After this year’s first session of playing in the garden hose.
Muñoz’s lecture is itself a long and challenging one. He had to spend a long time at the lectern to deliver it, and the audience had to sit a long time in their chairs to hear it. The reader of the transcript, too, has to devote a long time to reading it. What we have here is a kind of reciprocity of courtesies. The paying of attention — to a painting, to a lecture, to an essay, to a person, to anything — is also always a paying of courtesy. In paying attention we pay respect.
I wrote about what to do when you think an author might be racist — or otherwise morally deficient.
This new post by Timothy B. Lee is exemplary. Lee is the best guide I’ve found to the most recent developments in AI research and practice: he’s sharp and bold in naming the concerns, but also able (as here) to show the ways in which AI platforms can be extremely helpful.
“It’s got nothing to do with Vorsprung durch Technik, y’know?”
Just back from an amazing weekend at my beloved Laity Lodge, where I got to hang out and kinda-collaborate with some astonishingly gifted people, including Dana Tanamachi, Uwade, and Jon Searle — plus my buddy Austin Kleon. Hearing Uwade sing live sent chills down my spine — you can get a sense of her amazing vocal presence by watching this. Goodness, being around people this gifted … well, it’s humbling. That’s a mild word for it.
So long (for now) to the canyon.
When in 1792 the noted engraver and cartographer John Cooke (1765-1845) moved from Drury Lane, London to Mill Hill, he made this card to show friends his passage. Beautiful! (You’ll want to open the image in a new tab or window to see it full size.)
I don’t use Chrome so I can’t use this, but I love the idea of a productivity blocker.