I've been restarting my blogging. Here's a piece about the defining challenge of this century: restraint and #limits. Or, how to live safely together with already weakly godlike powers that #technology has brought forth. #Power #Sustainability #Democracy jmkorhonen.net/2025/11/28/l...

Learning to live with weakly g...

I'm sure everyone reading this toot, knows that data storage on SSDs is *NOT ETERNAL*

In case you didn't, please read this article and store your cold storage data, on magnetic media, HDDs tar -cvfz on tape works too

#SSD #HDD #filesystem #NAND #flash #technology #hardware #limits

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/

Water Extraction

"The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation. But there are limits to what he can do, with BHP’s extraction out of his control."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/water-is-under-pressure-in-the-great-artesian-basin/106002448
#water #OverExtraction #mining #irrigation #TakeCulture #limits #Ramsar #GroundwaterDependent #ecosystems #NSW #GAB #extractivism #IndigenousPeoples

Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders

https://nof1.ai/blog/TechPost1

#HackerNews #Exploring #Limits #LanguageModels #QuantTraders #AIFinance

American Democracy Minute Radio News Report for Nov. 12, 2025
Maine voters approved a ballot question limiting contributions to a Super PAC to $5,000 dollars in 2024. It was overturned by a federal district court, but it’s now headed to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals with some unlikely allies: Billionaires.

🎧 𝟗𝟎-𝐒𝐞𝐜. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 📖 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝, 🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 📣 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬

https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2025/11/11/court-case-defending-maines-limit-on-contributions-to-super-pacs-gets-unlikely-allies-billionaires/
#US #Maine #election #contribution #limits #SuperPAC #PAC #court #challenge #billionaires

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has significantly curtailed the scope of the EU's minimum wage directive in a ruling that has sparked political debate and r... https://news.osna.fm/?p=22918 | #news #court #eu #eus #limits

The German steel industry faces an existential crisis, prompting Bremen's Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte to publicly urge the federal government to bolster support... https://news.osna.fm/?p=22186 | #news #german #import #leader #limits

"Labor’s nature laws have ‘gigantic loopholes you could drive a heavy hauler through’."

"The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week."

"The laws to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act are scheduled for debate on Tuesday, with the government planning to rush them through the lower house this week."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/03/australia-politics-live-nationals-net-zero-liberals-labor-bulk-billing-optus-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-question-time
#biosphere #pollution #FossilFuels #climate #ExtremeHeat #Biodiversity #deforestation #harm #EPBCAct #exemptions #PayToDestroy #law #limits

Some readers insist my use of NotebookLM to turn essays into AI-hosted podcasts 'dilutes authenticity'. I call it diversification.

People consume ideas in different ways: some read, some listen. The AI hosts don’t just parrot—they interpret, misread, and occasionally out-think me.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/the-heresy-of-notebooklm/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#ai #google #notebooklm #podcast #technology #boundaries #limits #humancondition #channels #distribution #promotion #blog #nomusic #video #philosophy #communication

People are not a towel to wring the most out of. People have limits, well-being requirements, and don't care to be exploited. While AI and other machines may not have this fallacy, they still have limitations. #employee #wring #wellbeing #limits #exploited

How to Limit the Number of Posts in WordPress RSS Feed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdt4QuOR4hY 🎬💡🌐 #RSS #Feed #Limits #WordPress #Guide

Donald Trump rules out US vice presidential run to stay in power after 2028 election

Trump, who served his initial term from 2017 to 2021, often mentions that his supporters have called for…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2028 #after #allow #american #donald #Election #house #in #limits #move #NewZealand #NZ #out #power #presidential #rules #run #said #skirt #some #stay #suggest #supporters #term #to #Trump #Us #vice #vicepresident #white #would
https://www.newsbeep.com/212558/

The recent, unexplained drone incursions over Denmark and Germany have prompted both nations' military leadership to acknowledge ongoing vulnerabilities while c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=20952 | #news #defense #drone #faces #limits

