
Oh, to live in the present where infinite potential exists! We all have a hand in the wake that will reverberate

Oh, to live in the present where infinite potential exists! We all have a hand in the wake that will reverberate
“Rather than returning to the family in the face of its destruction under capitalism, we should seek to create a world where the haven of the family is not necessary. Rather than a society full of broken families, we need a society where someone without a family can thrive as well as someone with family intact. This is what “abolishing the family” truly means: to end the economic relations of dependence of wives and children on the patriarch so that kinship is based on voluntary relationships of genuine love and community. This would entail not ending the ability of parents to raise their children, but instead giving children the option to leave their families if they are abusive, while retaining support networks beyond the misery of foster care. It would mean ending the unpaid domestic labor of women that reproduces the nuclear family, by socializing this work and removing its gendered connotations.”
— Donald Parkinson, Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
With all the effort they're putting into making sure that ChatGPT never says or does anything even the tiniest bit unmarketable I give it even odds that within two years we end up with a situation where you ask it the wrong sort of question and it automatically calls the cops.
Honestly, I'm morbidly curious to see what that's going to look like. I mean, obviously OpenAI is going to release your unredacted chat logs to literally any law enforcement agency that asks, and there will 100% be court cases where the accused's chatbot conversations are presented as evidence, but I can easily imagine a scenario where some computer-illiterate judge who's read too many NYT thinkpieces and genuinely believes the algorithm is a person signs off on a warrant for the cops to interrogate the chatbot itself, and I have no idea how things would play out from there.
the computer synod
With all the effort they're putting into making sure that ChatGPT never says or does anything even the tiniest bit unmarketable I give it even odds that within two years we end up with a situation where you ask it the wrong sort of question and it automatically calls the cops.
Honestly, I'm morbidly curious to see what that's going to look like. I mean, obviously OpenAI is going to release your unredacted chat logs to literally any law enforcement agency that asks, and there will 100% be court cases where the accused's chatbot conversations are presented as evidence, but I can easily imagine a scenario where some computer-illiterate judge who's read too many NYT thinkpieces and genuinely believes the algorithm is a person signs off on a warrant for the cops to interrogate the chatbot itself, and I have no idea how things would play out from there.
the computer synod
"Glimpsing at the seabed through the water and the complexity of the light within, at a soothing southern sea." By Shigeko Inoue (2002).
Born in 1945, Inoue studied traditional Japanese and Italian woodblock printing. Her work focuses on nature, transparency and the movement of water.
Our boomer trait is gonna be that we cannot recognise deep fakes or AI, I'm calling it. We're going to be like "wow did you see this???" And our grandkids are going to look at the 12 second hologram we show them, shrug and be like: "blinks are too regular."
I'm going to be chewing out some kid for being rude to a customer service employee on a call and they'll be like: "they weren't breathing"
"why are you always wearing that ugly coca-cola sweatshirt, you have so many nice clothes" - "Nestlé sold our teachers' code to CocAmaColaZom and now we can shadow-prompt their AI into giving us better grades"
"...but your maths teacher seemed so weird and incompetent, I was sure she was human :("
im gonna get a tattoo of a bird.
“The word ‘improve’ itself, in its original meaning, did not mean just ‘make better’ in a general sense but literally meant to do something for monetary profit, especially to cultivate land for profit (based on the old French for into, en, and profit, pros – or its oblique case, preu). By the seventeenth century, the word ‘improver’ was firmly fixed in the language to refer to someone who rendered land productive and profitable, especially by enclosing it or reclaiming waste. Agricultural improvement was by then a well-established practice, and in the eighteenth century, in the golden age of agrarian capitalism, ‘improvement’ in word and deed came truly into its own. The word was at the same time acquiring a more general meaning in the sense that we know it today. (We might like to think about the implications of a culture in which the word for ‘making better’ is rooted in the word for monetary profit.) …[I]n the early modern period, productivity and profit were inextricably connected in the concept of improvement, and it nicely sums up the ideology of a rising agrarian capitalism.”
— Ellen Meiksins Wood. “The Origin of Capitalism.
okay new one tag with the funniest red flag you see in the person you rbed it from
Is there anyway to access EPW article without subscription?
https://pdfhost.io/v/SN8YPK2yS_Partha
The original link should’ve worked because its in the public archive but I reuploaded it here as well.
my gender is i dont have time to think about it
The stratificatory aspects of the use of cultural forms like astrology have intriguing connections with social change, especially as such forms transfer the ideas of one social class or age to another. A comparative example is the working class fascination with phrenology in Victorian England. It was through the medium of phrenological instruction, which Victorian working men often received at Mechanics’ Institutes and from the popular press, that their class came to understand many of the assumptions and implications of eighteenth-century rational and materialist philosophy. For example, the phrenological notion that one can, by evaluating the bumps on one’s skull, learn of and thereby cultivate one’s strengths, is a neat application of the Enlightenment confidence in the perfectability of man. Sinhalese astrology is a similar working out of abstract notions about reality and human nature, namely the leeway a person has to alter his karmic destiny. What is important is that both phrenology and astrology reduce cultural notions to practicable schemata for directing human action and evaluating it, and thus bridge a substantial gap for actors, not to say social scientists.
David Pingree, Sinhalese Astrology, South Asian Caste
Systems, and the Notion of Individuality
hey i saw you mention in the tags of the astrology post that astrology in countries where it has social power ruins peoples lives, do you have more posts that talk about that or some keywords i can use on google to read more about it?
Hi! I tag my posts under anti astrology. It is truly depressing that search engine results are clogged with astrologers SEO bullshit. The EPW has a piece here in context of the reintroduction of astrology to university curricula. JSTOR seems to have a lot of oriental nonsense but this piece on Sinhalese and South Asian astrology is good and was referred to by Susan Bayly. I think searching for vedic astrology + caste + brahamanism should lead you down the right path.
microdosing on being your.friend by liking your posts :)
particle filtering sounds so cool would love to have to use it someday
I helped a friend of mine work through his incredibly painful thesis that built off a particle filtering strategy and it was in fact pretty cool
Come to localisation problems!