Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

yes, it does...it's a pretty invasive surgery, and some people do well with it, but there are plenty of documented risks

oooh "the faith sentence," I like that, very nice

how do so many people fundamentally not understand that creating art is intrinsically rewarding and, even though it involves effort and frustration, is a transformative experience that also feels like a brain massage?

Please donate and share for Samaa’s in-laws. Their fundraiser is very small and bluesky has been harming them with deletions 😓

www.gofundme.com/f/save-my-fa...

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

I would love to be wrong

I'm afraid this would require a functional moral compass, and at least a passing interest in moral consistency and integrity, and I have grave doubts about how many are in possession of these

put your dog whistle back in your pants, no one wants to see that

"WOW a person criticized and asked me to reflect on the oppressive, historical roots of some of the language I use, I'd rather live under literal fascism"

people are so disappointing

only time you'll get a frank admission of the failure of dieting for long-term weight loss is in the intro sections of studies on GLP-1s or bariatric surgery...rest of the time it's referenced as a proven treatment (omitting long-term data ofc) or promising treatment

epistemic closure at its finest

hate to be that guy, but can't help but notice how closely this mimics decade upon decade of dieting-for-weight-loss research, which almost always found it to be ineffective in the long-term, riddled with potential harms (often glossed over) and then went on to recommend...dieting harder, for longer

I spoke with a journalist about this back when research was emerging about the internet disinhibition effect, and I made an analogy to road rage and she said there was also research on how being in a car produces a similar disinhibition effect...can't find the exact studies now but it stuck with me

when people are in cars they arent in society

the rate of stolen fries is about to skyrocket

I agree, and that really, really concerns me

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

real mask-off moment for much of education

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

"the purpose of a system is what it does"

staring off into space with your mouth open a bit while rubbing your eye is an essential component of writing

sorry I don't know anything about crabs but that looks almost exactly like a uterine fibroid 🙏