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At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

I can't believe how difficult it is to find sexy pinups of the Arbiter from Halo for Christmas gifts. The one time the internet has let me down.

i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems

it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

reminder that local bookstores benefit enormously from people treating buying from them as a virtuous kind of commerce but unless your local bookstore has strong union protections or is structured as a worker co-op or something they probably don't pay their booksellers a living wage

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

1. Good riddance. 2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

my most compelling reason for why ai shouldn't be used in animation i that i want to see freaky shit made by the whackiest perverts imaginable

the “anti-fascist popular front” is big enough to include actual fascists (MTG) but not the most vulnerable targets of fascism (trans people, migrants), because they’re not actually trying to construct an anti-fascist popular front.

An attack on VPNs is nightmarish, ghoulish, completely unacceptable www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We have arrived at the stage of the GenAI grift where we pay to outsource pleasure. It will be quantified and reported back to us on a scale from meh to mind-blowing.

The conciergification of U.S. society is further eroding basic appreciation. This has bled into all aspects of life.

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

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I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

seeing a lot of people talking about borders and thought i'd cut right to the quick: we have duties to those we share our lives with, those we share our communities with, and those we share this existence with. the only role of the nation is to blind us to these

"Fuck moving forward. Screw coming together. We are going to hire a team of prosecutors so large it needs its own building, fund them so well they have their own helicopters, and instruct them to go after everyone who broke the law from the White House to individual ICE agents."

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time. No more hiding behind election terms.

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I realize that my primary job is helping people sort out their romantic lives but... good god damn at some point I'm going to need to write a VERY long diatribe at how elevating romance to being more "important" than friendship is why so many folks are single and miserable.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

nobody's interested in kayfabe when they can't afford the admission

I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

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they’re playing in our faces because they know millions of us will still shuffle our feet and avoid each other’s eyes while we Lesser of Two Evils our way into hell. no. no. fuck them. fuck this. no.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

My god but the Democrats will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, won’t they? Somehow @schumer.senate.gov & company saw America rally behind them a few days ago & decided “well we can’t have that can we?”

Chuck Schumer is about to lose his job (positive).

Claiming that getting a vote destined to fail as a win is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

even if they’re really dumb enough to cave, the amount of real-time rage being generated at the dem leadership is inspiring. if the democracy stays conscious just long enough for another election we’re going to get 10,000 zohrans in every city, every state, and also the white house.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

It’s because they want to stop the progressive Democrat victory momentum last week in its tracks because they can raise more money as perpetual (controlled) opposition to Trumpism

Nothing would be more in character for the current Democratic party than to look at the victories of Tuesday and immediately surrender

The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.

It would in fact be throwing 10s of millions people out in the cold without any clothing. Again, how would this make sense to the Democratic party???