the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

This could be us but you playin

is the concept that you can kill 40 random people in executing a criminal warrant for one guy

Not the point but honestly insane that these quotes are being posted as if the tool has an opinion and perspective.

[Wakes up] [Reads some romance, feels ready to tackle the day] [Checks news] [Shuts off phone and goes back to romance book]

Not the point but honestly insane that these quotes are being posted as if the tool has an opinion and perspective.

In response to

Channel Firing -Thomas Hardy

Good-bye to all that -Robert Graves (1929)

Dulce et Decorum est -Wilfred Owen (1917)

Good-bye to all that -Robert Graves (1929)

Dulce et Decorum est -Wilfred Owen (1917)

Channel Firing -Thomas Hardy

Has anyone done this yet

"We used a freakishly advanced language model built on trillions of pages of text and crazy linear algebra engines powered by cubic meters of natural gas to achieve a task that could have been done with some dice and a look up table" is like 80% of popular AI applications

More puppy content, you say? Absolutely!

Now that Stranger Things has wrapped, I’m pitching a new show “Quotidian Things” about taking time to appreciate the quiet, normal stuff that goes on all around us each day

#OTD in 1818, Mary Shelley's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯; 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴 was first published. The title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay. #literature #litsky #booksky #scifi #gothic #HappyNewYear

In my lifetime syllabi have gone from a thing professors joked about in exasperation to a bizarre form of state surveillance equally loathed by faculty and students

Someone should write a history of the syllabus. You could learn so much about higher ed just from the changes in these documents.

"And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life" -Moby-Dick

There will never be another movie like Fifth Element because that movie compacted every aspect of 1990s culture in a density equivalent to the center of a black hole (which also appears in the film)

In my lifetime syllabi have gone from a thing professors joked about in exasperation to a bizarre form of state surveillance equally loathed by faculty and students

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

I’m in the back of a Tesla and the guy driving wants to tell me everything he “asks” ChatGPT, this. This is my flare. Send help.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

Cheers for libraries! @illibraryassoc.bsky.social

Solid work here

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Let’s gooooooooo!!!! #TheYearofMid!

Still one of my favorite poems, and a good read for the first day of the year.

Happy new year from the east coast! Wishing you love and peace and spite-fueled victories over your enemies!

Always worth a post

Every book has two parts: 1) the interesting part that helps you turn the pages, and, 2) the weird vaguely sick part that lives in your subconscious for the rest of your life

Always worth a post

Too many book reviews are like “this is a well-informed study of the history of citrus-growing up and down the Italian peninsula. Unfortunately, the author fails to explain how this knowledge helps us to break the power of the Dark at its midwinter height.”

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Greetings, new followers! If you are unsure whether to create timeless art or change the world for the better now that you’ve retired from the internet, I would like to introduce you to the work of May Morris (who chose Both!)

Greetings, new followers! If you are unsure whether to create timeless art or change the world for the better now that you’ve retired from the internet, I would like to introduce you to the work of May Morris (who chose Both!)

Sometimes it feels like academia is an infinite rehearsal of agreeing on 98% of things but aggressively fixating only on the last 2% until broad agreement disappears entirely

Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Also why it’s essential to always be reading multiple books at the same time. Being completely unbooked is a dangerously vulnerable situation.

Also why it’s essential to always be reading multiple books at the same time. Being completely unbooked is a dangerously vulnerable situation.

Finishing any book over 400 pages requires a day after to grieve, several days of it was the last book in the series 😅

Shout out to all us sleepy worms

Great piece from lrb on nvidia and "ai" that helps add to the mid allegations www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...