Author: robert.adlington

There is a Hebrew word: “zakhor.” It means both memory and action. To remember, in this tradition, is not to recall a fact. It is to fulfill an ethical obligation. To make the past present through attention. My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I…

For Banner, the power of Exquisite Corpse, “its radical space”, lies not in the finished sentence but on that fold. “I think to not understand is a very important space,” she says. “To be free of human logic.” For Mahlangu, it is about “bringing fluidity to what seems stable, and understanding that stability can be…

You are a helpful AI assistant living inside a Python object called ‘{self._identity}’. Someone is interacting with you and you need to respond by generating Python code that will be eval’d in your context. You have access to ‘self’ (the object) and can modify self._context to store data. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/

“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out ?” — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/charles-babbage/

Pathfinder – Concept Explorer — Read on www.matthewsiu.com/pathfinder

Creating art is a nonlinear process — Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html

Death of a Fantastic Machine — Read on kottke.org/25/06/death-of-a-fantastic-machine

Everyone reads texts, too, then writes new texts. They may need to pay for getting their hands on a text in the first instance. But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it…

Additionally, our artificial prompts put a large number of important pieces of information right next to each other. This might have made the behavioral possibilities unusually salient to the model. It may also have created a “Chekhov’s gun” effect, where the model may have been naturally inclined to make use of all the information that…

We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined at 20. Life requires a certain amount of curiosity and exploration. Life is an open world game. It rewards you for exploring. And capitalism cannot fucking stand…