Using poetry to trade (usually) light insult - playing the dozens but in rhyme - is a recurring tradition in many part of the world. In Darfur it is elderly women (hakkama) who often carry out the practice, and it also serves as a repository of local history and knowledge in those oral cultures.

Latest #workinprogress #oilpainting

“I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”

Hate reading a paper where they define a problem extraordinarily well & then double down on the worst thing you can do to address the problem. #Bummer 😔

best not find yourself saying "people have different definitions of opt-in"

Also time again to read The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl.

Writing a poem about hubris. It's going to be FANTASTIC!!!

UNRWA continues to support children in the #Gaza Strip through temporary learning spaces and distance learning. Between 26 January and 1 February, over 68,000 children took part in activities in shelters, while nearly 300,000 children used UNRWA’s digital learning tools. #UNRWAworks

between storms I find a dry path pale rainbow #vss365 #SenryuSunday #haiku #senryu #poetry

What happens when a non-Christian teacher invites the students to pray with them? Let’s find out. This is bad guidance on the part of the Dept of Education, but they’re so unaware that other groups of people exist, they won’t see that one coming.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

In short, race is not a personality. Gender orientation is not a personality. Nationality is not a personality. Age is not a personality. Class is not a personality. Disability is not a personality. These things are all catergories of human, encompassing EVERY POSSIBLE personality type.

Idea: before we decide to equate LLMs with Stephen Hawking, we should equate other human beings with Stephen Hawking. How much do folks know about prevailing assumptions about & subsequent treatment of people with motor impairments? Should we treat LLMs with more respect than we treat them?

The best guest host for the Muppets would be Werner Herzog

Milan Adamčiak. Echo, 1966

We need to get away from Skinner in education. Only external behavior matters, with no acknowledgement of internal processes. You train people rather than teach them. It’s very top-down.

Poet Elizabeth Bishop, born on this day in 1911, on why everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/e...

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SELF PORTRAIT IN AN OLD FOREST leaf me alone me alone leaf leaf alone me alone leaf me

no bar too low our lives in limbo #senryu #oneline

The duality of every vibe-coded project you see and every LLM-generated pull request you review being dangerous insecure messes and then turning around and hearing every respected figure in the web dev community saying these tools are now better than human developers

THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):

From the 'Floral Armour' series by Tracie Peisley, UK textile artist, designer, art therapist #WomensArt As seen in the womensart book 'Unravelling Women's Art'

As Joe says! Hear, hear. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Sudoku 2’00”

There’s definitely things afoot tonight.

How many things that are impossible come to pass, if only because the people who did them didn’t know they were impossible?

When most people think of AI in education they probably don't think of scientific journals old enough to exist online as black and white photocopies. Here's a cover from the first volume of the Journal of AI in Education 1989/90. It contains a really signficant paper...

When one tries to really computationally reason through what a belief in the possibility of AGI must entail and/or assume, it becomes mind-bogglingly obvious how little thought goes into the formation of those beliefs

The current definition of human intelligence, if you’ll pardon the analogy, feels a lot like Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of p*rnography. “I know it when I see it,” with everyone seeing (& knowing) through their own eyes.

We are more than the data which describes us

How would you know if something has “humanlike intelligence” if you aren’t working from robust definitions of human, intelligence, or human intelligence? #questions

Layperson with no background in computer science, but was curious, whatever happened to fuzzy logic? Traveled over to Wikipedia to read a summary. It feels an awful lot like a binary system dressed up to look like it’s not, like Choose Your Own Adventure.

“[Our] current scientific style is abetted by our tendency …to case the results of experiments in terms of their support or refutation of various binary oppositions ...Innumerable aspects of the situations are permitted to be suppressed ... 1/2

Because, here's the thing. We're told: "it's the way of the world; it's human nature," as an excuse for every act of cruelty or selfishness we witness, in the hope that we'll just stand by and watch. But it's not human nature. It's human choice. And we don't have to stand by. We can stand up.

And here are my collages of the Round 1 winners of #StileCup2026 showing the distribution of successful stile types for your new stylish followers in this place 🤩

Need a headshot & this is why I didn’t already have one.

It’s very moving to see children step up, learning to exercise their right to free speech & peaceful protest. But we must never look to them for hope or leadership. They’re supposed to be looking to us. We’re the adults.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 712: Male writers: if you're uncomfortable writing women characters, then write them as men, and flip them in edit. Too many otherwise excellent male writers seem distracted by boobs, and forget that women have exactly the same range of character types as men do.

If you fall behind, you’ll be ahead when people turn around.

Penny Evans, ceramic artist in Australia who creates works that embody her Indigenous Kamilaroi/Gomeroi cultural heritage #WomensArt

AT > AI Tech is helpful, if it’s actually what is needed & it’s accessible. Otherwise, it’s just a way to use disabled folks as an excuse to keep your cash flow going & as a shield against legitimate criticisms. #Disability

It’s interesting how much assistive technology supports for providers & provider supports for users seem to have collapsed in the US in the past year. It’s tech. Surely we’re cutting edge on this, right? Then how come it’s going backwards?

Good morning.

Day 12 (last day). The Communication Bill of Rights includes: 12. The right to individualized, working augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems and other assistive technology (AT) at all times. It’s all about access. Do you have what you need to say what you want to say?

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It's funny that LLM's sucked up so much SEO slop, so much utterly meaningless ad copy, that they enormously amplified certain words and phrases into almost semantic satiation. Like when you see the word "game-changing" you barely even process it as a word, it's just meaningless botsign.

You can make art entirely with found objects. You can't make "AI art" without a computer and internet access.