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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 1d

Like, just buy a box of bags, no one is stopping you from buying your own box of plastic bags if that's what you want to bring

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 1d

Like, they are fighting to be able to buy shittier reusable bags, which are cheap enough they don't mind throwing them out?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 1d

This is so stupid.
Free plastic bags had gotten so shitty, anyways, and you'll get used to bringing them and there are usually very cheap ones available right at the checkout if you forget

And, this system works, so why would stores give them out for free again, even if it was legal?

Republican seeking to become NJ governor pledges return of plastic bags • New Jersey Monitor

On the campaign trail, Republican Jack Ciattarelli pledges to voters that he'll rescind the state's ban on single-use plastic bags.

newjerseymonitor.com

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 1d

"Automated busywork"
does not communicate to me what I think confluence thought it would

Part of a confluence setup page listing the feature automated busywork described as automated reminders

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 2d

Someone has linked me this as a possible explanation:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration

Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has e...

www.propublica.org

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 3d

There are 9 professional information/IT jobs listed and *4* of them ask interested applicants to physically mail their resume to an address, in 2025!

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 3d

Do you think an ad in the paper is a more honest signal that there's actually a job available, vs a LinkedIn job ad or whatever?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know you could still find jobs like this in the classified section of a paper

Help wanted ads for full-time BI Architect, Dev Ops Engineer and network security engineer roles

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 4d

Might have chosen my sides differently if I'd known these ribs came with rice

Mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, and rice is a lot of hot wet carbs for one meal

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 5d

hot take: "philosophical stuff and therapy" are more serious than your work deliverables

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 5

You're so close

r/ChatGPTPro
u/vurto • 28d
If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
Discussion
It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 5d

brb, writing a letter to my own ischool, begging them not to become artificial

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 5d

WE COULD REALLY USE SOME SORT OF SCIENCE OF INFORMATION RN!

but instead, let's just sell degrees in operating whatever computer science invents, I guess

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 5d

*screams at the sky*

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 7d

"learn about effective email marketing strategies"
teases the email I'm deleting from my auto-filtered "other" inbox without opening it

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 7d

Jokes on them, if a computer identifies an action item and puts it on a to do list, that makes it less likely my executive function will be able to 'catch' so I start doing it

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 7d

"I'm surprised to see detergent in the new sense mouth" is a beautiful sentence

And successful, I understand their meaning, the new type of flavor (cherry blossom) is surprising/exciting for a mouth wash

A bottle of cherry blossom mouthwash with English copy that has obviously been translated from Japanese:
I'm surprised to see detergent in the new sense mouth. I'm washing in the mouth and halitosis prevention. It's also most.suitable for a smoker and oral hygiene.

Reposted by Kat King

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

👇🎯🧵

I'm tired of so many in higher ed feeling like we can only defend higher ed by first granting the premise of every right wing attack on higher ed.

The trust trends don't correlate with tuition/deb trends but do with the GOP's collapse into far right authoritarianism & ongoing media Discourse.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

I've seen a few cases of "wouldn't have bothered otherwise" that seem to more accurately be "organizational excitement about trying AI meant we could use resources to do it with AI that otherwise wouldn't have been available"

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

I got a breakfast sandwich, they offered a bagel, I assumed a popular place on the east coast would not survive selling shitty bagels
I was at the Wawa bc it was next to where I needed to be for a meeting and I was trying to save time walking elsewhere. It was a mistake.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Everything I've gotten has been like, yeah, this food would suffice if you need to not pass out from hunger in a bus station or something, but people go here on purpose.. driving past other places??

Maybe the coffee is good...?

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

like, why am I eating a bagel that's just bread... while I'm on the East Coast?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

I think I've lived in NJ long enough to say this now:

WaWa sucks.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

But also, the offense of harming those who have given you hospitality is older than that, and it is right to refuse to serve agents who regularly violate that compact by terrorizing the immigrant labor that runs commercial kitchens

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 8d

Well, the right to deny quarter to armed agents of the state is one of our founding grievances and so an excellent 250th year celebratory action

Quote from Noem: in face they fine even let our ICE officers and border patrol officers use restrooms and

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 9d

Young PerioDT sounds like a rapper,
but according to this web ad it's a biofilm desiccant available to dental professionals in a 10 pack