Hasnain says:

"Muybridge’s accomplishment was reported widely throughout the world, and many began to hail Muybridge as a photographic wizard. When it began to appear that Muybridge was stealing all the limelight, Stanford tried to discredit him. In the book Horse in Motion: as Shown by Instantaneous Photography, written by Stanford’s friend and horseman J. D. B. Stillman, Muybridge was mentioned merely as a Stanford employee in a technical appendix. Subsequently, the Britain's Royal Society of Arts, which earlier had offered to finance further photographic studies by Muybridge of animal movement, withdrew the funding. Muybridge ended up suing Stanford, accusing him of wrecking his reputation. But the lawsuit was thrown out of court."

Hasnain says:

I think the author has drunk the AI kool-aid a bit too much, but there's some interesting insights in here.

"Text is becoming something new, that’s what I mean.

We’re inventing the camera and Photoshop simultaneously, and all their cultural repurcussions, and to begin with this means new apps with new user interfaces, and where it goes after that I have no idea."

Hasnain says:

Looks like NYU also took their site down. Sigh..

“In November, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah was set to be the first Palestinian published in the Harvard Law Review. Then his essay was killed.
Today, he became the first in the Columbia Law Review.
Then the Board of Directors took the whole site down.”

Hasnain says:

“We cannot build movements for solidarity and abundance if we do not fight against the carceral state—it will always stand against us. In tandem with the Israel Defense Forces, police crush dissent and uphold the racial capitalist system. If we do not escalate against them, we will not survive. To flourish and to build a world beyond the nationalist death drive requires us to reject the illusion that cops and prisons provide safety or serve the public, to stop their ever-growing plunder of public resources—and to abolish the police entirely.”

Hasnain says:

Yay malicious compliance.

“Oxford City Council said the European Union flag required planning consent following post-Brexit legislation.
Ms Bearder said she has now told the authority she is flying the flag of the Council of Europe, which is identical and does not require consent.
She served as a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 2009 until 2020 when the UK left the European Union (EU).”

Hasnain says:

“My favorite observation about this technique, due to a Reddit comment by Bob Nystrom, is that it essentially reinvents the idea of a bytecode interpreter. The Expr structs are bytecode instructions, and they contain variable references encoded as u32s. You could make this interpreter even better by swapping out our simple state table for some kind of stack, and then it would really be no different from a bytecode interpreter you might design from first principles. I just think it’s pretty nifty that “merely” changing our AST data structure led us directly from the land of tree walking to the land of bytecode.”

Hasnain says:

“We hear a lot of talk and speculation about why young people in America are so passionate on the topic of Palestine. From the students I was listening to today, the connection is clear. They see in Gaza the destruction of heritage, the obliteration of knowledge, the assault on institutions of learning. Far from seeming like a world away, it seems like the world in front of them. There’s been an assault upon the obligation of each generation to pass on to the next generation the intellectual legacy that was passed on to it, and whether the site of that assault is Gaza or the New York City school system, the problem is systemic. For people who are coming of age now, it’s also personal.”

Hasnain says:

Climate change :( With the heat waves around the world and now this…

“Mexico City gets about a quarter of its water from the Cutzamala system, a series of reservoirs, water treatment plants and lengthy canals and tunnels, which is running dry. Some say the system could be unable to provide water by June 26, known as “Day Zero” in the metropolitan area of 22 million, although scientists say rainfall could avert that disaster. As of May 21, the Cutzamala system is at 28 percent of its capacity, according to the Basin Agency for the Valley of Mexico, a historic low.”

Hasnain says:

“The Israeli government evidently felt Bensouda was vulnerable because she came from a tiny African state, the Gambia. One source for the Guardian explained the Israeli government’s thinking: “With Bensouda, she’s black and African, so who cares?”

Israel misjudged Bensouda. She impressively resisted this intimidation effort. Once she received assurance from the court in February 2021 that Palestine had sufficient status as a state to join it and confer jurisdiction, she acted. Her term was about to end in June 2021, so she could have handed the problem to Khan, but instead, in March 2021, she opened the investigation that has now implicated Israeli officials.”

Hasnain says:

““I think these statements blow me away, the scale of these numbers with young voters,” Evan Roth Smith, Blueprint’s lead pollster, told Semafor. “Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.””