10/10. No notes.

As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.

Looking at The Last Supper, the paintings & statues crawling over the walls & ceilings of cathedrals in Parma this month, I thought always of their human artists reaching through time, their inner worlds & effort suspended in art. & then of shitheads typing out a prompt to spew synthetic pap.

This should be required reading

This is really good. A clearly written summary of the many harms caused by AI, with copious references.

What would happen if this shit collapsed? Some rich fucks would have to live slightly less delusionally privileged lives. The end. Let it fucking die.

Apparently this is a gluten free pizza crust. This is why I’m afraid to try new things (I ordered another pizza from a Trusted Restaurant)

Today is Indigenous Veterans Day; know why they have their own day: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“OpenAI in Danger” Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Reading a delightful supernatural mystery series, but by book 5 it gets hard not to roll my eyes every time the narrator says, “There is no WAY the dreams/unexplainable noises/feeling of being watched/strange weather can have anything to do with this case!” My dude, you are supposed to be smart!

Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language. LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

It’s even funnier than I thought it would be

Yes, read it, it’s so good!

Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run: Ernie Clement That's it.

English-teacher approved post

Halloween Vibes Book Wrap Up Finished 11 books: (🎃= new fave) Summer sons 🎃 What feeds at night 🎃 Pour one for the devil The Bayou 🎃 The Secret Skin All of us murderers 🎃 Frankenstein Salt magic, Skin Magic🎃 Spread Me Feed Them Silence To Clutch a Razor🎃 DNF’d 2: Botanical Daughter the Z Word

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

This whole thread, but especially this!

Ahhh, @sportsnetpr.bsky.social once again showing why you are so worth the $300 a year (this is sarcasm. In case anyone is wondering. It’s better than tsn, but so is getting kicked in the face).

What the holy fuck is wrong with these motherfuckers? What is it about AI that makes people lose their damn minds and spew bilge from their mouths? (The key thing here is 'licensing deal' which = money, the love of which is root of all evil.)

Perfection. A masterpiece of description. A+

I don't want to exaggerate or be controversial but it kind of seems like AI is a huge steaming shit taken on everything by techbrahs who are not fully normal or human

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Lightning Rock has always been a sacred place for the Semá:th people. Finally, after years of legal disputes it has been returned to the Sumas First Nation.

Finally clawed my way through the Frankenstein audio. Thematically interesting, questions about scientific ethics and toxic masculinity, well written, important, and also I really hated it. It’s a good story, just not told in a way I enjoy. 🧵

Just finished The Bayou by @ardenpowell.bsky.social - delighted that I bought it on a whim when looking for more gay southern gothic after Summer Sons. Very vibey and morally ambiguous. An excellent Halloween treat, and I will for sure be reading again.

@leemandelo.bsky.social has a special ability to absolutely ruin me. Summer Sons is different from The Woods All Black, but equally brilliant and gripping. Grief, rage, queerness, toxicity, terrible legacies, and found family. Another new favorite southern gothic 🖤 Also, the audio is excellent

The downside of listening to a really good audiobook is that I can’t sneak a few pages of reading during the day in the work bathroom

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

Sloppers polluting communities killing trees killing insects and killing the earth bc we decided as a world that thinking just a little bit every once in a while is tooooo harrrrrrd 🥺

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

Amazing. Wish I could do that for all the AI emails I’m getting from parents lately - I don’t need to read florid essays that boil down to “I’m mad at my kid.”

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles Chapter 1 impressions: the cover is 70’s gothic perfection. Amazing set up - love the dashes of humor and self-awareness (genre-awareness?). The ADHD recognition is STRONG - could easily have been a snapshot of my brain. Think I’m in love.

I am no longer saying “I want to eat dinner” because you could replace “dinner” with “children” and that would be v problematic

Yesss, this book is so good! An absolute must-read.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Mystery: Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Yes, this book is one of the best I’ve read this year. Eerie, angry, horny comfort. It is high on my list of books I wish I could read again for the first time (though it will be just as excellent on all rereads)

Halloween-Vibes Personal Readathon proceeds apace. I’m so excited to finally get my grubby paws on All Of Us Murderers 🖤

Even “trying it out” tells the techbro assholes bankrolling it (and wrecking YOUR environment to do so) that people want it. Think of it as dressing up as a N*zi or Klan member for Halloween: even doing it in jest strengthens the original message.

Yes, this right here. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas said “art is not a noun, it’s a verb,” describing it as a co-creation of artist and audience. AI has no place in this.

According to Indigenous Watchdog, work on 16 calls to action hasn’t started, 22 have stalled, 42 are in progress and 14 are complete.

LIVE: Remembering the Children Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours and remembers the children who were forced into Canada's Residential School system. It was first observed as Orange Shirt Day in 2013 and was elevated to a statutory holidy for federal workers in 2021.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this