The transitition from peds to 18+ care remains one of the worst part of adulthood to me. I absolutely believe your theory about this!

me: maybe I should learn more about my heritage

news: paleolithic German death pit: captives and cannibals!

me: or you know I could do other things instead

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

I went to diabetes camp as a kid and one year we staged at the rich kids' camp before a canoe trip and they had a strong no-soap culture that remains wild to me to this day

(The next year the state mandated that they had to stop telling children not to bathe)

skinny green Gritty?

I wish there was a meaningful way to report an add for off-putting gAI art. If you want to use Anne Hathaway fan-art to sell your scammy investment whatever, commission it.

(Also ngl it gives "too broke to pay an artist" which seems like an odd choice for investment folks to lean into 🤷)

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

so has anyone created a "things that RFK thinks cause autism" bingo card yet?

Durian

That's how I read it too. Sipping lets you really experience the beauty, I don't think this is a flavor that does well when gulped.

And that maybe they'll get to the point where they know enough about a topic to be able to tell accurate from weird at a glance but since they're still learning, they're not there yet

(I tried to lean really hard against the shaming and Thou Shall Not approach, which is I think all they're getting)

if you turn in an AI-generated paper, people like their professors who have expertise often immediately get an uncanny valley vibe from it. And that it works like autocomplete to generate what is probably right but may also be really weird-wrong.

I don't know if it's a solution but maybe a part of one -- when I was providing library instruction for some first year students yesterday I asked them if they knew why (some of) their professors had rules against AI and most of them said no. No one had ever explained to them things like +

the stolen children of Argentina's Dirty War?

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

i hate them because the horrible sound makes me flinch but yeah they do work (and the make a less horrible sound than the electric pencil sharpener which people seem to have no problem with)

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

The funny thing about the town I currently live in is that tourists reliably pronounce the name closer to how it is pronounced in Dakota than locals do.

If anyone needs to hear it from a cis guy:

The worst thing isn't the Democratic Party continuing to lose Federal control.

The worst thing is the Democratic party also turning against human rights in the states and municipalities they do control.

source: migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

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"We refuse the processes that turn people into objects. We refuse to place the value these materials offer our institutions and disciplines above the people whose bodies were made into valuable epistemic resources."

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

oh, yeah, absolutely, but even aside from that - I've also worked with librarians who are proud of being passionate and I'm just like... that's like proud of being jealous or of being ignorant. You can be proud of it, I'm not the boss of you, I just find it weird.