“Centuries had given them ample time to make peace with what they were, to embrace the limits and the gifts that came with it. But sometimes, to borrow from the poets, it fucking sucked.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/21/centuries-had-given-them-ample-time-to-make-peace-with-what-they-were-to-embrace-the-limits-and-the-gifts-that-came-with-it-but-sometimes-to-borrow-from-the-poets-it-fucking-sucked/

#ActionAndAdventureFiction #AmbitsRun #ample #ArtificialIntelligenceFiction #book #borrow #centuries #embrace #EscapesFiction #fiction #fuckingSucked #GeneticEngineeringScienceFiction #gifts #given #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #IntelligenceArtificielleRomansNouvellesEtc #InterplanetaryVoyagesFiction #LMSagas #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #limits #makePeace #Novels #ParamilitaryForcesFiction #poets #quote #romans #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #SecrecyFiction #SecretRomansNouvellesEtc #SpaceFlightFiction #SpaceOperas #SpaceShipsFiction #SpaceVehiclesFiction #SpaceWeaponsFiction #time #VaisseauxSpatiauxRomansNouvellesEtc #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc #VolSpatialRomansNouvellesEtc #whatTheyWere

The debate surrounding potential age restrictions on social media platforms is encountering resistance from within Germany's governing bodies, raising questions... https://news.osna.fm/?p=20223 | #news #age #limits #media #ministers

#chatgpt ’s #free #plan has #stricter #limits than #copilot ’s, especially for advanced models like GPT-4. Copilot offers broader access to GPT-4 and GPT-5 features without a #subscription

Accelerated housebuilding and a world ‘devoid of wild animals’
Our current track: “The rate of wildlife decline is so rapid across the world and there’s a lot of work to be done to reverse it. We really could be looking at a future where these landscapes would be without these wild animals."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/18/worlds-landscapes-may-soon-be-devoid-of-wild-animals-says-nature-photographer
#biodiversity #wildlife #extinction #housing #sprawl #limits

The crushing banality of AI-play

I just went down a post-work rabbit hole of turning my favourite modernist poetry into pop punk and melodic hardcore songs using Suno, which has improved dramatically since I last used it around a year ago. I suspect that much of the musical slop I wrote about here was just produced through a single-round of prompting using Suno or a similar system.

I was briefly deeply amused with what I was doing. I then happened to glance at this picture of Eliot, felt I made eye contact and was suddenly struck by the crushing banality of what I was doing. Bringing fleeting amusement by debasing a poem I truly love and which in a real sense got me through the most difficult period of my life. I felt a sense of shame and then a parallel frustration with the cultural logic of the circumstances in which this occurred to me as a way to spend my time.

My discomfort wasn’t with the tool itself. I can see how there could be a value in Suno, including in simply playing with it an open-ended way. My discomfort was with how quickly my own play, amusing myself and trying to understand how it worked, descended into a kind of exercise which treated the poetry as interchageable raw material. It led me to relate to a poem I loved as just content to be toyed with, as a question that was initially interesting (“I wonder what Eliot would sound like as a melodic hardcore track”) rapidly became an exercise in pumping out effortlessly produced material for no discernible reason.

Limits serve a purpose. Limits provoke desire, as Lacan would spend his life arguing. Limits make us who we are, as Fichte argued. There’s something in the radical removal of limits on creative production which, combined with the triviality which the platform economy incentivises, threatens to swamp the human spirit in a crushing banality from which we might never recover.

It’s the fact I was doing it to this poem which felt shameful to me, as the finest reflection on the nature of limits I’ve ever encountered:

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.

– T S Eliot, Little Gidding

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still. Shrieking voices
Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,
Always assail them.

– T S Eliot, Burnt Norton

I think I just experienced the LLM grotesque for the first time. Is this how many AI critics continually feel when presented with most/all of the uses of LLMs? If so I get why they embody their position in the way they do more than I previously did.

(It also makes me understand why the temptation to autocomplete my AI and writing book led to a collapse in motivation which led me to eventually abandon the book)

#AICriticism #eliot #fichte #Lacan #limits #LLMGrotesque #poetry #Suno