Bryan Ford
@brynosaurus
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Monsieur le Professaurus de l'Info-Cyber Blahdeeblah, EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud
Joined February 2009
We need to reclaim software's wishing well from the cruelty of generative AI
rockpapershotgun.com
A personal essay on the poetics and psychology of generative AI "companions" such as ChatGPT and Copilot.
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“In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind.”
theguardian.com
Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism
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‘Trump’s US is “just like Yeltsin in Russia in the 1990s – promising a new kind of democracy, but in reality allowing the oligarchs to loot and distort the society”’
theguardian.com
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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. posted with my apologies to any followers still here on ex-Twitter and still hoping for me to stay anything human readable. I promise I will again, at some point. :).
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“I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.”
theguardian.com
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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RT @js_kaplan: Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly succ….
propublica.org
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or...
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Making e-voting safer from coercion and vote buying.
actu.epfl.ch
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting...
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“Onion takeover of Infowars”…how can this not be an Onion headline…wait it is…not…how meta…(getting sucked into the singularity of self-parody)
theguardian.com
Court rejects far-right shock jock’s claim of ‘collusion’ but finds that trustee should have got more money from parody site or Jones-affiliated bidder
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"Towards Real Democratic DAOs": slides from my talk at the recent #DAOSymposium in Zurich. Thanks to @MalikElBay and the other organizers for the invitation!.
drive.google.com
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“At a moment of existential crisis, governments everywhere are retreating into a dreamworld, in which impossible contradictions are reconciled. You can send your legions to war with reality, but eventually we all lose.”
theguardian.com
The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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I wonder how many of Spirit’s back-office jobs are held by raccoons? Guess that’s another way to cut costs.
people.com
On Nov. 4, a raccoon fell through the ceiling of New York City's LaGuardia Airport, shocking travelers waiting for Spirit Airlines flights
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“Our mistake was to think we could row this boat across the acid lake before the acid dissolved it.”
theguardian.com
Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves
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“It will not become an autocracy overnight but there is now no doubt that this is a democracy in decay. As Oscar Wilde never said, to elect Trump once may be regarded as a misfortune; to elect him twice looks like craziness.”
theguardian.com
To elect Donald Trump once may be regarded as a misfortune; to elect him twice looks like craziness
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