i just heard my stats professor scream from the other side of the country

final paper: oh 7 page minimum without abstract, title, or references? easy final discussion post: a 5-10 minute presentation about the evolution of my research project? I'M SETTING MYSELF ON FIRE. GOODNIGHT

in response to the excessive media that we are surrounded by in this day and age my brain has decided to retain zero (0) information

the democrats should outsource their rhetoric to tween and teen girls, the most vicious word assassins in all of creation

okay!! that was really hard for me to do!!! i drafted that whole thing last night and waited til today to post it because i didn't want to cry in bed by myself!! i'm gonna go work on my stats paper now thank you guys i love you!!!!!

I'm going to do what's like pulling teeth for me: Ask for help. I have about $700 to my name right now since my EDD benefits dried up, and even with my achievement scholarship I owe $1,354 for my final class by May 31. You all know how much I've put into my dream grad program over the past 2 years.

me for the past week :)

oh look me for the past several days

lrt if my fic ever blew up like el james or whatever i'd start hyperventilating and fall down the stairs i do NOT want that, my fic is for the sickos (i say with love, myself included) who seek it out imagining having to look my mom in the eye and explaining to her my kpdh yaoi. sickening

apropos of current discourse, i think if you're only interested in writing fanfic because you want lots of comments and adulation and praise, you should stop writing fanfic. of course you're yelling into the void — that's what fandom is. if you're not in it solely for love of the game, then leave.

The college grads in open revolt against pro-AI speakers is a reminder that this isn’t about a failure to adopt technology. These students are the first generation to have had language models throughout their college experience. No one wants it. They want an education, not a four year sales pitch.

I am so fed up with having AI rammed down my throat. I don‘t want any of it. I don’t want your stupid machine thinking for me. I don’t want it chewing things up and spitting out idiot goo that purports to be efficient. I don’t want the theft and corrosion of everything original there is. Eff off.

Playboy created a Bluesky account and their first post is to complain about AI. They already understand the Bluesky userbase better than the bluesky devs

oh my god the vancouver transit system, the bus drivers etc, want to strike JUST BEFORE THE WORLD CUP IN VANCOUVER............ Y E S. YES!!!!

i need a gif of grace from phm just peeking out of the airlock into the void of space, just saying "no." and retreating because that was my exact reaction

Here we go again

I think this take crashed bluesky

I've learned that people just want answers and don't particularly care if the answer is right. Some will ask AI something, I'll point out that it's demonstrably wrong and they'll say "Oh, well. It's fine anyway."

the idea that you have any rights -- to live, to not be executed in the streets, toy not die frozen in a ditch -- is being actively arbitrated for the vast majority of the populace right now, all but the turbo rich. kind of a crazy time to put "you can usually sell your labor for food" in some doubt

it's creating so many new problems for workplaces to solve. on a medium timeframe they'll announce their layoffs, carve up workforces, then quietly start hiring again to fix all the problems created by fewer dumbass humans supervising more dumbass robot processes

I finally figured out the problem with most Americans. They treat every mild inconvenience like an attack on their rights and every attack on their rights as a mild inconvenience.

banning social media for under 16s is really fucking stupid when the only people who have their brains melted by it are the over 35 year olds and it just gets worse the older you get

going to michaels and squeezing all the oil paints into a big bucket and drinking the resulting slurry with a crazy straw

A PHM mini comic about Grace growing old. 1/3 #projecthailmary

for the vibecession people about to post a chart and say "actually, you have more money than ever!": here's a nice new working paper showing how the real-wages calculation is very bad at measuring purchasing power in periods of high inflation that you should read papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

this is a masterpiece

get in loser, we're going insane

stopped clock principle

anyway have i talked about my belief that the ideological/rhetorical core of contemporary conservatism writ large is born and borne of california republicans' "the permanent boot on my neck (losing elections with unpopular ideas) justifies any response, including violence" grievance politics lately

excellent birth story 😆

Life got you down? There’s a nap for that.

Please read this and then the response below.

“are you willing to participate in nonviolence? Because if you only demand it from others, you're not nonviolent. You're just hiding behind the bully and giving the victim a thumbs up while they get pounded. That's a violent position if I ever saw one.”

it's 2:36 am and my sleep paralysis demon tonight is remembering out of the blue that kate mckinnon and bari weiss used to date so you're welcome

2 kings

hell yeag this pilot's speakin my language

everyone drop some unhinged/silly/funny stuff i can add to my tomodachi life island lingo e.g. "9/11", "Charlie Kirk's distressingly tiny face", "CBP Minions challenge coin", "OSHA violations", "straight jorkin' it in the club", "fuck around and find out", "committing tax fraud", "old man yaoi" etc

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that