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I want to expand on a footnote to last week’s post. As I said there, we now have clear evidence that austerity from 2010 onwards helped fuel right wing populism, Brexit and Farage. However, that post argued that right wing populism would...
I want to expand on a footnote to last week’s post. As I said there, we now have clear evidence that austerity from 2010 onwards helped fuel right wing populism, Brexit and Farage. However, that post argued that right wing populism would...
Right now I'm working to an agent for my DS4 project. Local inference is token-poor, it's a battlefield where optimizations count. I was quite surprised by the fact the EDIT tool everybody is using right now forces the LLM to emit the...
Today's links There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple Stores...
Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Band-Aids & Bullet Holes on Kickstarter Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands by Meguey & Vincent Baker The King Is Dead by Meguey & Vincent Baker Stewpot:...
Souled American was one of the first three acts I interviewed professionally, way back in 1989 (maybe late 1988?) — that was in Manhattan, for Tower Records’ Pulse! magazine, before I moved to Sacramento to work for Pulse! full time —...
If a part of the body is sick, the body is sick.
A call for due diligence and open discussions over misinformation and speculation.
How did I get this? Let me count the ways. Did I buy it? If yes, what was I thinking? Was it a favour to the bookseller? It might have been at a science fiction convention when I was distracted or had few other choices. Maybe it was a...