"In a year we will all be living in Mars." - Guy who has trouble making cars where the doors open "AI will be running the world in the next 12 months." - Guy whose chatbot never gives the right answer Why does anyone listen to these guys?

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

be careful, if you miss the on ramp to the danger zone, there isn’t another one for like 45 minutes

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Human agricultural history is a delicate balance of picky eaters, stubbornly refusing new foods, and noophiles who can't help but try out new foods.

Y'all, make your instant hot chocolate with black tea. It was an experiment that has forever changed me.

Excited to have been sent my 1st 'AI doesn't scam people, people scam people' reply & just like the other death automation machine I'm referencing, I feel that a machine that makes thieving on a large scale much easier is a bad thing to give thieves easy access to!

Something lovely for the weekend! Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙 Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #Archaeology

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Lovely!

Germans love the Christmas movie The Hard

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Nobody ever talks about The Long Kiss Goodnight as a Christmas movie and in my opinion, this is bad and wrong.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

As you’re gathering with your families today, do me a favor. Ask them what their favorite shark is and why, and report back here!

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Or finding out it was plagiarism, which is pretty dang close to finding out it was AI ffs there is a whole-ass four hour video on this that grapples in significant part with how people feel negatively about something they liked when they discover it’s plagiarized youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?...

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator. Shame on you for this.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration IG roodabeguh

It is the annual Making Of The Soup. If you want to feed some folks sleeping rough, I got me two hundred takeout quart containers. And a metric fuckton of tomatoes. And a Vitamix. Chip in: Venmo linda-tirado-3 PayPal [email protected] Chime $linda-tirado-3 Happy Christmas to every one

A small reminder that reposting, liking, and commenting are financially free gifts you can give to anyone at any time for any reason. 💛

Stranger things have happened. You might like this story (in the caption) I saw on Instagram the other day about a woman who finds her grandmother’s dishes in a thrift store several years later after she had passed. The comments are full of similar stories. www.instagram.com/reel/DSgEoJJ...

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

Over the weekend my best friend (who is a huge transit nerd) learned about the word "Bustituted", which is when a trolley line is replaced with a bus. I can't stop thinking about it. Good word, transit nerds.

New Sauceome comic today, about a bunch of things I did this year: buttondown.com/sarahbecan/a...

Verdict: Actually, yeah, a 1:1 mix of root beer to egg nog works really well

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

This is the strangest web series. I have caught a few when my willpower fails to prevent scrolling shorts (I try but it happens). It's satirizing experiences that I've only ever seen in fiction, so I don't quite know how to take them. At least it's interesting. www.youtube.com/shorts/ieIl7...

Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.

Hm, I did just bookmark this. It looks good and i could see it being a panacea for all of life's problems, but I'd need a few things to make it. www.youtube.com/shorts/9722B...

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

me seeing some highly rendered "A.i." illustration: That shit sucks ass. me seeing some janky fish you literally drew with a crayon on the back of an envelope: I LOVE IT!!!

Magpie is inspecting our latest delivery from @savvyliterate.com @secondlina.com and @mishacak3s.bsky.social and she approves! (Also we have more crows and sapphic eldridge horrors in stock now.)

They put microplastics in all of nature that bore us. In our blood. Our brains. Our wombs. Out ballsacks. "But how can we put microplastics in the soul?" they asked, and so ChatGPT was born.

English singer-songwriter and slide guitarist Chris Rea has died at 74. While more celebrated in his homeland and even having a popular Christmas song, Rea may be best known in North America for his 1978 hit “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)”. #RIPChrisRea m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUN...

This one is a little hard to describe without illustrating. My first manuscript research was in the 18th-century records of the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, where I encountered three conventions I’d never seen before, all in the same entry:

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Look at how every face you can see is smiling!! This is so cute.

Been writing for 45 years and I've about had it with people who argue using AI "just for a first draft" is fine A first draft is... When you use creativity When you use critical thinking When you use logic A first draft is when you learn and grow A first draft is the worst possible time for AI