personally i thought Andrea LaFlamme seemed cool. like idk everything & i'm not in Maine but she seems like she'd be a solid pick

watched a little bit of The Pitt. not very far in but i can tell you one thing, i would die for Mel

I do not wish to debate you on the truth of the point re Plantner, but hear me now, educational attainment is not a proxy for class. Yes whole careers have been made arguing it is. BUT PLEASE HEAR ME NOW. EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS NOT A PROXY FOR WORKING CLASS. JUST STOP.

imagine a world where every political candidate who gets credibly accused of sexual assault has to resign

Several students wrote of the moral confusion implicit in a college that promotes AI and says don't cheat but makes it really, really easy to cheat. One said they don't pay attention to AI policies because they don't think the college really wants to know what's going on. 9/

shaking my head while I squeeze the mustard on so people know I don’t approve of U.S. foreign policy

Um, I don't think I'll be going to this particular Dollar General then.

the fucked up thing is i would still watch a 3rd season of The Recruit if they made it

i learned the name micah lasher via an ad that started with "why does mike bloomberg support micah lasher?" & i just assumed it was an attack ad

This is important because if we approach the problem as one of misinformation rather than racism, we’re going to spend a lot of time debunking things they’re not actually concerned about, rather than addressing the racism and protecting the targets of it.

But yeah, I don’t think they genuinely believe some secret group is somehow throwing the election in Los Angeles; they believe the “right” voters preferred him, so he should win.

these are getting weird

wait is the claim about platner calling his totenkopf a totenkopf news, i thought that came out before he even got it covered up

oh yeah I forgot we live in space

philip pullman, 1995:

it should be illegal to spend money on computer. they should have physical stores to mediate all your in-app purchases. you should have to make eye contact with a person behind the counter as you pay for that thing. you know which thing

a thing i like about Boots Riley is he clearly likes twists where the characters find out about secret monsters, but he avoids falling into the trap of ever doing "a small group of secret momsters control capitalism" like the monsters are a thing humans have become or been made into

"somehow"

i think Boots Riley makes movies with the assumption that his politics are at odds on some base level with the form of filmmaking, though I Love Boosters may be his attempt to break out of that constraint

i'm sorry they fucking what

bluesky is the place to go for HBO

people keep telling me my new dome city is "a bubble" but actually no it is a glass dome

don't let it turn into procrastination. discovering things as you write and incorporating them on the fly is fine, too bsky.app/profile/quel...

telling the kids these days that a "mid-life crisis" has nothing to do with age it's just about realizing your life is only okay

never going to recover from someone telling me i look like jonah hill. worst day of my life. no offense to jonah hill. some offense to jonah hill. probably can't say "getting told i look like this guy is the worst thing anyone's ever said about me" & cover that one with a no offense

you know i thought homelander killing an obvious musk stand-in was kinda funny but a bad choice from a satire perspective. apparently it was the best choice

there's absolutely nothing even 20% of the queer community agrees on

Count Dracula? As far as I know there’s only one

reading a book set in Massachusetts and there's a reference to "going to the DMV." immersion broken immediately. this is an inexcusable sin

If the options are humanity persists OR women have rights, I’m picking women having rights every day. But those also aren’t the options, people just hate women!

tbh i think it is a problem for the midterms. my bleak prediction is gop holds both houses. they're redrawing every map they can & elected dems aren't really reacting

if i have to know this exists so do you

i think "many such cases" is going to be a big anachronism in future writing about this era. specifically i mean it'll show up in period pieces that take place slightly before it became a common thing to say

Being literate in AI and being a customer of consumer gen AI are two entirely different things and there are a lot of people urging everyone to become customers and calling it becoming literate.

i will continue to read that logo as "infonionwars"

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lol sorry, gang. I'm just browsing Kickstarter tonight and I see so many projects with AI art and obvious ChatGPT copy. The whole point of a Kickstarter pitch is to assure your audience of your competence. Nothing about using genAI does that. And that's why your shit isn't funding and never will.

one of my biggest pet peeves in conversations about detecting AI is when people say anything to the effect that the telltale sign of AI writing is it's "too good" (for x student to have written). no! AI writing isn't good! using that language just makes students think AI writes better than them!

tell me you don’t understand structure without saying tell me you don’t understand structure

two things aswell -- 1) a person w/out kids + renting an apartment + shitty employer health ins could get 50% raise and still not afford house, kids, or better health ins. 2) no matter how much of a raise that person has gotten, the CEO & board of the company they work for has gotten SO much richer

aaaaaaand this is the second time we get a "christina koch's dog sees her after coming back from space" video youtu.be/Z3eEjHWT90M

Good evening to just be curled up with a novel. Can I recommend putting your phone in the next room and getting a physical book out? (I'm currently reading Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

We didn't deserve this day.

if the whole internet goes down in the next 10-15 years i'm gonna have to hand it to david mitchell, but i will have nowhere to do so

Dreamed I was supposed to be working on a novel at a writer’s colony, where you had the option to astrally project home as often as you liked. Which I did so much that I hardly got any work done. Arriving home at end, I realized I wasn’t sure whether I’d truly come or was only projecting myself.

My highest recommendation for all 900 pages of King Sorrow

A24's THE DRAMA is a movie that asks what would have to happen for you to be upset that you're marrying Zendaya