Apparently this got my friend the day off

So my work Mac is USB-C… so I gotta find a new cable for my various external drives, I assume

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

My Hero Academia Sabbatical

Heard an interview with her on NPR last night and she was so cool. RIP

So the new perfect blue looks pretty good, but I felt super trauma’ed out by the third act… perhaps I just wasn’t in a place to watch it again. I was also totally alone in the theater, which was odd. Maybe the lack of audience excitement left me feeling flat?

RLS: Why they let Jared Leto *near* Tron is lost on me. Dude stank up the screen in Blade Runner 2049.

Alone at the Perfect Blue screening. Awesome.

I finally finished the Kowloon Generic Romance anime. God it’s so good. You’re allowed to regret things, you’re allowed to miss things you love, you’re allowed to admit your mistakes. And you’re allowed to persist.

Took me a second to place this but… Aaron North from The Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails.

That moment when you run into a Mima cosplayer are your arms are just long enough to do something cursed

Had our best class so far reading a piece by @shannonmattern.bsky.social that @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social introduced me to. See guys?!! I occasionally do interact with academic conversations and take hints (No back to constant noise rock posting)

I think it’s about time we focus on the best part of neurodivergence: alienating horrible people I would never want to be friends with

Greensboro vermicelli moments are good moments

“Here’s some good news” and “Death” in the same sentence tonight. www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/08/08/p...

Martian successor nadesico except instead of gekiganger 3, the jovians base their entire civilization off of hatsune miku

#anime fans: I've embarked on my first viewing of the Cobra TV series and discovered something fun. Especially if you're a Macross fan. /1

“Here’s a ton of basic factual errors, third hand info, conjecture, and conflation. I’ve done zero critical reflection, and no review of the texts. This is all to criticize something for my own attention. I am a very smart historian.” These “much critical” research folks are… something.

“Ayo Char! Where’s Garma? Where’s Garma?!? Char!!”

Like

Places journal one-two punch this upcoming week… Hope students are into it!

Saddest 6 word story ever told

Feel called out for this but “fear and trembling” is the jam

So far Proof of the Man is *incredible*

AWA was a great return to paneling experience and they were very nice to me. I was also told I look like I was cosplaying Dave Merrill.

the one trick mods don’t want you to know

My occasional terrible dad puns keep the legions* of fans coming. * - … I never got back to my Twitter numbers, which weren’t that great even with the Cory Doctorow RTs. Mostly because I sorta can’t be bothered

I wore my zimmerit power armor hoodie while teaching last week and got complimented by a student over it. High praise. Happy 10th!!

This looks *rad*

Messiah of Evil (1974) Apocalyptic horror masterpiece in which a young woman's search for her missing father brings her to a California town overrun with ghouls Written and directed by the husband-and-wife team of Willard Huyck (BOTD in 1945) and Gloria Katz

Color matching the mobile cabin with a scene in GITS I forgot about

David RV gets an upgrade. I’ll fabricate a custom window replacement to put the fan on the driver’s side back window

“Crusher, why is my sister named Dawn?” “Well son, your mom named her after a thing she considers beautiful and perfect.” “Thanks, papa Crusher.” “No problem, Craig Mack’s ‘Flava in Your Ear’ remix featuring The Notorious B.I.G., Rampage, LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes.”

Exhausted all day, felt ill, and then went to bed… napped for ten minutes, woke up feeling odd/weird, now I’m awake against my will. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Bears camping in spawn?!

Shout out to the “I’m trying to write a Fred Jamieson book on here” academics, with your 30 chained posts about whatever at any given time. Y’all the real MVPs, for serious*! (* - if you wanna blog? Then just blog.)

Oh look there’s Blue Cross Blue Shield charging me for healthcare I canceled Friday because I have a new job. Awesome. 500 dollars gone. Time for my new favorite game: Yelling on the phone. Spectrum, you got company!

They’re tuning down… are we gonna get Melvins songs?!?

Band playing grunge covers from Alice In Chains and Soundgarden in the student Union pit. Singer does not have the voice to eff with the vox, tho

… huh!?

If I get eaten by hounds…

This is a meme I made.

Having to really rethink my ability to do panels at cons right now. Free time is always out the window. I rarely, if ever, took time off during school. I don’t see myself starting now. I love that stuff, but it’s a lot.

*wave*

H O T. D A M N.