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Writer/teacher/etc [computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. See
Come out to Waterloo Park on Saturday August 8 (world HTML day!) at 5 pm, to write HTML in the park. This is a casual celebration of the playful possibilities of the web: no experience is expected, and html activities (with or without computer) will be provided titleduntitled.name/facades/html...
Visual Front: POSTERS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR FROM UCSD's SOUTHWORTH COLLECTION library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/vis...
Well at least everyone pouring their money into Palantir, Oracle, and Raytheon stocks are happy.
We are discovering what global war lead by 21st century neo-fascists looks like, and also I had one of the best bowls of noodles I’ve ever tasted (Wuhan Chili Chili in Markham, Ontario) today
The suggestion from our results is: seemingly not! This was a pilot study and the findings need to be confirmed. However, they would suggest that despite being presented as general purpose pattern machines, LLMs pick up on different patterns from us, struggling with significant rhetorical figures.
Good day to reread Mark Twain‘s 1901 “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”. And also Eduardo Galeano. I strongly recommend Mirrors, one of Galeano’s last works. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
This literally pro-fascism car oriented Czech political party which just won 13 seats in parliament seems like something we’re destined to see in Canada
Sure would be nice if the Toronto Star didn’t quote as experts culture-war-right think tanks with fashy-dogwhistle names and a penchant for genocide denial
democratic socialism just keeps working (and everyone does their best not to notice) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Mass-psychosis-as-a-service. Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius, but evil. A neighborhood sized map ruining Memohis air. XAI market cap $75 billion and rising, with participation from the Vision Fund, Fidelity, State Street, BlackRock, a16z, Lightspeed Partners, and Sequoia capital.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn’t perfect but it did a remarkable job when you think about it. It isn’t easy to explain its persistence (perhaps, its origins) in terms of US soft power. We (for various “we”s both pro- & anti-liberal) underestimate New Deal internationalism at our peril
Had a great time listening and presenting at the National Communications Associations conference in the ARSTM pre-conference on the knowability of LLMs (and rhet figures) and with the Panel for Progress on the Digital Divide on opposed visions of pluralism, “entropic or mycelial”, in AI imaginaries
Why is it culturally almost mandatory in these countries to live in a way, in this case for no apparent benefit other than ad-shaped prestige, that accelerates and almost guarantees the destruction of the biosphere? www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Also worth noting that a couple pages later in this collection from 1941 on literary rhetoric is a passage on the necessity of post/degrowth
This is in the beginning of Kenneth Burke’s Philosophy of Literary Form - Burke! (& i see folks with rhetoric phds saying it’s fine to let a few companies own & automate the production of words: ‘vocabulary itself as a way of sizing up reality…the “collective revelation” of testing and discussion’)
It’s a rhetorical question & I know the answer(s) but why are most mainstream tech journalists so horrendously bad at the not-repeating-PR part of their jobs, even in critical articles. Mundane example: there are ten ways to introduce “training data” in plain language but “more humanlike” isn’t it