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Arizona Republicans are hosting a two-day, QAnon-inflected, anti-vaccine circus at the statehouse — focused on supposed “atrocities” committed by public health officials in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/arizona-republicans-embrace-qanon-quack-covid-hearing-1234742074/
This may surprise you, but I was in Powell's Books not long ago. While there, perusing the natural history section, I happened upon an old volume that had clearly experienced a fair bit of physical trauma during its century and a quarter existence. However given the signifigance of its contents, partiularly chapter 3, I felt it deserved a good home, so I bought it and it is now safely in my library.
I've been screwing around with an #LLM prompt filled with various Max Headroom quotes as examples and having it create new bits of dialogue "in that style".
Here's some ramblings it generated on the topic of "hot dogs".
What's interesting is that this almost works great in the spirit of Max from the original movie version of him: a rambling randomized idiot who's often funny, but just as often muttering incoherent nonsense.
I really need to do something with this...
Brad Smith is Microsoft’s secret weapon when it comes to lobbying.
The company is taking a two pronged approach to regulatory capture in AI where Sam Altman talks up how scary AI is and Microsoft proposes regulation which happens to work out great for them both.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/25/brad-smith-microsoft-ai/
“A better world is one in which we have a dynamic system that can seek equilibrium against a variety of activities and circumstances.
Where rather than having to hope that every time the world changes Mark Zuckerberg guesses right…
And if he says that our future is being legless, sexless, low-polygon cartoon characters in a heavily surveilled Metaverse named after an idea from a dystopian science fiction novel…”
(@pluralistic with the mic drop)
Still looking for a good website/blog which covers recent scientific info about reptiles, amphibians, and other #herpetology stuff. I've got a lot of science blogs I follow, but I only get a trickle of my favorite subject there :(. #science
And yet another entry in The Histories has arrived!
Say hello to Tammy Orville Coxen, Empress of the Campari Express (1893-2005)
You can read this entry (and 38 others) right here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:tammyorvillecoxen
Thanks to Tammy for the support. This one took a lot of research to write, but the final product came out well, I think!
If anyone else wants an entry (or get something added), deets are here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:buyhistory
Thanks for reading! #writing #sciencefiction #althist
“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
-Kim Stanley Robinson
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