Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

I have lived all over the world. I have never seen a city mismanaged the way Philadelphia is.

Just saw a Botox commercial where a woman talked of her “moderate to severe lines” like it was diagnosis “This is the worst part of my job. I’m sorry to tell you that you have stage four crows feet”

Bummed I never got to see him live. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

This is brilliant.

Little known fact: I had a college radio show for a while. Most of what I listen to is still college radio. (WBJB, WFUV, WXPN).

I feel this. Although I go hi-tech for audio production all the way, nine times out of 10 I use it as a virtual tape recorder to force my hand.

We have permanently damaged the scientific reputation of the CDC and our country writ large. Worse, we have elevated hucksters and idiots to a place where their nonsense will kill or maim thousands.

We are not a serious country.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-n... #philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Make the 2020’s the 1920’s again.

Worth a look for those interested in a cogent breakdown of exercise intensity

Fight the power.

Ask ChatGPT something you an expert in. It fails almost every single time.

Hi. I can tell you responded to my message using ChatGPT. You just lost a customer. See ya.

Beautiful ride out of Point Pleasant. No fish yet, tho.

Best find in last night’s insomniac internet adventures! www.mutualofomaha.com/wild-kingdom...

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

Reading A Farewell to Arms again and loving the little funny treats Hemingway drops from time to time. 💙📚📚🖋️

I’ll give you a call this week. Right now I’m in the middle of something.

True.

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Of all the unhinged things I have found during my insomniac internet travails, this may take the cake. youtu.be/PKPmNeZSjf8?...

Direct-to-reader is the way forward.

There is no earthly reason this or any similar device would work. There is no way to stop brain injury in football. You can change rules to mitigate risk, but make no mistake: if you choose to play, you are at risk.

Students don't pay top £$€ for "information" they pay to get an education which is eons far from getting an answer to a question, it is learning how to *give* answers to a very diverse set of questions, so GO home ChatGPT, you are not a teacher!

Jaws The Exorcist Aliens Frankenhooker

the books outlast the tyrants, always will. Milton lives, the Stuarts are gone. Lorca lives, Franco is gone. Isaac Babel lives, Stalin is gone. Bolano lives, Pinochet is gone. & onward

“Dr. Paige’s husband, a chef, can support the family. But the sudden loss of her work, especially as Ebola rages on, has plunged her into a deep depression, she said. To keep busy, she volunteers at an animal shelter and takes long walks…But she feels, she said, as if she were “walking through mud.”

Chicago lost one of its best today. RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. I met Tony through Steve Earle, whose LP covers frequently became canvasses for Fitzpatrick's artwork. Jon Langford & Tony collaborated on a tribute to another one-of-a-kind Chicagoan, Lin Brehmer, at the Hideout in 2023 (pic below). (1/2)

Imagine saying this to DAVID FUCKING SIMON. It’s like telling Ray Harryhausen “I could imagine you thinking, boy, I wish I had had CGI to solve all those thorny stop-motion problems.”

For your #booksky 💙📚📚🖋️reading pleasure, this rare gem from my college writing prof. Dr. Leslie was a superb writer, teacher and mentor. His characters are as real as they get. He died of lung cancer in 2013, but our last conversation was what convinced me to write the book I’ll publish next year.

“In 1961, when I was just eight years old, I contracted measles. There was no vaccine available at the time. Like many of my classmates, I suffered through dangerously high fevers — mine reached 106 degrees — and nearly died. The disease left me almost totally deaf.” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

This article by @radiofreetom.bsky.social is a must read for all those wearing the uniform, but as importantly for all those wanting to maintain our Constitutional republic. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Boom.

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This week’s (re)reading: Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. Source of one of my favorite quotes: “I’m crazy… it’s just like being in love except it always works out right in the end.” 📚💙 #booksky

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them. How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care www.propublica.org/article/heal...

I will ride or die for Zelda.

Maybe the Looney Tunes short most relevant to our times: 1956's TO HARE IS HUMAN, in which Wile E. Coyote creates a computer to think for him and slavishly obeys everything it tells him to do, no matter how self-destructive.

Preach.

Me, except Jaws, Star Trek, and first-pressing Bob Marley vinyl cc: @drmarkburnley.bsky.social