This Hyundai ad kills me. Teen band is making noise. Neighbors look annoyed. Dad puts them in the car and DRIVES THEM TO THE WILDNESS. Stop making hating kids a personality.

The genAI/LLM accessibility tool argument pisses me off so much. Like half the authors in my feed aren't disabled or chronically ill in some way (including myself) and writing their books without ever touching this shit. This is just using accessibility as an excuse for their entitlement.

PSA: if you use an LLM to do your writing, no you didn’t BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR WRITING!! YOU ARE NOT A WRITER. You extruded some text from the plagiarism machine. YOU ARE A PLAGIARIST. YOU WILL NEVER BE A WRITER BY STEALING OTHERS’ WORDS.

A hot take that really shouldn’t be that hot: Separation of church and state is as beneficial to the church as it is to the state. It prevents the state from being dominated by one religious group’s agenda. And it discourages the church from seeing worldly power as its goal and salvation.

not just that, but you were super wrong for a long time before you were vaguely sorta right? that sounds more like an important Magic 8-Ball to me.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Happy Friday from this guy

I love how, throughout human history, we've had artists be like "I love this little guy, I'm going to create something that honors him."

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Korean people are genuises. I don't love making and eating vegetables, but I can eat a little bowl of kimchi alongside my ramen and get in a serving of vegetables with almost no work involved.

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf” is pretty funny.

Nobody was bothering you when you were snorting heroin off a toilet seat We let you do your heroin in peace

it's no one's fault but the person who was where they definitely weren't supposed to be, but still awful, and add it to the list of weird, dangerous, tragic shit happening in and around airports right now.

folks, I grew up to marry one of those books of random trivia I was always reading when I was a kid.

husband wanders over, apropos of nothing: the Battle of Bunker Hill didn't happen on Bunker Hill. me, without missing a beat: yeah, it happened on Breed's Hill. him, nodding: the Battle of Bunker Hill happened on Breed's Hill. me: you weren't expecting me to know that fun fact, were you?

this is the sort of thing I would say to let you know I was being held hostage.

Jail. Jail for 1000 years

When my school system figured out I was autistic, they forced me into computers classes under the assumption that all autistic kids are "like that" and I would just be fine. Instead I found out that I hate computers on every conceivable level and marketing is a scam. I'm not that kinda autistic.

that's true but as a rule if I don't like something the first time, I assume it wasn't cooked/made properly and I try it again from somewhere else.

What the hell is this white people nonsense

I don’t think it’s at all controversial in terms of food studies/food history to say *most* food takes are, or can be used as, proxies for slurs on one subgroup or another. It’s why I am, at best, deeply suspicious of “lighthearted” food hot takes here & elsewhere.

BREAKING: A Frontier Airlines flight departing Denver International Airport for Los Angeles appeared to strike a person on the runway Friday, an aviation source briefed on the incident told ABC News. Fire crews were dispatched to the aircraft to extinguish the engine fire.

Excellent job President Deals

anyone else in Vancouver getting beat up bad by nasal allergies?

they do one thing, reliably, straightforwardly, and without ads. you can just listen to an album or watch a movie, start to finish, uninterrupted by some asshole trying to sell you more stuff. yes, product placement existed, but it didn't take you out of the experience.

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

if you ride the bus and post enough times about it, the bus agency starts inviting you to things (laudatory) (heartwarming) (life-affirming)

Really, I once worked with a software engineer, on a community product, who told me "I just don't like how people act in groups." I was like, okay, we can design for that, but isn't that what the software we're building does? And he sighed and went "yeah" and that was the end of the conversation.

I'm sensitive to this because back in the day when I was building community software I would sometimes get into arguments with people about specific features and designs and eventually it would come out that the person just hated people and hated listening to them talk.

agreed! I am pro humanity, yours and mine, in all its wondrous messiness and complexity, which is why I am so anti-AI.

Another one for the "every AI booster is a misanthrope" file.

how on earth is BrainWorm McStaleRaisin claiming to have the *good* genes? it drives me nuts how supremacists of every sort fail so miserably on their own rubrics.

I always think of a little old lady I ran into once who was able to place my dialect to a t without having any of the linguist vocab. She just had the ear and the interest in it, and if she’d had the opportunity she‘d have been an amazing linguist.

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

does anyone know of good sources that come down very much on the "pro" side on the debate about whether poetry should be "accessible"?

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

wait. wait. these fuckers can't write 40 pages double-spaced without using LLMs? I think my Masters thesis was nearly 200 pages (qual research, so a lot of quotes, but still!). I would have to check how long my dissertation draft is.

I wish people could understand. I once had a client accept a guilty plea - when I had absolute evidence he had not committed the crime - because they were going to make him sit in jail until trial.

And even then whether those elections mean anything is...up in the air ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

"Only white people were opposed to genocide" is a breathtakingly fucked up thing to argue in public.

Idk if y’all are following the Canvas hack story, but apparently whoever hacked it is holding each uni’s access to canvas for ransom. Grades are due for graduation and no one can log on. 😬

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Them: you have to take this pill for the rest of your life! Me: yes, but I will have the rest of my life

French prosecutors open criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

In the 1960s there was a rabidly antisemitic & white nationalist preacher named Ken Goff who spoke at hundreds of churches around the country. He posed as a "patriotic Christian anti-communist," but he ran a paramilitary camp for neo-Nazis. A huge # of churches he spoke at were Assemblies of God.

Might've been a somewhat bad idea to put literally all teaching, learning, and assessment tools and identifying information for university members on one universal hub. 🤷‍♀️