velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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a cheap, mendacious world, where what passes for progress almost always turns out to be a confidence game
A kazoo requiem for the lab-meat industry.
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the thing we are frightened of is not close to the thing we already have
Chris Butler’s got your quantitative counter-argument against LLMs, though I’d rather rely on the qualitative one.
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my kid could not have done this (not least because I don’t have one)
(You’re looking at me) looking at myself looking at art (on the internet).
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can you dig it?
Thoughts on the movie Digger, whose rejection is IMO the best measure of its uncanny and timely accuracy.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”