I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

The conditions for which they’re refusing vaccines look mild to them because they’ve never seen how bad they can be, which is only possible if most of the population does its job. Vaccination isn’t just a personal choice, it’s about fulfilling our obligation to our community to keep everyone safe.

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

I was even aware that this happens to people and didn’t realize it was happening to me until the last year or so. I still don’t have an exact diagnosis but I can’t walk or stand longer than 10-15 minutes without debilitating hip and knee pain.

and to be clear: pretty doesn’t really matter and it’s all fucking subjective anyways and you deserve love and care and your fucking needs met in any body and anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to sell you something or some kind of f*scist or frankly both

Straight men are the unsung proponents of disordered eating RIGHT BEHIND white women. Protein pushing. “Bulking up.” Diets that are 99.9% meat and nothing else. Not to mention leaning on purging disorder (excessive exercising). Oh, I have been WAITING to talk about it.

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

Good Lord, not this "trend" again...like seriously. I know we're running back the worst of the worst due to outside shit, but leave heroin chic in the fucking dust. I beg.

Why Graham Platner is a working-class impersonator. And why the online left can’t see it. A THREAD.

Hello friends, still working on getting paid for my hours lost to injury

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

and everyone wants to forget that it was liberals (specifically jenny mccarthy and oprah) who resurrected the debunked work of a man whose license was revoked because of it

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.

Oh, you support women? Then put a fucking purse hook in your public bathroom

Oh look this is relevant again

I like how these guys get to have it both ways they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it

Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.

Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme Stop embracing surveillance tech

It is positively dumbfounding to me that literally ANYONE still has Alexa in their homes, neverminded that they're lining up to buy literal surveillance sunglasses

I don't care if Trump gave an adulting consenting man a blowjob no matter who the man is--though if he did this endless list of anti-LGBTQIA+ thing his administration did is once again a new circle of monstrous hell--I care that he sexually abused children.

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

So many people are cheering on white people for repeating what I've been saying about COP...it's just slightly different wording but exactly what I've been saying the entire time only to be met with 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 I'm glad more are talking about it, but these people ignored it for months and months

I think this is what enrages me about the whole effort to get Nuzzi back into the limelight But also, I really don’t care about some privileged White woman’s agonising over her affair with RFK jr; I only care about the millions he will maim and kill for his pleasure/beliefs

White men: you are never, ever, EVER getting us on board with "we have to all come together to make sure racist white men are comfortable at the expense of everybody else." That dog won't ever hunt.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

LLM based AI is essentially a mirror of human creative output. It’s using math to regurgitate text and images created by humans in a form that is plausibly in answer to the prompt.

Yes, this. Also, the way you prevent most non-white-collar crime is providing a robust social safety net. People who have enough food and secure shelter and access to healthcare are not usually desperate enough to steal or harm others.

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

Wielding power over the powerless is the mark of the bully. Wielding strength against the weak is cowardice. Real strength is when you have such power, but choose to use it in defence of the vulnerable instead. That is the mark of the true warrior.

This is a wild misunderstanding of what cities are like and who lives and works in them. Unless you work in commercial real estate, remote work isn't destroying your city.

If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

100% true. Some of the best critics of AI are computer scientists or engineers with a holistic intellect: people who truly understand the tech and therefore its limits — eg @cloudquistador.bsky.social. It’s not a matter of tech experts versus intellectuals. The AI cultists do not understand tech!

Regarding the transgender women in sports “issue” here’s why it’s about transphobia and not fairness🧵 There are two schools of thought on this: 1. Men are in women’s sports. This is a problem. 2. Transgender women do not seem to be disproportionately outcompeting cisgender women. No problem. 1/

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

So if a newspaper writes negatively about suspending Sarah Kendzior and Link, if a couple journalists get on this and ask you for statements, you'll finally talk to us about those wrongful bans and what your secret policy is?

Journalist friends, you know what to do. Sarah Kendzior was suspended, she doesn’t know why, and the head of T&S said he won’t confirm whether or not the suspension was intentional unless media requests hit a threshold

Why won’t you tell Sarah why she has been suspended?

I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

I love this.

Anyone who's ever been through it knows that financially vulnerable people are tossing the same twenty bucks back and forth. There's never been a fucking Robin Hood. Just other people who lived it and know.