Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

NarraScope will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, June 9-11, 2023. See this post for our announcement and COVID policy:

https://narrascope.org/2022/11/narrascope-2023-announce.html

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.

**** Trusting Elon's Twitter Is Like Trusting Donald Trump ****

For so many years I've heard so much ranting about #Google ending various products or services with sometimes only a relatively limited amount of warning (like months) and sometimes much longer warnings (like years).

But compare that with #Twitter right now. Major third-party client apps of long standing apparently suddenly targeted for cutoff with ZERO warning or explanation, and only leaks to indicate this was done intentionally. No official word at all to confirm why this occurred.

Another example of why anybody depending on Elon's Twitter for anything of importance is acting beyond foolishness. It's like trusting Donald Trump. Maybe even worse. -L

Here's my attempt to synthesize historical trends and patterns when a new technology came along that seemed to automate art, like photography and computer animation.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/12/17/when-tech-changes-art.html
These ideas and text are still a work-in-progress.
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And now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted.

I wouldn't have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication. Figured if nothing else this would push the issue.

Oh well, on to smaller but greener pastures.

Can we stop using the term "hallucinating" for #AI that gives false answers? Hallucinations are ungrounded perceptions based on disembodied sensation, which implies when an AI gives a correct answer it is grounding its perception in embodied sensation. But #ChatGPT can't sense anything. It just finds statistical correlations among conclusions made by beings with real bodies (us).

@Inquiry @Harishjosev

I only recently found out about him while reading *Behavior and Culture in One Dimension* by DP Waters which largely expands upon HH Pattee's work. I really enjoy Pattee's clear-cut writing style and he is also one of the few people I have a hard time finding any flaw in their line of reasoning. For example, his distinction between Laws vs Rules fits perfectly with my own effort of trying to explain to my engineering friends the difference between developing a Product (Structure) and a System as they would regularly confuse the two. 😀

I don't know about the *disconnect between dyadic and triadic frames of reference* as you put it, but here is a doodle I made a few months ago while reading Pattee and Waters that you may find interesting:

Let's pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:

Apps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online – unceremoniously killed off by a clown who thinks he's the smartest guy around because he has money.

These apps didn't deserve to end up like this.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Bij fysiotherapie Van ßommel hebben ze de B zo hard onder handen genomen dat ie een scharfes S is geworden.

"Der erzwungene Krieg" was the title by a book framing Hitler's expansionism as peacekeeping https://www.spiegel.de/politik/war-hitler-ein-friedensfreund-a-0e9eb78d-0002-0001-0000-000046173486

The Bündner Kunstmuseum was created in 1919 inside the neoclassical Villa Planta in Chur. Villa Planta was originally built in 1874 and 1875 to plans by Johannes Ludwig for Jacques Ambrosius von Planta, a cotton merchant in Alexandria.
#architecture #museum #photography #mastoart

@temptoetiam the most nasty aspect of #receptiogate is that it will be certainly more difficult for young people who work seriously and in precarious conditions to get funding from @SNF_ch in the future. SNF seems to be in an embarrassing situation, will have to ask (and to answer) many questions and be more careful in the future. The alleged “victim” #Rossi creates real victims. The whole thing is disgusting.

@BenPatrickWill I have an open Zotero group where people are adding stuff. Not claiming it’s exhaustive, but hopefully something useful. https://www.zotero.org/groups/4888338/chatgpt

Next Thursday we'll be only 15 years out from #Y2038, the date when a 32-bit signed time_t rolls over. It is already past time to start planning for it. Many of the cars and devices sold today will hopefully still be functioning in 15 years, so should be certified now that they won't break then. Also, timestamps in the future (eg, expiration dates) will increasingly cross the threshold as we get closer.

I wrote a blog in 2019 which still applies today: https://www.akamai.com/blog/performance/preparing-for-y2038-already

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.

Kolleg*in gesucht: Ausschreibung für eine #Professur zu "Design vertrauenswürdiger Künstlicher Intelligenz". 5 Jahre Leitung einer Forschungsgruppe am
CAIS / Bochum, danach unbefristet an der
Uni Wuppertal. https://www.cais-research.de/stellenangebote/design-vertrauenswurdiger-kunstlicher-intelligenz/ #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #Algorithmen

Professorship (W3) “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory” Ruhr Universität Bochum | Bewerbungsfrist: 23.02.2023 http://www.gw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/content/rar-college-digital-objects.pdf | https://jobs.openbiblio.eu/stellenangebote/84724 #openbibliojobs #DigitalHumanities

Schöne Zusammenstellung aktueller Unternehmen, die #Regionalsprache dokumentieren und untersuchen (#Dialekt #Mundart #Schweizerdeutsch):
https://regionalsprache.de/regionalsprachenforschung-online.aspx