for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLwe...

NEKO CASE 4EVA www.stereogum.com/2323680/weve...

Part of what's funny about conspiracy theories lately is that the people in power *are the ones who believe them*. They are literally in charge, they are literally the Man. "The government is lying to you about-" My brother in christ, you are literally the president

Criticism about AI in schools mostly focuses on how it allows students to get away with something (by using OpenAI to write their essays). But shouldn't we be talking more about its detrimental effects on teaching and learning than on how it impedes our ability to evaluate students? is.gd/acOSmQ

In a similar vein, I think Princess Diana would be a wellness influencer

"Ezra Pound's fascist origin story is that a Latin professor told him he sucked" also translates surprisingly well to 2025.

Saruman the White (Bread)

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

what doesn’t kill you, texts you 6 months later

Living room repaint before/after. Still a lot to do (rehang drapes, replace the blinds and the ceiling light, swap in gold light switches and socket covers, hang art, etc.) but it feels much fresher.

Most money reports post LLM hype have been pointing out how heavily the market is made up of few tech companies and how they are so heavily dependent on AI returning on investment when the evidence is not there. Too big to fail is not strategy, it's despair www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

As you think about how to respond to Portland news, maybe think about dif between rhetoric of Newsom & Pritzker. Newsom mirrored; Pritzker spoke clearly about just how dangerous the moment it is. Do you want to be glib? My argument is that the main agency we have now is precision of language. 1/

Mary A Thorax England and Wales, Census, 1891

Got my performance review.

hope the foreman likes the progress so far

And the more and more this goes on, it is starting to become clearer that there are a set of people who can't call it like it is, who trade in a set of evasions, equivocations, who will go along to get along. 13/

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos. Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass

conservatives would crumble into dust if they had to actually exist in the world unsupported by their billionaire sugar daddies

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

SIR MIX-O-LOTL

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Every British schoolboy dreams of becoming a viceroy someday

Map Of The Entire Internet In 1969 Source: businessfibre.co.uk/interne...

warning: dangerous levels of kittens

Morning walk

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

"If we can't say absolutely that AI is causing harm to students and learning, it must be considered instead as a real benefit to education" is the asbestos defense.

This dude charges almost literally 10x what I do and he’s misrepresenting study results while I panic if I spot a typo in a report after I submit it

Labour MP Clive Lewis' Robin Cook Memorial Lecture last night was very interesting... "Where is our government? Where is the leadership this moment demands? Where are the voices for truth? We can look but all we see is a PM fighting for his political life."

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state. Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

Hey! Someone figured it out!!

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

Please don't call it that

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

They've lost the 9yos

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Ruin a book with a car: Pride and Peugeot

APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

I think about this at least one week per month. For reasons.

Just remember, no one wanted to study ways to treat an extremely painful disease that affects 1 in 10 women (and is probably underdiagnosed), but they WERE willing to study that disease’s effects on perceived attractiveness.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Chotiner: so you sat out most of the war because your general took your slavewoman. Achilles: I proved my point. They couldn’t manage without me. C: do you think that makes you look better or worse? A: Well, I did’t kill him. And he brought her back. C: son of Peleus, thank you for your time.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

A few followers saying baby fingernails are like bird talons as if we've never been picked up by large birds off a volcano after completing a life-altering quest that required great personal resilience and sacrifice and while it was happening thought wow these talons are really dangerous.

this actually depicts the world’s first game of Battleship.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

On two occasions, taxi drivers have told me that selling surplus milk is a very lucrative business.