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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 1h

hit my protein target for the day :)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

I think he was actually ACTUALLY asleep lmao

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

you really gotta click for full screen to experience it

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

bringing this back because it makes me laugh

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 7h

I FEEL INSANE

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 7h

Management, unsatisfied with killing us slowly through poverty wages, would prefer if we just hurry it up and die of measles instead

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry what the fuck is this???? www.calfac.org/court-of-app...

Court of Appeal will Consider Arguments on CSU Effort to Eliminate Student Vaccination Requirements - California Faculty Association

A California Court of Appeal will hear oral arguments on October 15 about CSU management’s effort to eliminate student vaccination

www.calfac.org

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 10h

ooh a train cry I gotta add that to my bucket list of cry boxes lol

but yeah definitely in the air

Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 10h

(I'm fine! just chatting about heavy life stuff with a friend while tired got the waterworks going, I'm baby)

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 10h

peripheral benefit of masking on public transit is no one can see how stupid you look silently gibbering or whatever

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 10h

expanding locations called the cry box to include the bus lol

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14h

Appendix 1: on gun analogies

Nobody ever asked me to teach gun safety in history class. The reasons are so obvious they don't need stating and have nothing to do with whether gun safety matters.

But I am being asked (not politely) to spend history class helping people to learn how to use Al.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

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.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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a strange voyage @strangevoyage.bsky.social · 14h

Sudden thunder, and the bitter sea denies us its shrimp. Glassy cliffs.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

haven't they suffered enough

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

must be legal in the uk tho or does buckingham palace get special rules lol

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

pretty sure it's legal here in california 😬

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 17h

13 going on 130

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