Currently yelling at ER right now because no one is taking care of their med student!!!!

why do things have to be shrouded in mystery why can’t they be shrouded in hot dogs

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.

My general resistance to gen AI in my personal life is that I don't want to talk to a fucking computer. I shut off Siri. I wouldn't use Cortana. I will override my millennial aversion to phone calls to break through to a real person. I will not be having a conversation with a computer, ever.

It's so infuriating when something you enjoyed turns out to be AI. I want to be able to laugh at funny videos without hyperanalyzing them. I want to marvel at a nature photo without having to question whether the bird is real. I want to enjoy art with wonder, not suspicion, and yet, here we are.

i know people are probably tired of seeing this but i have 45 participants with a goal of 280. if you qualify for the survey, please consider taking it! if you do not qualify, it would be very helpful to repost and boost in your networks! (also i am very happy to answer any questions)

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced— <wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear> Apparently this is precedented

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with the lights out it’s less dangerous from the icebox plums cry “save us” “we’re for breakfast” “please don’t take us” but we ate them we feel heinous they were tasty please don’t blame us

It is fun to dunk on the former Premier for using government to monitor citizens calling into question governments commitment to safety. It is also very scary that the petty former Premier was spending tax dollars on concerned citizens speaking up when they saw government failure.

Super Mario

I mean...I was criticizing the government from inside a GNB building, couldn't have been that hard to find.

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Reading a book about chess??? Voluntarily??? Me??? Today has been so weird.

RIP my dreams of getting another season out of my all season tires (one popped on my partner’s drive to work this morning). Buying new tires is unbearably boring.

The way some people talk about AI reminds me of a professor who was insistent we have Twitter for academic purposes during the semester I took a class with them and instead I just used it to build my reputation as a local mild shitposter. I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here.

A lot of senior managers do not understand the difference between being "one of the best" (🤢) within a thriving intellectual ecosystem and just being the last one that still has library subscriptions and a Romance Languages department. As far as they are concerned the latter is, if anything, better

This seems to be a growing trend amongst political leaders. Don’t like the scrutiny that comes with the job? May I offer a humble solution? Do something else. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ACAB includes ppl wearing "wearable AI" and im not joking

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

It IS a very good day to lie on the bed knitting and listening to folklore and evermore (still the best albums of her discography).

takes a true scholar of the bible to struggle with naming a favorite testament

“Thanks Gwen,” is what I say every time I find something the previous owner left for us. She died shortly before we closed on the house, and so we like to reassure her spirit we love this house too. Anyway, thanks for the chairs, Gwen, they look great.

Doing Spring Things: pulling patio furniture out of the basement (we have two loungers that have been sealed in bags, from the previous owner of our house, and we’re going to open them for the first time!)

I was blessed to be interviewed by Suzanne of @halifaxexaminer.ca fame! While the province seems adamant to let libraries wither on the vine, I've been working to make sure we can at the very least keep operating as the great institutions we are. By unionizing!!! ^.^

My job is subject headings.

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there is a really beautiful essay in here, and no one is talking about it because folks on here are permanently stuck in "discourse about the headline" mode. I would encourage you to not just post a pitchy response to the social copy, and actually read a thing,

it seems to me like either: these websites are now run poorly these webhosting services are run poorly the internet is haunted by a really mean ghost

My parents are getting a community mailbox for the first time in their lives. Stay tuned for all the conversation about this. (I have also never had a community mailbox, so I will be carefully observing their experience.)

Oh you’re Catholic and you disagree with the Pope? Maybe you should make a list of all the things you disagree with. Really dig deep, make it a nice long list. 95 seems like a good number. And then post that list somewhere he can see it, like maybe nailed to a church door.

bluesky is actually paying homage to an ancient internet tradition known as "signing off." it is a lost art, but people would "disconnect" and maybe return to the family computer after finishing dinner and homework

Everything is 2FA hell now.

THAT’S IT! IF YOU KIDS DON’T PIPE DOWN AND GET ALONG, I’LL PIVOT THIS FAMILY VACATION INTO AN AI STARTUP FASTER THAN YOU CAN SAY “ARE WE AT AGI YET?”!

if you’ve never heard of a popular band, France makes a statue out of bronze and gives it to you as a gift

"I'm a serious scholar," I say, while uncapping my purple glitter highlighter to note up an article.

Why is it that price signals, the manifestation of the free market, are some innately wise force when it comes to housing or groceries — but when gas prices rise, we should do everything we can to blunt it? Are drivers exempt from the free market? Are there no alternatives to driving SUVs?

Sometimes Facebook gives great gems, aka someone I know posted about how apparently Caledonia High (grad class of like, 30) is currently beset by parents warring over where prom is going to be held. People are losing their minds in the comments. Parents are posting pictures and arguing about it.

MacDonald bridge closed Friday evening to Monday morning

I guess my point is that bad or bland info is already in the environment and LLMs are making things infinitely worse. 1 bad or bland thing gets SEO'd by the google algo or gets passed around by LLMs, and all bets are off. Good luck out there. 9/9

I am not a fan of organized religion, but I AM a fan of history, and the fact that the Pope is currently fighting online with a world leader who photoshops pictures of himself as Jesus is as good as anything I ever read about in university. Get him, your Holiness, waste him on X the Everything App

I did 12 years in Catholic school and they never taught us about the Pope's approach to crime

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Last week I was sick and also in an online course so I have done nothing! NOTHING! to be prepared for any of the things I said I would do this week. Sorry to everyone who's meeting with me and gets to hear how I'm holding them up!

Delighted to see the awesome @lmcampbell.bsky.social ranked the #1 🥇#Deaf researcher in the world based on h-index (see precise methodology here stats.unusualverse.com) Recognition like this matters. It's not just for the work itself, but for who gets to be seen as shaping the future of research.

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...