Which is to say: If the LLM, given ALL OF THE TEXT as in it was given the dang science papers, cannot convey more than one point, overhypes it, and oversimplifies to the point of wrongness, when given ALL OF THE INFORMATION... Why are you using it to write your term paper?

Literally.

Humans: Ah, the human brain, a masterpiece of evolution, truly we are so creative and problemsolving and artistic and smart we are the BEST. Also humans: NOW, how do I make sure I literally never, ever have to think.

I’m immediately closing my account with Nationwide and moving my savings elsewhere. My partner is doing the same. I would recommend everyone who is not a fascist to do the same. Plenty of other options.

Anyway well done to the BBC for laundering the leader of a movement which in no substantial way differs from the 1970s-style National Front into our living rooms

USA having an ethic cleansing. UK watching, wide-eyed. "I want one of those."

The hell?

this barely even made the news! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The study says that stability of gender identity was observed in over 80% of *all the kids in the study*, ie trans kids AND cisgender kids, and 11.9% of participants who originally identified as cis *no longer did* at the most recent report. The Economist is completely misrepresenting the data.

Please read and share widely. Also, the phrasing is so transparently designed to frame transness as a “phase.” It’s the gay panic of the 90s all over again and they’re not even trying to hide it.

Quiet as it’s kept, “dialogue” won’t cure what ails this godforsaken nation.

But at least he didn't recognize the state of Palestine. That would truly be antisemitic.

An exceptional sunset this evening with an exceptional puppy 🐶

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

More Arendt for the moment re Disney/ABC et al: “It was precisely the members of respectable society, who had not been touched by the intellectual and moral upheaval in the early stages of the Nazi period, who were the first to yield. They simply exchanged one system of values against another”

FFS. Obama was among the first to jump on the coddling of the American mind bandwagon in 2015 to admonish college students not to “shut down debate” w/people like Charlie Kirk so maybe he can spare us the moralising.

my plan for the next ten years is to not get eradicated

The lesson for the english is all European countries have been hurt economically by Covid, Ukraine & the global downturn - but, you have the additional problem of brexit, which is stunting growth. Fun fact: NI is still in the EU SM (for goods), post brexit - the Canary in the coal mine. 6/7

This poem goes pretty hard, and captures the essence of why Wooderson’s being a dumbass bsky.app/profile/kame...

Do NOT do this. Shout louder. Me and all the other nsfw artists need you to shout louder

he's spent the last 18 months claiming trans women are a serious risk on women's wards i don't believe a single word he says this is a man who spent the election calling for segregation and who has almost entirely replaced our healthcare with conversion practices based on christian pseudoscience

I just realised that the Palestinian flag in my handle was replaced at some point with a white flag. I’ve added the Palestinian one back in but am wondering if this has happened to anyone else..?

WHAT.

The performative Conservative outpouring this week has nothing to do with their love for him and everything to do with their hatred of the people he hated.

Gennaro felt it was time to remind you of just how cute he is!

My nap schedule is now decentralized.

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My favorite sign of the night.

This website is excellent: olivia.science/ai

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

The wildest thing abt this to me is that Shiv is young enough to have been in HS when blogging was a thing bc in my mind he’s like a 55-yr-old early adopter of social media part of whose USP is being down w/the kids aka millennials. (See what I did there? 🤓).

I cannot share or quote enough from this essay-qua-manifesto. Please read it, share it with your network and WITH YOUR STUDENTS. (I would, but I was made redundant, so). Crucially: you can assign this even if your employer has decided to “embrace” AI, on the grounds of prompting critical discussion!

Please lie! I'm one of those who has a long-term condition as a result of multiple COVID infections. I'd like for you to do all you can to protect yourself and the vaccines help! Wearing an N95, advocating clean air (and maybe even filtering the air yourself) are things I also think you should do!

They all got the wrong lessons from sci-fi books

So much of this tech bullshit is billionaires going, oh cool, it's the future now, so in the future it's supposed to look like this. Bro is it ok if we stay human? No pressure to live up to 1930s sci fi & give up the good parts of having bodies & souls.

I think you are exactly right. I think maybe when we talk about it we should bridge that gap intentionally. So like "just like Putin in Russia and a return to McCarthyisms dark chapter in our own history." Give them a touchstone they know, and remind them of one they choose to forget.

idk why we have to keep doing "This is such an asian thing" America had McCarthyism and its in a culture Americans are much more familiar with than the Russian Federation lol

This is fair.

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

I don't think you should be allowed to take credit for ending a war if you don't know the names of the countries involved in it.

Well this is exciting! Lili Anolik’s 2019 Vanity Fair piece (& subsequent book) is how I discovered Babitz, tore thru her newly reprinted ouevre, & ended up assigning her alongside Didion in the California wks of my 20c US lit class. I’m intrigued to see what she’s done in this bk abt the 2 of them.

This tickles me especially b/c (a) my family/friends’ nickname for me is Rachi Raccoon and (b) I’ve been told I can’t be taken anywhere since I’m guaranteed to say/do the wrong thing. For example, throwing a tantrum when my ex-dept replaced the free paperback book scheme for students w/ebooks. 🦝🦝

I have long theorized that British royal marriages break up because one spouse has an entire staff telling them that they’re right in every conflict. What a thing to democratize.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

Kimmel off the air is not cancel culture. It's state censorship. The FCC Chair abused merger approval authority to do it, and the president touted it saying no one should be allowed to make fun of him. Don't play into the BS that complaining students or social media posters are equivalent to govt.

Social validation triggers the release of dopamine & is highly addictive. ChatGPT capitalises on this. ChatGPT tells those seeking relationship advice what they want to hear, which “furthers their worldview, or narrative version of events,” at the expense of understanding their partner’s perspective