Wade

@wadewarrens.bsky.social

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Ecosystems. Politics. Gender. Jaywalking. Land back.

The increasing tendency to lose track of the fact that "stochastic parrots" was penned to refer to LLMs specifically, and not to all of "AI", makes a ton of sense: LLMs deal with language. Language is an entry point to interact with many AI systems, and language holds a privileged status in our brains. It has played a central role in interpersonal understanding and human connection, aiding in the development of societies that provide for our survival.
he has painted many jets and airplanes for military adventure thriller book covers; when he creates a futuristic aircraft—here for the cover of HarperCollins 1990 collection of Philip K Dick short fiction We Can Remember It For You Wholesale—it is at once familiar and unfamiliar, both like and unlike actual aircraft, and situated in a landscape that is both Earthlike and not (are those airport control towers in the background, or domed cities?)
For the devil always disguises himself in a mesmerizing appear-ance. If gender is such a devil, or the devil himself, then to argue with him is to fall inside his trap. To argue with the devil would be to accept the false appearance as a plausible interlocutor. Devils and demons can only be expelled or banished, burned in effigy, which is why censorship, bullying, and pathologization become the key strategies for the anti-gender movement.
How stubbornly Palantir took over Switzerland The controversial tech company Palantir supplies surveillance technology to the military and intelligence services. With local authorities and the army, however, it flashed. Internal documents now show why. Part 1 of our research. By Adrienne Fichter, Marguerite Meyer, Lorenz Naegeli, Balz Oertli, Jennifer Steiner (text) and Klawe Rzeczy (illustration), 08.12.2025