Cincinnati, Ohio

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I love that Stephen brought John on for this. So many wonderful people have worked at CBS over the years, it's sad to see how far and fast it's falling.

Totally predictable: the people who want to take time from public education for the religious indoctrination of children are sex offenders.

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

Wow. What a terrible district. I can't imagine denying that accommodation.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

I'm old enough to remember when the DoJ had at least an ounce of credibility. Amazing how an entire institution can be thoroughly trashed in less than a year and a half.

What. An. Asshole.

What a disappointment this guy has turned out to be.

Writer announces that he's a self-absorbed dick in first paragraph of article: "I hadn’t heard of the Commonwealth Prize, so how prestigious was it really?"

Make this illegal and let's see if the "fertility crisis" resolves itself

We asked AI if the story was AI.🤦🏼‍♀️

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

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Years ago, the admin at the high school where I taught wanted us all to put a sign in our classrooms that said "How will I use what I learn today?" I refused. Learning has value outside of utility. It's inherently valuable, whether or not it has utility. It can be a joy, not a job.

I would love to have been in my MFA workshop when someone brought writing like this in. They'd have been crucified, and in a hilarious way. Andrew Hudgins would've mocked it for the full 3 hours.

Stupider and stupider.

Fuck that.

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

Risks???

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Thanks, TechCrunch for letting me know Google is trash.

From my own personal experience, for anyone doing AI- assisted work on race, slavery, colonialism, resistance, and violence... DON'T. I tried running some writing through AI, and it would strip out language about race and violence. "Ask" it why, and it will gaslight you.

THIS THIS THIS THIS.

Your grandma uses gen-AI? Mock her gently but relentlessly. Your students use it? Mock them savagely. Your favorite writer uses it? Mock her loudly and whenever she appears in public, because with the use of it, she has become a tool of the fascist oligarchs who want to kill us all.

Am I blocking everyone defending her? Yes, yes I am.

Anyone who thinks the "sanctity" of confession is more important than the safety of a child is, quite frankly, a monster.

The thing is, he didn't mean anything he meant in the first paragraph about "the future hasn't already been decided," which you can tell by the second paragraph, where he says the future has already been decided.

Same!

Well, I tried. Unfortunately, her costar is annoying as hell.

At this point, OSU is just a punchline. Signed, an Ohioan

Brooke Shields starring in a cozy mystery? Okay, I'll watch...

Barf

Met up for brunch with one of my dad's friends since 4th grade today. He and his daughter had flown in from Hawaii for an Air Force Museum event. These two guys are turning 92 and still going strong. Lots of great stories.😍

Good lord, you know there are morons who'll willingly do this right away.

So true. And those people couldn't survive a day as a teacher. Just the sheer number of human interactions and split-second decisions would make them crumble. Btw, I loved teaching. But after 31 years, I was emotionally exhausted. It's both exhilarating and exhausting, and machines can't do it.

“They’ll never be a good cog if you deny them AI.” The other thing about that claim is that a literal monkey could use AI; it is not some Da Vinci code—it’s about not thinking, not *thinking*. Prompt and click.

People who say things like "kids need to learn how to use AI so they aren't left behind" unwittingly sell out the very purpose of education, which is supposed to be about learning so you can shape the world, not learning so you can fit into its seemingly inevitable imperatives

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The Martin Short documentary on Netflix is lovely. After watching it, I started watching Jiminy Glick interviews on YouTube, and I'm sure my neighbors are annoyed by my outbursts and howls of laughter.

Ben Affleck is gross in so many ways already. Here's one more...

I remember when the NYT had a good reputation. I'm old.

Dean Young ♥️ “…I come undone, undone.”

I really wish Kanopy would stop being the clunkiest possible streaming app. So much good content, so hard to find, so hard to watch...

Major Breaking News 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

Rarely have I seen a guiltier motherfucker.

It was a bad idea to read this first thing in the morning.

Trans rights are OUR FUCKING RIGHTS & we have to fight for them whether we think we will ever use them ourselves or not. You don’t have to be family or a friend of a trans person to get it. You just have to be a good person who believes the government has no right to tell us who we’re are or aren’t.