Dan Rosen

What I also don’t seem to get is why we consider the self-explanation output of these models as transparent reports or representations of its internal processes

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You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Gender, domesticity, heterosexuality clearly driving forces in Holmes performance Nathan falls for on camera. I get the critiques that it sorta glosses over the depth of the actual things Holmes did. Performance of all sorts of masculinities in this movie. Heterosexual nonsense. Great movie

Just got out of You Can See Everything. Worth the hype. Everyone in this movie is just manipulating each other

Nathan Fielder: so when you said you CAN dress the chicken, you meant put it in a new outfit Amelia Bedelia: exactly. I don't understand the big deal Her insane BF: babe, your mind is just on another frequency

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tbh I think it’s just film economics (it’s also still in like 50 or so theaters) bsky.app/profile/labu...

We developed the capacity to visually encounter the cosmic background radiation from the creation of the universe and we mostly find it annoying.

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Nathan Fielder: so when you said you CAN dress the chicken, you meant put it in a new outfit Amelia Bedelia: exactly. I don't understand the big deal Her insane BF: babe, your mind is just on another frequency

I think Andrew Dewaard’s argument in Derivative Media is so useful here - reboots, references, remakes are finance capital’s way of exerting control over the unpredictability of media reception. Intertextuality as business strategy in financialized entertainment industry

The problem for cybersecurity enjoyers is that there hasn’t been enough incidents to achieve the regularity and excitement of say, watching sports. Finally, with AI we have solved this

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Nathan Fielder is just a little Guy With a Movie Camera

another day in the layoff industry

It’s the extension of Big Data logic - that b/c you consented to give data in one aspect at one point in time (social media) means you consented to all future sales, connections, applications of that data (algorithms)

Agreed. Everyone is forgetting that AoIR is a dues paying organization and that we get to decide how we act

In this vein I find it helpful to remember Elizabeth Anderson's argument that the point of education is not to reward merit, but to create it.

Selling this to the class by telling them it’s about a messy polycule

This week we're doing the Hollywood Production Code in media history. Had to switch up my screening - we're gonna watch Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933)

So many people giving read/write access to more accounts, more parts of their computer make privacy, consent more difficult. So many 2nd, 3rd, 4th level externalities and possible consequences. Stochastic hacking?

tbh, I’m not sure AOIR can completely stop this happening on a listserv, only increase the friction to reduce the overall number. But still important to have the policy and follow through on it

Good response from AoIR