This week alone:$$$$$$$

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
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I like a “grace period” of around 24 hours. I find it doesn’t affect my ability to give timely feedback, it cuts down on asks for extensions, and gives students some control. I tell them the purpose is to allow for “life happens” kind of stuff.

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

“
A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.

[…] 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up.
”

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#GenAILies

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

Our cat 2 seconds after that toast was buttered.

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Haha! From this article I learned you just need combine like 13 supplements in ever-changing and untested ways. Some people are definitely getting rich! (Now whether what they are selling is anything but snake oil ….)

I just read this piece about tech bros obsessed with living forever. I got to the point that I was just listing out loud for my husband the multiple questionable or straight out bs ideas in every paragraph www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My colleague teaches a detective fiction clsss. I should paaa it on

Let’s do it!!!!!

Wow! Thank you. I didn’t expect you to fill me in, but I definitely look forward to reading up on this!

I only know the first two steps here!

egg

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Oh man I just realized why I kept seeing the same AHA link shared every time I glanced at my feed today and I will say that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would be happy to read a pitch responding to that.

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

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