Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Here’s a literary palate cleanser: the first page of Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year. It’s a book about community & vulnerability & resilience. It’s the best thing I’ve read this year.

I randomly discovered this morning that Zoom on Mac might be recording the content of your screen and audio, even when you're using other applications. (No I don't remember giving Zoom permission to do this.) 1/2

We’ll be on the streets on 9/28. In the meantime, please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being unsheltered homeless. Thank you. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/79b8c1580 Living-in-car wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Please step up for them, all amounts are good & boosting is free 💕💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost

please follow them, they need followers and more of a voice💕💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

in 12 days i will be on the streets. please continue sharing and boosting my fundraiser. it means everything right now.

cars are not meant for living in. but there are ways to make it less stressful & more safe. an ESA dog & her human need your help as we prepare for unsheltered homelessness on 9/20 or 9/25. please boost and share. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/ddc3bd802

if you’ve never had to live in a car before, then a living-in-car needs list is alien. help us get window shades, can opener, carseat covers, and more for a 2004 car. having the items on this list will make a big difference. ‼️ i can only receive mail until 9/25. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

we need to build more community power and connections. too many people powerless and defeated before they even try. i want us to be supported and resourced and held. we are stronger together.

if you’ve never had to live in a car before, then a living-in-car needs list is alien. help us get window shades, can opener, carseat covers, and more for a 2004 car. having the items on this list will make a big difference. ‼️ i can only receive mail until 9/25. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

the last thing homeless folks need is to be arrested, fined, or cited for being poor and unsheltered. titling and registering a car out of state takes time and resources. there is always time to make a difference. there is always time for mutual aid. we’ve got each other. please share. thank you 🪷

“Public college & university faculty who face a threat of sanction by their institution or have been punished for expressive activity—whether it’s instruction, scholarship, or speaking on issues of public concern” FLDF’s 24-hour hotline 254-500-FLDF (3533) www.thefire.org/defending-yo...

i’ve been job-hunting since February, and was in hospital due to medical emergency in late Jan-early Feb. i had a temp gig from May-June, but cannot find consistent work. if i could have left before, i would have. please share and help a homeless ESA dog and her human.

we need accomplices, allies, discomfort solidarity, action.

I’m ill. I can’t afford healthcare. Even if I could, I don’t have culturally competent doctors/specialists. All of my bills are 50-100% higher than they were a few years ago. Rent doubled. Major work loss in creative fields; income loss. A highly-cited paper I co-authored was force-fed into gen ai.

I grabbed toothpaste, deodorant and tampons the other day: FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

fr tho, it's very funny/horrible how closely the results of ChatGPT mimic being extremely wealthy and surrounded by yes-men

“Public college & university faculty who face a threat of sanction by their institution or have been punished for expressive activity—whether it’s instruction, scholarship, or speaking on issues of public concern” FLDF’s 24-hour hotline 254-500-FLDF (3533) www.thefire.org/defending-yo...

“This document (1822) was to certify that a 32-year-old Boksoe sold himself and his wife as slaves for 25 nyang. Reflects tragic state of late Joseon society, when the poorest had to sell themselves to wealthier families to survive. [yellow hand emoji] The handprint might represent signature.”

item 14: an elegant linoleum block print (8x8") by Evan Delano of a Palestinian sunbird in an olive tree holding a key in its beak

We’ll be on the streets on 9/28. In the meantime, please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being unsheltered homeless. Thank you. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/79b8c1580 Living-in-car wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

“may we conspire together to create a world that is both gentler and more just” credit: Hope Healing Arts (Insta)

i have nowhere to stay beginning 9/28 and i feel terrified.

And please believe me when I say, I will assess these things with the eyes of someone who has watched many many people without anything at all risk *everything* to make change. Have as much or more courage than a script supervisor or a camera operator or a story editor with $7 in the bank.

"Street sweeps need to end." "When city workers confiscate personal belongings like tents and harm reduction supplies from people sheltering on the street, it increases their risk of non-fatal overdose and physical and sexual violence." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Drugs #Housing

Let's get some more reposts at least, please? 🙏💚

now at 37% thankful. please get us fully funded before a year passes. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/f43779f7

still no Novavax at the local Costco. out-of-pocket cost for Pfizer and Moderna with a Costco membership and with no insurance is $141.99 for both brands. (i am uninsured.)

Esmé says do not obey in advance

nobody knows better than a homeless person that fascism has been here and that systems of care were eroding well before 2025. we’ve lived collapse in real time.

i’ve been job-hunting since February, and was in hospital due to medical emergency in late Jan-early Feb. i had a temp gig from May-June, but cannot find consistent work. if i could have left before, i would have. please share and help a homeless ESA dog and her human.

“here’s the uncomfortable truth: those with more resources have to be willing to be inconvenienced. care and crisis don’t arrive neatly scheduled. they disrupt. they demand. if our only model of care is what fits easily into our own lives, then we are not practicing care—we’re protecting comfort.”

“I hated how Westerners were always asking to itemize the bill at dinner, how they never took enough responsibility for, say, inventing fascism and nuclear weapons, or for instigating the Bengal famine.“ bidoun.org/articles/hou...

First: ANTIFA not an actual organisation. Second: It simply stands for ‘anti-fascism’. As such, it is difficult to characterise this as anything other than a pro-fascist declaration.

Cistus “McGuire’s Gold”— its leaves may be a little garish, but I like the flowers, and the way the fallen petals look like little hearts. 🌱

[blog] All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents By @maelle @cderv @zkamvar An overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it […]

wow! now at 40 percent funded. thank you to everyone who shared and boosted. please help us fully fund this GFM before a year passes. we keep us safe. V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund.me/f43779f7

crying it out with Korean men in blue pajamas and Kim Beom Su youtu.be/IplwkimiBbI?...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Also people who are good at making friends should start offering how to make friends workshops [I AM NOT JOKING].

Surveillance as a service

“I hated how Westerners were always asking to itemize the bill at dinner, how they never took enough responsibility for, say, inventing fascism and nuclear weapons, or for instigating the Bengal famine.“ bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Homelessness is a fundamental violation of the social contract. It is a policy failure, NOT a personal individual failure. They’re coming for the most vulnerable. If you punch down, ask yourself why. & then consider that integrity, kindness, & interconnectedness are the true immutable life values.

it really does feel like i don't deserve to be alive if i can't afford housing or even a used car to live in. it feels terrifying, bleak, and familiar.

100%. People are cruel. I've been job-hunting since Feb.* I can't get on a lease w/o proof of income. The judgment, scorn, & mockery of the owning class & those with family are meant to cut people like me down. I want better from people & better for myself. But material conditions I cannot control.

I don't think people understand how executive function taxing it is to be homeless. To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.