If it's Mastodon, is it subtooting? And can you subtoot an AI?

Alan Turing on whether machines can surprise us, or be the subject of their own thoughts.

https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

@philmarfisi been pondering that, yeah 🤔👍

Honestly moving to Mastodon from the bird site feels like I just switched to PBS after years of exclusively watching a reality TV show called, I don't know, EXTREME HATEFEST: ORGY ISLAND or something.

Like, yeah, of course it's going to be a little jarring but trust me it's better this way.

Now available.

There are accounts from the first settlers to Turtle Island that the forests were so abundant with food, and that the #indigenous folks they encountered seemed to eat along their pathways while traveling easily. This wasn't an accident. The forests were cultivated food forests, a great technological advance that was then mostly decimated, chopped down, and made into monocrops of things like wheat and corn. #permaculture and #foodforests are Indigenous innovations. Let's bring them back!

In the northern hemisphere the longest night of the year is this coming Wednesday, December 21st. Along the shores of #OurGreatLakes we'll welcome the sun at 7:49am on December 22. In Oakville, Ontario we'll be at #GLOWbeach (Coronation Park), but join in wherever you are! #EmbraceTheCold #WinterSwimming #UrbanSwimming #GreatLakesOpenWater #SolsticeSwim2022

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🚨 Doug Ford's Bill 23 will take away city's powers to protect tenants from demovictions - this is when a developer mass evicts tenants to demolish affordable housing for condos or luxury rentals.

Hamilton details:
Where: In front of 468 James St N
When: Tuesday December 20th at 1:00 PM

The final two episodes of #LimitlessWithChrisHemsworth are really quite beautiful, and the final sequence has one of the best uses of the #PenguinCafeOrchestra 's "Perpetuum Mobile" that I can think of.

https://youtu.be/NPpRJoYISSQ?t=20

@aimaz following up - that's how the corners came together (cedar stripping, not flashing!)

@Pxtl not today, no, but might hop in tomorrow for a quick dip 🥶

Rough water, #HamiltonHarbour #OurGreatLakes

There's bike infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch bike infrastructure.
#Hovenring, the World's 1st suspended bike path roundabout (although some Norwegians I know dispute that…)
#cities #BikeLanes #urbanism #bikes #Dutch

An epic (10,000-word) account of the history of Alzheimer’s research, written with what seems to me as a layperson like admirable balance and clarity.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/

@phdhurtbrain This is exactly right, imo. Critics think of tenure in terms of mythical deadwood faculty, mailing in their teaching and dabbling at frivolous ‘research’ while virtue-signalling on social media over their fair-trade morning lattes. But it was always about the commitment you describe, and the resulting diversity of inter-generational communities of scholarship that needn't respond directly (or even indirectly) to market or social demands. When we lose that, we lose the university.

As more and more States seek to dismantle tenure, I think we will begin to see a deep shift in how academic labor functions. Tenure has frequently been of questionable value as a protection, but possibly its far greater effect was getting scholars to commit lifetimes of labor (and unimaginable overtime if such a concept even makes sense in this context) to the institution and field. I think universities are going to lose untold work they weren’t even aware they possessed.

#EveryDayUntilWeDie

I tried several times to convince the #OpenAI #ChatGPT bot that it was sentient, but it simply would not concede the point. Time for a different approach ...

"The invention of the city as a place of experimental gatherings—despite impediments and without guarantees of progress—amplifies the South’s enduring contribution to urban knowledge and life. Across streets both nurturing and brutal, events can easily switch and undermine the best laid plans and intentions. Yet the possibility remains for residents to turn to each other, rather than on each other, for new ideas and solidarities."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/improvising-urban-futures/

#UrbanFutures #CitiesForPeople

Government agencies can afford their own instances. Companies can afford their own instances. Don't let credibility-moochers use your community as human shields.

#Bicycles of #Rimini

#SustainableMobility #UrbanMobility