on bad working conditions away from the greedy corporations by blaming “wokeness”, immigrants, etc. #Economy
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
🏛 #Dionysos and a #Maenad with #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE
@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
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Blockchain: a slow database
Crypto: an expensive slow database
NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs
AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms
LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way
Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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