genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

When I'm 35+, I am going to run for president solely on a platform of requiring vinyl to clearly specify which side is the A side and which side is the B side.

Music hot take from your favorite local guy with too many opinions about rock and metal: As a rule, bands who release albums trying make it in the mainstream are not the problem. Bands who phone in their next album after breaking through are.

Is ADHD a superpower? Probably not, but while I'm not doing my dishes or my job, I am thinking of the most devastatingly funny quips you've ever heard, so at least there's that.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Might need a new favorite band but idk yet

It may still technically be winter, but the frat boys are out playing basketball and at least one of them is shirtless, which means it is officially warm weather season.

really thinking conspiracism is the opiate of the masses. is every evil thing caused by a bunch of elite (possibly jewish) pedophiles, or is there solidarity between the rich, men, and between rich men, plus those who don't fall into those categories but want to reap the benefits of patriarchy?

The ADHD urge to start a podcast with the homies

Begging y'all to learn what a tisane is

Took a bluesky break but y'all know I had to come back to anxiety post about cosplaying as an (adult and) academic

Hi, Epstein did not create the GCs. Researchers for the last ten years have been telling you over and over about the collection of forces that resulted in the GCs. There is no conspiracy. Just a bunch of political actors collaborating in their mutual interest.

A Black Man's Breakfast by Foxy Shazam is one of the greatest songs ever written youtu.be/U_RHXOXFMxs?...

Has there been some kind of #PokemomTCGPocket update where the card I pull from my deck is less likely to be a pokemon? I'm struggling to beat the step up battles because I lose instantly with only my basic pokemon out and a hand of supporters.

The funniest part of being on fellowship is that when I get a job (if I get a job) ((if I am ever employed again)) they're gonna stick me in a classroom and I am going to have forgotten how to teach

Confidently assured almost half a dozen people I would be finishing a draft of my dissertation today. I am currently illustrating it instead of writing it. Wish me luck.

Here's what imposter syndrome is like: - I got an interview request -I responded selecting a time for the interview - I shortly received a response and IMMEDIATELY assumed before I could even open it that they would be letting me know the request was in error and I am not worth interviewing

What's the chance any of the people in my phone know how to replace the belt of a suitcase model record player?My records are playing very slightly slow and I am BIG intimidated.

Why the fuck is "incredible" not the opposite of "credible." "You're incredible" DOES NOT MEAN "you lack credibility established through mutually agreed upon metrics" and UNCREDIBLE IS NOT A THING. AAAHHHHHHHH !!!!!! If only I knew a rhetoric scholar who could remedy this via neologism. Alas!!!

The hardest part of getting a PhD has been registering for credit/research hours every semester. Picking an advisor was second, and writing the dissertation is definitely not in the top 5, maybe top 10.

I thought binary men and women queers had finally learned this, but this is your regular and very tired reminder that "they/them" is not a fucking gender :)

Karen Hoyland, 40, who believes that “we’re all on the spectrum somewhere” also enjoys daily Zumba classes, has the TV and radio on at the same time and lists the supermarket as her “happy place”.

One minor life inconvenience away from buying an mp3 player

70k words in the dissertation. Please clap.

Plus you can draft off their new enthusiasm.

If it's really "transgender for everyone" then where the fuck is my T and top surgery duuuuuuude

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

4.5 years into a PhD in rhetoric and composition and I'm still less clear than I'd like to be on whether "kairotic exigence" is a redundant phrase

Nickelback and Creed need to do a huge summer tour together and in promotional material say "dad rock is back, rock(stars)". I would be so good at band PR?? Somebody hire me!!

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

*clears throat* it’s not vaccines it’s not Tylenol it’s not circumcisions it’s not bubble butt it’s not circumcisions it’s not Tylenol it’s not vaccines & it’s not a fucking problem Autistic people oppose cure, condemn it as eugenic rhetoric & that should be the end of the conversation the end!

Do we think jobs will be more likely to hire me if I dye my hair half green and half blond again?

Time is liminal and so are my thoughts in my brain: Just wrote the date as next year (12/26/26). In my defense, the last two days have felt like three years.

"Kids these days can't stand not being on their phones" —boomer and gen x types who feel entitled to be entertained 24/7 and look at their phones the second you stop paying attention to them and tune out the entire world to do it

YES. Every time we are expected to say “AI has SOME good uses”, even though the kind currently discussed (the slop producing kind) is not the same thing as the “good at spotting statistical anomalies” kind, and that disingenuous bullshit is to try to make people shut up about the slop engines!

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Guess I'll post this again

"Mild" autism does not exist: "No one I know lives the life I live outside of work in order to cope with the demands of the job, and yet it seems that, surrounded by health professionals, not one of them knows what autism looks like outside of Rain Man." autistwriter.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/b...

Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.

You cannot "have" neurodivergence. One person alone cannot be neurodiverse. Neurodivergent is not a synonym or more polite way of saying autistic. Every person in the world has a neurotype, a way that their brain works. Add many neurotypes together and you have a diversity of them. Neurodiversity.

Today's rant from your favorite grad student: "Exclude" and "disclude" (or "uninclude") need to be two different words. There are two ways somebody can be not included: passively, by not being invited into the group, and actively, by being kicked out. We need a word for each.

This checks out to me. There's a certain kind of person who, when you honestly (and seemingly fairly) evaluate your own ability at something, they will tell you to stop being so negative about yourself for acknowledging you have room to grow EVEN IF you said you're good, too. It pisses me off.

I wish Greg Landsman a very "may your hot coffee be cold and your cold coffee be hot"

The PhD experience

Lifesaving research: gutted. Vaccines: restricted. Science: ignored. Enough is enough. RFK Jr. must be removed from office.

I'm getting over a cold, where is my government-mandated overnight sex change?

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