Question: Would communist smut be incomprehensible to most people and lack titillation due to the need for rhetoric about the revolution?

Headed to Minot, ND for work. Also checked out Fallout 4 on the Switch 2. Seems to work well.

Since when is a computer program a “peer?”

As a former special education student that was desperate to succeed on the merits, and deeply involved with young people who struggle themselves, this is mindblowingly bad. We’re also the group of students that are first accused of being indifferent, lazy, or hostile to education.

At least Louis XIV had periods of time where he hated himself for being unable to keep it in his pants.

At least Amazon Prime is just as good as when it started. Oh wait.

I don’t care about your robots, Sam. I care about humans.

It really seems like Microsoft bought a ton of gaming companies with the public intention of being a video game powerhouse. Then in the last year or two it cancelled games, killed off studios, made the future of the platform questionable....and decided the entire company should be about AI.

BREAKING: Xbox boss Phil Spencer is stepping down, will be replaced by Microsoft AI platform president Asha Sharma. Sarah Bond is also leaving. Matt Booty staying. Seismic news for the video-game industry.

When computing becomes challenging to afford under any circumstance, that spells trouble for our economy and medicine and human services in general.

Mark Zuckerberg is certainly winning over his users

Don’t worry. His whole schtick is being smug.

Could be a relatively safe thing to say about popular television and radio media as well.

While there is political overlap here, it’s also fair to say that most normies don’t get this AI thing and are also likely to be annoyed by it.

Christina Bothwell, “Sleep” (c. 2008) #Art

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Wasn’t the climax of “Idiocracy” centered around AI running the economy and agriculture into the ground?

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

An email that isn’t exactly selling itself after learning it’s cutting 1/3 of its resources!

6 more weeks in North Dakota is a given. The debate is whether or not we will have snow in April or if it goes into May.

My sister just said this about Finn and Sombr.

It’s building muscle. When I was in my late teens I had to intentionally watch films from the ‘70s and before, because they were filmed differently and do not have the bombastic soundtrack mixes that films from the 90s-onward did.

2020s tech bro brains reading this

The really bad thing is that they don’t adequately staff their stores to begin with. So the self-check out kiosks were a means for the customer to get around bad corporate-level customer service.

The whole thing is crap.

Mental health: you should be able to get help without traveling far or being kept from family and friends. Special Education: Kids and young people with disabilities deserve to have an education that prepares them for adulthood, helps them get jobs, become tax payers and responsible citizens.

The way people talk about History it’s as if they are waiting for some sort of History God to come from Heaven and judge the actions of humanity. Someday.

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.

If you don't have training in actual historiography and the methods of professional history, you have no idea of how freaking tedious history work can be -- it takes a LONG time to do good history work. That is the nature of the work and there are few exceptions.

I’d point out too that public spaces have now become actively hostile to children - banned from malls, no skateboarding, etc - so children can’t be alone even often if parents are ok with it

Oh, Jaffa, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

So, the Haidt effect on social democratic governments will be something future historians will have to work through.

"I've been obsessed with space since I was a kid," Chan said” So, since 4 years ago?

Nicholas Biddle was right. Andrew Jackson was not.

Dude bro culture leads to interesting linguistic places.

Ads are also costly with tech. Maybe it’s my imagination, but my older Roku Ultra is running slow because it’s constantly trying to read ads for the Home Screen.

“Ours is a progressively technical civilization: by this Ennul means that the ever-expanding and irreversible rule of technique is extended to all domains of life. It is a civilization committed to the quest for continually improved means to carelessly examined ends.

Maybe don’t have the AI program post an apology for heinous acts. Do it yourself and shut the program down.

Of course. On both accounts.

“Dave, have you thought about drinking a nice cold bottle of Coca Cola?”

Isiah Whitlock Jr, best known for his role as Clay Davis on “The Wire,” has died. He was 71

they have designed these machines to simulate human agents and they are constantly pitching the idea that these machines really *are* agents, but when one of these machines kills a person they say “you can’t hold them to account, they’re just machines, read the instructions”

“Never tried therapy before” says Weng. Lady, you still haven’t. When ChatGPT fucks up your children’s mental health, direct your complaints/lawsuits to Lilian Weng CC Sam Altman. Glorified predictive text is NOT a safe alternative to seeing a qualified mental health professional.

This should win the 2025 award for poignancy

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.

I mean: “why would i pay a college to submit my essay to chatgpt for me”

TA's are often how people fund going to graduate school. So that's...genius.