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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 4h

my mother is a fish

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.

Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X?
These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 2d

just like a bunch of sliced cheese and some potato chips, my god, how are you still conscious

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 2d

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 2d

sadly removing this now no-longer-trendy 2024 slide from my PPT on Baudrillard and instead adding a discussion about Labubus.

moo deng meme of a handler's arms reaching down to gently pick up wet baby hippo moo deng, but moo deng has a look of incredulity and affront on her lil hippo face. the captions label the handler as "Dr. Schneider trying to explain Baudrillard" and the confused hippo as "theory students"

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2d

An early career philosopher turning down a tenure track job at a large R1—when there is not another job waiting. That’s how bad things have gotten at A&M.

Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 2d

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 3d

"pope condemns clickbait" "inflatable frog gets tear-gassed" "alligator enters tiki bar" you cant convicne me the world is real

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 3d

Idk about all y'all but I'm so confused by all this talk lately about "antifa" because antifa is a genre of record store / punk club??? I went to a couple in Berlin back in the day. I got some cool buttons.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

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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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 3d

Haha I forgot that!

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 4d

I met friends for life - friends who I have visited and stayed at their houses!

Also once @thisaintbc.bsky.social mailed me a half gallon of homemade apple cider in a glass mason jar just wrapped in lots of newspaper in a flat rate box and it made it safely somehow and was delicious.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d

Instead of being forced to talk about Big Tech's fake inventions we should celebrate the truly life changing feats of genius that we don't think about. The incredible "head phones." The humble toilet

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d

I’m glad but Freida!!! We’re a little on edge, as a nation!!!!

Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly’s okay ❤️

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10d

If all these data centers being built everywhere where no one who lives there wants them are so great and wonderful how come they're all being built as fucking secrets

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 6d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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