I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved. Unions now. Unions forever.

And Ilia too :DD

Thank you for 10k!!! 💙

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A fair question. 😕🇺🇸

one for the "Hey, man" hall of fame

It’s so sad to see illustrators do the “ai is just a tool like any other” talk like they’re gonna get a seat at the table when they’ve sold all the fucking chairs

first encounter

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If you spend decades undermining a liberal arts education, you get college students who can't write a decent essay. But you also get adults who can't recognize a decent essay and sincerely think the issue is the beliefs and not that reading this is painful.

Reminder that Tim Sweeney has been at the forefront of every failed tech hype bubble of the last decade. NFTs, crypto, the Metaverse ... right on the barricades, our Tim. But I'm sure this time will be different.

Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU. Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”

these people make a stink over mediocre people receiving mediocre grades constantly and are not worth engaging with, but i will say one thing: the paper she wrote was worse than a lot of the LLM ones i've received in my time grading which is embarassing to say the least

literally ten times as much as I made working as a biologist for the government lmao. I found two new species of soil thrips in less than a year if anyone cares

Some neighborhood hero installed this gorgeous hand-painted sign at the bus stop.

"Il faut affronter le RN par les idées sur le terrain démocratique" Le terrain démocratique: des chaînes télé de milliardaires qui dégueulent la propagande RN toute la journée, une presse de milliardaires qui fait pareil, des éditeurs milliardaires qui vendent les livres du RN dans LEURS kiosques.

This is exactly why boycotts have to be used sparingly and strategically. When we get to the point of "just boycott all the corporations doing evil," well. Bad news about the fundamental nature of corporations.

1.5% of CPDs budget increase would be enough to fund all the cuts to the library

"A clear violation of the law of war." - GOP Rep. Don Bacon, member of House Armed Services Committee, on the alleged Hegseth order

strong floor no ceiling" is the most focus grouped (uncomplimentary) shit I have ever heard

Absolutely critical than when all these new ICE hires are terminated with no questions asked by the next admin that they not be re-hired wherever they came from. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

James Cameron stayed at the hotel I worked at in OKC a few times a year because his wife is from the city and he was a gigantic prick every single time. Treated all the workers like shit, never tipped, etc. I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.

Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!

Hearing far-right influencer Nick Shirley showed up to a press conference of immigrant rights advocates & politicians and started screaming that Brad Lander (who is Jewish) is a “rat.” He was apparently shut down very quickly. It’s believed Shirley was tipped to ICE’s previous Canal St flop.

Mary and Peter would fall under the "Mutual Pining" trope. They both have crushes on each other, but are mutually oblivious to the fact. Peter thinks Mary is out of his league and would never view someone like him that way. Mary mistakes Peter's reserved and aloof nature as a lack of interest.

The fact that "hypnosis" has become one of the concepts regularly banned on adult websites makes me feel fully insane. We are truly living in the nightmare return of every Christian conservative moral panic we ever laughed at.

Here's the Navy itself describing "atrocities" against survivors of naval strikes in World War II including subs firing at lifeboats www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Fortnite fans are saying "no to AI slop" after spotting what they believe are AI-generated images in-game www.eurogamer.net/fortnite-fan...

Gonna be vague with this one on purpose but I had a recently uncomfortable personal incident with someone who is not a bad person or even a CEO but **very much** of an executive mentality and… now that interaction makes a LOT of sense when contextualized with this 😔

SO... I'm pretty much done with Fortnite. There were statements made by Tim Sweeney saying that AI usage doesn't need to be disclosed, and then AI usage was found all over this current season- from art to sprays to in-game songs. Between that, and the upcoming shitty wizard collab... Yeah, I'm done.

I deleted and stopped playing Fortnite recently. It was honestly a big comfort game for me but that comfort was very quickly becoming outmatched by how uncomfortable all their decisions were making me.

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years. Rahmanullah Lakanwal couldn't hold down a job and he flipped between long, lightless stretches of isolation.

So how was everyone's weekend? 🙂

Let this be the motto of the AI movement.

Glad Schumer finally woke up to recognize war crimes. Meanwhile as Israeli military continues to commit genocide with US weapons & tax dollars—Schumer remains silent. Do you see how your hypocrisy enables these war crimes, Chuck? Do Corporate Dems see how their silence on genocide enables this?

I don’t get the negative reaction to this. one of the kitchen table issues almost all americans deal with at one point or another is what to do about hitting the ceiling. are we really a party that’s going to limit families to twelve figure incomes

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

I have yet to hear a peep about this shooting on the news I’m watching right now. I figured Trump would immediately announce he will confiscate every single privately owned gun, but children getting shot and killed just isn’t a big deal to this administration or the media.

If LLM data centres that serve generative AI platforms were erased from the Earth… …we’d be fine. They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves. If we let them proliferate for a generation, we may lose institutional expertise.

That’s the point. LLM owners want exclusivity for institutional expertise, among other things, so they can charge everyone who wants to access it. Wikipedia is one of their most hated foes since it provides free knowledge to the masses. And everyone should be supporting Wikipedia for that reason.

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

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