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Jared Gardner

@guttergeek.bsky.social

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Prof of lit & media. University Senate Secretary. Buckeye. Higher ed defender, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants & counting pills. 🥄😵‍💫⚡️ 🕎 Opinions mine http://campus-novel.ghost.io

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 8d

At campus-novel, I begin a series in which I try and bring AI down to earth, if only for my own sanity.
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Towards a Human-Powered AI

Part 1. The Cardsharp in the Room The very nature of thinking is "but." Things are complicated. It’s “and,” “but,” “either” — it’s all those things. – Susan Sontag, 1979 Heading into this new acad...

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 5h

In 2016 I bought a gun, put it in a safe, and promptly lost the key.

Anyone know how to turn a safe into a weapon?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 1d

Getting to be more of a stretch every month

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 1d

Please make as many ai videos as possible of Sam Altman sex pesting Teletubbies until they go bankrupt

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Who is going to pay for all this slop?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 1d

Post yesterday’s pic made me realize I needed a haircut 🙂

Same guy but now with haircut — still old as hell

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 2d

Holy fuck I’m old 😂

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 2d

Quote post an unfiltered pic and say your age: 59

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 2d

Please do! I’m doing it all wrong

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 3d

Fed up with Bluesky? Join me at FidoNet

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone speaks of LLMs as possessing "intelligence" I giggle. And also think they are less intelligent than I did before.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 4d

The word fingerbanging keeps cracking me up

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 4d

There was!

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t been paying attention so I’m hoping someone can catch me up: why we pretending we’re going to mastodon now?

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 4d

I’m going to Friendster

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 4d

Also I think there may be an exception for fingerbanging

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 7d

Do you really need to come into someone’s feed to scold and lecture them? It is so unpleasant and performative . I’m sure you have friends and coworkers to scold and shame. Focus on them

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 8d

Seriously — can’t drink or do drugs any more so I am down to the cheese grater and two eyeballs

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 8d

I’m just sad I still have to go to work

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Campus Novel @campus-novel.bsky.social · 8d

Starting a series of ambivalent posts designed to help me and other Humanities and related academic types develop a healthy working relationship with AI

Towards a Human-Powered AI

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 8d

At campus-novel, I begin a series in which I try and bring AI down to earth, if only for my own sanity.
campus-novel.ghost.io/towards-a-hu...

Towards a Human-Powered AI

campus-novel.ghost.io

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 9d

Not one of these companies has to settle. As private companies, Internet companies can deplatform whomever they want. They are settling soley to pay tribute and signal their obeisance.

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit | CNN Business

YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 9d

I was filled with despair before it was cool

Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10d

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10d

Academic freedom comes with the responsibility to convey field consensus on a range of topics. In the case of the distinction between sex and gender, it’s clear across many fields: social sciences, biological sciences, humanities, and more. No threats can make us stop teaching this or any knowledge

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10d

Thank god for books, the only escape from this horrid timeline I’ve got left now that alcohol, drugs, and mania are off the table

Shelves with some of my sci fi/fantasy books