ART didn’t respond. It just existed there, glaring at me invisibly in the feed.

AI is "just a tool" but also "every child on the planet must be forced to learn to prompt (train) the machines and edit its output and that is the future of education" do not make sense. If it is "just a tool," we do not have to repurpose the entire architecture, goals, of education.

Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house. “I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.” “Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”

Slightly diminish a book The Assistant Regional-Manager of the Rings

Steal the goose from off the common, before the common gets stolen from off the goose

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

This is it! When AI bros say 'but human art is derivative anyway', they fail to understand that influence hits human perversity, not probability

Heads up Citalopram / Sertraline 100mg medication takers - “If you have been prescribed Sertraline 100mg tablets and have received batch number V2500425, please check the carton contains the right medication. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Millions of us would like a government that is not viciously xenophobic and does not threaten daily the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. But she's happy to ignore us. We don't matter to the Labour government as much as some flag-waving guy who will never vote for them.

Frog pushed Toad out of bed.

The filling lasted 8 days before coming out. Previous one barely 2 hours. Ffs. Is it worth paying £££ for a crown, when I can't keep anything in my teeth?

Going to point at a comet, maybe.

Haircut accident, because I cut my own hair, and have to take my glasses off to buzz the clippers around, but can't see without glasses, and can't see the back anyway. Please nobody look at the back of my head for the next 3 weeks. Thank you.

Last night I picked nettles and ate nettle soup. Now I am hand-sewing a linen shirt. I don't really miss the 1640s, but at least back then when you heard a mysterious Voice telling you to do weird illegal stuff, it was just the Holy Spirit. Or the Devil. Neither of whom waste electricity.

Me, being left behind…❤️

Is the immortal glowing woodlouse Pennywise thing in IT doing ok these days?

Is the immortal glowing woodlouse Pennywise thing in IT doing ok these days?

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

I got Círdan, the ancient woodwork beach hippy who, in RoP, claims to be nonjudgmental but then proceeds to list the personal failings of various artists he has known. 'But we got the brown M&Ms, and then Rûmil went on stage. But as for Maglor... I had to beat him to death with his own shoes...'

An autistic woman longing for human contact has had her hopes repeatedly dashed by the troublesome existence of other humans, it has been revealed.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Also needed bigger anaesthetic needle because of aforementioned hyena jaw. I felt it right in my ear!! I'm still bruised!

At one point the dentist had to call in the male dentist to wrench my tight-packed teeth apart in my jaw with a kind of car-jack because she couldn't bring herself to be brutal enough. It was like Little Shop of Horrors!!

Traumatic 2-hour dentist appt: wrenching my teeth apart, drilling, 'bite down' & I shattered the filling with hyena jaw-strength, then had to START AGAIN - with giant anaesthetic needle - AND THEN I tore my mouth while numb, & returned next day to file sharp edge. I DEMANDED a sticker.

Today in autism news: the clockwork inside that tiny travel-clock is shaking the furniture, and the digital display on the washing machine is whistling.

Without saying your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

Watching The Ritual, and I would be so thrilled about that creature. I would be running out to befriend it. Is this white people nonsense? But I just want to ask it what's going on in its life! If it is what they say it is, then it has thoughts, feelings, maybe language. Maybe it's lonely!

I need to stop rewatching The Walking Dead. Dozed off for fraction of a microsecond during a Quaker meeting, and had a Tina Belcher moment worrying how the popular anti-zombie stance was putting pressure on my relationship with my zombie boyfriend.

I need to stop rewatching The Walking Dead. Dozed off for fraction of a microsecond during a Quaker meeting, and had a Tina Belcher moment worrying how the popular anti-zombie stance was putting pressure on my relationship with my zombie boyfriend.

“conscientious objector” by edna st. vincent millay “Am I a spy in the land of the living, / that I should deliver men to Death?”

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

Good morning. I wish I could express clearly to my students that the students who write poorly-expressed papers with gramatical errors and misunderstandings are doing so much better and learning so much more than students who ask a LLM to analyze an article for them.

Moon's haunted. Happy Wednesday.

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

Apparently our literary magazine ranked our English professors from most likely to least likely to survive the zombie apocalypse and I came in dead last and you know what, they are absolutely right, I was not built to fight zombies, I was built to eat cheese and read smutty books

Exactly what I was struggling to put into words. These people hate bodily autonomy, and self-id trans people especially are living it.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Again!

The right and center left have spent decades defunding public goods. Privatization and “public-private” partnerships have left billions of people without safety nets. This message needs to be hammered home daily.

Event Horizon, and Ripper Street.

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

This is why I think it's so important to be vocal about not using AI. It's also why I think those of us who mask and/or have never had Covid-19 need to be vocal about that, too. There's a general sense of resignation these days borne from propaganda that says "Just accept it. Everyone else has."

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

There is no bright line between "what you are feeling" and "a condition". Deciding you don't want to fund mitigations that work for people, because they work for too many people, is deciding to invest in increasing misery.

It’s cool and good to say “i don’t know enough to have an opinion.” partly because it’s true, partly because it keeps you from looking like an asshole, and partly because it’s permission to others who badly need this behavior modeled before issuing a very stupid declaration and doubling down on it