I wonder if I could make a little side cash by being a semi-pro DM. I have a small assortment of one shots that I like running regardless of how many times I do them, some of which I made from scratch. I just don't know if I can find four people at a time to pay $10 for 4-5 hours of entertainment.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Time to update the GTP Historical Game Studies bibliography. No gatekeeping here. Please just 1 format your entry in a way comparable to the other entries 2 indicate the heading it most fits under or give me a new heading I will put it in. DMs and emails are fine. (Please repost)

Made some Nutella chocolate chip cookies to celebrate finishing my first round on a state exam committee here in Olomouc. But it's the weekend so I can't take them into my colleagues like I normally do...

I think a lot of people don't know that pretty much all the LLMs have to read the entire chat history every time you press enter. You're not just sending the reply you typed, you're sending the entire conversation each time to be processed so it can spit out the most probable next sequence of words.

Alright, everyone, sing it with me: 🎶 LLMs, they cannot think, that's why their outputs always stink 🎶 (use the tune for the Mr. Plow jingle)

Alright, everyone, sing it with me: 🎶 LLMs, they cannot think, that's why their outputs always stink 🎶 (use the tune for the Mr. Plow jingle)

well, here's a nice metaphor as we work on dreaming the next chapter after this one:

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

and 'dialogic' is grad school for 'meh, they're both right, I guess'

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Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Dude's fireball was bigger than Roman's. Why are we subsidizing these failsons? youtu.be/th7uDG6Hf8Y?...

I have already learned to love and cook with tvarůžky, a local protected product of the Olomouc region. It gets glossed into English as "stinky cheese," but it's really just a very sharp and salty cheese, not super pungent. Melts nicely into sauces and eggs.

and 'dialogic' is grad school for 'meh, they're both right, I guess'

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

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Darn. I ordered a portable AC unit last night hoping it'd be ready for pickup today, but the payment didn't go through until this morning and so it'll be ready tomorrow. But I'm hot nooooooow.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Japan is, in actuality, not that unique or special.

Pope Leo is 🔥: "So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships...nor do they have a moral conscience... a form of statistical adaptation...does not imply inner growth."

Damn. Saw a mobile ad for a phone game that looked like a nice little distraction, but then I noticed that the talking face overlaid on the gameplay was def AI slop. Sooooo, no, I won't be downloading Clash of Critters.

Japan is, in actuality, not that unique or special.

A Japanese carved boxwood group of turtles, 19th century

Best take down of AI I’ve seen

Feels like they're leaving out a very important detail upon the landing...

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

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What Claude can't do: "I’ve come to realize that my value as a professor is not that I know facts about the Chinese political system, it’s that I can organize and humanize those facts. I can model enthusiasm for a subject and humility about what I don’t know. I can get something wrong."

I'm firmly of the opinion that if a student does the work, achieves the SLOs for the course, and completes enough of my assignments the point thresholds I set, there should be no limit to the number of As that are possible. I set hard standards. And many students rise to meet them.

AI cannot destroy higher education without help from professors. Sadly, many are choosing to help. Peer review, GTAs and GRAs, tenure assessments, feedback to students . . . these are all systems we need to protect, not delegate to the robot prediction machines.

I love that the concept of a Torment Nexus has its own wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment... (It's when a tech company makes some SF tech that the actual SF story was warning we shouldn't create)

"If you introduce an infinite paper-writing machine to a system that defines productivity by the number of papers written, people will use it to write a lot of papers."

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

We need to get comfortable just doubled-over belly laughing in the physical face of people who say things like "the Odyssey is a factual historical account." We've evolved to have shame hardwired into our brains as a powerful social weapon. We must use it responsibly, but this is responsible usage.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

This resonated. I read it right after reading a long and clearly AI-generated email to a local politics email list that was somehow simultaneously overheated/empty and divided by meaningless subheadings. It's like reading bubblewrap. www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

It may be exhausting and break my brain, but this is why I give detailed feedback on papers. It will make them better writers for every other teachers' sake.

what every “how to incorporate AI in your humanities classroom” article/email/workshop looks like to me

Last re-skeet: yeah, I clicked through to that dumb "here's what we know about you" page and it got almost all information wrong. Thought I was in Prague, wrong browser, wrong angle for the phone. It had the stink of something fishy. Glad to know my instincts were spot on.

it smelled like chatgpt garbage, and lo and behold it's just scaremongering for ai services. get thee gone hallucinatory disinformation machine of fascism, may thermite get poured on your servers

Just deleted my Linkedin. And nothing of value was lost.

Re the canvas hack but also *gestures wildly*

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