noel @noelison.bsky.social · 14/11/2024There are very few pieces of media that mean as much to me as this poem. Even if it's just for a minute, stepping away from the news and trying to find a moment of peace can be what we need to get through today. 020
Reposted by noelRob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 14/11/2024using genAI models is training in obedience rather than "creativity"; the user cedes the capacity to imagine to the model and is taught how things are supposed to appear (by the corporate power concentrated behind the models) 24614
Reposted by noelRob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 14/11/2024on the surface, using an image generator seems like one is participating in power, at the level of infantile wish fulfillment, but in practice, prompting is more like begging than making or manifesting something 13511
Reposted by noelEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2024A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™. First of all, as always: eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point. 491385370
Reposted by noelJared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Writing requires imagining an audience but that’s really hard, so most people pretend they are talking to “everyone.” But writers are never talking to everyone, so imagining how every last person might read a phrase, doesn’t actually help you communicate your ideas. 112914
Reposted by noelmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2024I have honestly never met a man who made decisions off of logic. That's all. Have a good day! 2527922
Reposted by noelPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2024If Window 11 is making you think about Linux, you're in luck. It is easier than ever to linux your computer. Getting linux into your computer *used* to involve ritual human sacrifice. Now, it merely involves solving a lethal puzzle maze. First, you will need to find the correct sewer entrance. 691988301
Reposted by noelAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23/09/2024The people defending Olivia Nuzzi also think transgender identity, all on its own, creates too much bias for trans people to cover trans issues objectively as journalists. 10736189
Reposted by noelBut Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 18/03/2024We taught sand to hallucinate. 510632
Reposted by noelPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/08/2024TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice. 7742128
Reposted by noelAxle @armpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2024Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what 182304813
Reposted by noelEmily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 28/06/2024Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss. 341254350
Reposted by noeldell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/06/2024I’m unsubscribing to things left and right. I don’t care if all I have left are a stack of paperbacks and a rotary phone. They’re stealing people’s work to replace them. I’m not participating. 515234
Reposted by noelDaniel Malmer @malmer.com · 12/05/2024The coverage of universities calling riot police on their students has been really feeble. One of the first questions I’d ask is, “did you have a statement prepared in the event you killed one of your students?” 191890532
Reposted by noelMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/05/2024I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con... 451560911
Reposted by noelCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 02/05/2024“It is much easier to bring down the hammer on anyone bold enough to violate the rules than it is to wrestle with the knotty question of how much the rules deserve to be followed in the first place.” 👈 213132
Reposted by noelKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 25/04/2024WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!? 443289708
Reposted by noelMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/04/2024at some point you have to ask yourself: am i a brave truth-teller bucking the mainstream or am i simply a whiny little bitch? 1229427
Reposted by noelCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 13/04/2024One of the things that I really appreciate about The Markup's reporting is their commitment to making space for young people to share their experience with technology and its impacts on their education. The latest example: themarkup.org/digital-book...themarkup.orgFive High Schoolers Describe the Dangers and Frustrations of Censored Web Access – The MarkupTheir schools block information about The Trevor Project, abortion, microplastics, and more 12415
Reposted by noelGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Absolutely enraged by this detail in Christine Blasey Ford's memoir 1402275502
Reposted by noelJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/01/2024Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point. Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history. 212326929
Reposted by noelNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/01/2024"Worst of all, the megaprojects that are transforming Detroit are being subsidized by tax breaks and sweetheart land deals to billionaires. Many Detroiters feel their taxes are paying for the very forces that are pushing them out." www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Will Detroit’s Comeback Benefit Detroiters?Megaprojects and new development may be helping Detroit’s economy, but residents in low-income neighborhoods say they are being left behind. 04522
Reposted by noelsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/11/2023“Farmers in one family [in California’s Imperial Valley], the Abattis, used an estimated 260,000 acre-feet [from the Colorado River], more water than the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area uses.” projects.propublica.org/california-f...projects.propublica.orgThe 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western StatesTens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states. 18301128
Reposted by noelSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2023My partner and his family are from Maine, he works closely w/ organizations based in Portland. Last night we both got on X for the first time in months hoping that there might be some chance it could still work as a realtime news source when we didn’t see much here. The answer, absolutely not. 491405410
Reposted by noelMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/10/2023NEW: Jann Wenner said women musicians didn’t “articulate” at the same level as men. So i asked a dozen women what it was like to work for him. These are their stories: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...thehandbasket.coExclusive: Women staffers of Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone get their turn to speak“The men were very angry all the time, and some of them would have full on fits—like, full-on toddler-like tantrums." 13553222
