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Barbie Devyndarbė

@katchin05.blacksky.app

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brown glass bottle full of shavings from the sun🌅 Black magic in a cheetah print coat. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · Mar 7

I really just wanna talk about the Sims and where to get lunch on my next trip. I’m tired.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 17h

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 12h

I need the reaper to clock in and get to work

soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 20h

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

Appendix 2: on tools

A tool is *for* something. If the things generative AI tools are *for* are not conducive to learning a given subject, generative AI is not a tool for learning that subject. Establishing that and then talking about how to integrate it into courses on that subject is incoherent.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 18h

Lmao.
Years ago Phil snuck me some raki back in his luggage and I get it now.

Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 18h

Ty friend!

Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 18h

And it’s grand!

Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 18h

💕 I’m having such A good time

Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 18h

😭😭😭😭😭

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𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖊 @upthetwerx.bsky.social · 19h

Credit where credit is due these are tactics that started in LA.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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aliii✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 1d

i wrote a research paper on “childbirth - miracle of life or forced servitude?” plus a powerpoint presentation the following morning.
if you don’t know how to lock the fuck in on no sleep, no sources even searched, at minimum 2 red bulls as food. like yall don’t know how to be persuasive anymore???

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 1d

In Greece with no firm plans, in charge of nothing, just pointing stuff and then it’s on a plate or in my bag. Drinking feee ouzo and trying to remind this man he doesn’t have to get everything someone offers “for your beautiful wife”.

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Vlad⚓ @vjlonir.bsky.social · 1d

"You gonna have to get used to AI"

No the fuck I don't.

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 3d

ok. why did you do this ? @baylorginuwine1.bsky.social

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 6d

I forgot you’re supposed to delete this app or social media in general? before 🛫 so let me do that.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Mar 5

🌙 gnbsky

A white on black typewritten note that reads "nobody is coming to save us." across the top. The words "we keep us safe" are stacked vertically with a glow effect, with the word "safe" also being used as part of "Stay safe, sleep well, be kind." written across the lower part of the page.

With a doodle of a sleeping cat

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Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 6d

If Pritzker wants to be taken Seriously he needs to hold his troopers accountable abd make them
Leave. Right now they’re acting as aides to ICE

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 6d

The sushi burrito thing

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

HAPPENING NOW: Oregon asks Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) to block the Trump admin's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. 🧵

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