Blackius Maximus
@blackiusmaximus.bsky.social
I balm atomically…
This is exactly why complaints about players getting paid or transferring because of playing time were always laughable.
Lane Kiffin's LSU contract will pay him the equivalent of my Louisiana public university annual salary every two days
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is exactly why complaints about players getting paid or transferring because of playing time were always laughable.
Ed programs are getting a lot of pressure and incentives to push ai into the curriculum. Some universities are caving fully, but some are being more strategic and critical (since ai is an important topic in education).
All education silver bullets fail. This one will fail bigger.
All education silver bullets fail. This one will fail bigger.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Ed programs are getting a lot of pressure and incentives to push ai into the curriculum. Some universities are caving fully, but some are being more strategic and critical (since ai is an important topic in education).
All education silver bullets fail. This one will fail bigger.
All education silver bullets fail. This one will fail bigger.
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
I get why academics & other professionals do this. We are taught to use relevant images to engage and communicate. It takes time.
But AI images also distract. Making viewers’ brains pause to consider overly smooth edges, weird anomalies, or uncanny-valley perfection instead of following ideas/data.
But AI images also distract. Making viewers’ brains pause to consider overly smooth edges, weird anomalies, or uncanny-valley perfection instead of following ideas/data.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I get why academics & other professionals do this. We are taught to use relevant images to engage and communicate. It takes time.
But AI images also distract. Making viewers’ brains pause to consider overly smooth edges, weird anomalies, or uncanny-valley perfection instead of following ideas/data.
But AI images also distract. Making viewers’ brains pause to consider overly smooth edges, weird anomalies, or uncanny-valley perfection instead of following ideas/data.
Die Hard is a holiday movie and Diamonds and Pearls is a holiday song and Tim Allen is the worst Santa possible.
Let inconsequential-holiday-argument-season commence!
Let inconsequential-holiday-argument-season commence!
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Die Hard is a holiday movie and Diamonds and Pearls is a holiday song and Tim Allen is the worst Santa possible.
Let inconsequential-holiday-argument-season commence!
Let inconsequential-holiday-argument-season commence!
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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Ai has stolen everything and still losing money. Them folks not even good at thievery.
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ai has stolen everything and still losing money. Them folks not even good at thievery.
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The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters.
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters.
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
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Indigenous brothers and sisters offered aid to colonizers who then back stabbed them and caused genocide and took lands. While some may feast, let us also acknowledge the full view of Thanksgiving. #Thanksgiving #NationalDayofMourning #Ambivalence 🦃 #BlackSky
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Indigenous brothers and sisters offered aid to colonizers who then back stabbed them and caused genocide and took lands. While some may feast, let us also acknowledge the full view of Thanksgiving. #Thanksgiving #NationalDayofMourning #Ambivalence 🦃 #BlackSky
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, you must cancel your partnership with OpenAI now. This company cannot be allowed anywhere near children.
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One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Win my soul by educating me about things I’d never really considered.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Win my soul by educating me about things I’d never really considered.
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Path dependency? The dryer parts of the country keep trying to lure industries that rely heavily on water because the US government once tried to turn plains and deserts into farmland. Those places are also rightwing for related reasons
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Path dependency? The dryer parts of the country keep trying to lure industries that rely heavily on water because the US government once tried to turn plains and deserts into farmland. Those places are also rightwing for related reasons
QTNA: Is Elon White still outside?
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
QTNA: Is Elon White still outside?
They are like black holes for humor and empathy. Just two phenomena so vacuous that they even suck up the time of anyone who drifts by…
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
They are like black holes for humor and empathy. Just two phenomena so vacuous that they even suck up the time of anyone who drifts by…
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Stuff like this makes me feel better because I think it signals that the end is in sight. Remember when all the new TVs were '3D' around 10 years ago?
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Stuff like this makes me feel better because I think it signals that the end is in sight. Remember when all the new TVs were '3D' around 10 years ago?
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
Tom Brady being the announcer for an Eagles meltdown game against Dallas is what Dante’s Inferno was all about.
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tom Brady being the announcer for an Eagles meltdown game against Dallas is what Dante’s Inferno was all about.
Dear, Eagles…
a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right
Alt: a close up of a man's face as he screams the word “more”
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Dear, Eagles…
If you think this is wrong, look a the arts cuts in lower income schools over the last 20yrs vs wealthy areas and privates.
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you think this is wrong, look a the arts cuts in lower income schools over the last 20yrs vs wealthy areas and privates.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeennnnnn I….had yooooooouuuu….i treated you baaaaaaaaayeaaaaad, and wrong my dear….
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeennnnnn I….had yooooooouuuu….i treated you baaaaaaaaayeaaaaad, and wrong my dear….
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable