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Soren Lorenson

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"An insecure and proven inferior artist." -u/splugebob Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. 62nd St. Bridge troll, she/her/yinz Making informative zines and art at magaro.net/tles/

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hey, new followers! I have a zine! It's called CHODE and is a guide for normies to understand who all these weirdos in Trumpworld are, where they came from, and what they want. Provided as a download that can be printed on any double-sided printer and assembled easily. magaro.net/tles/portfol...

CHODE: A Zine About Republican Weirdos – The Office of Weird Ideas

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 1d

We're the Paris of Appalachia! It's extremely Appalachian here, just the urban version.

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 1d

I have backyard chickens and they are dumb as a box of rocks. Absolute idiots. And in my city roosters are illegal because they suck so bad.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 1d

I had a similar upbringing. George Soros in 1989: shining beacon of freedom for the Iron Curtain. My dad in 1989: "leftists don't believe in truth or an science, just irrational emotions." I'll give the CATO Institute this: they at least have stayed true to libertarianism.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

She doesn't realize she's just their gay friend (for now)

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

This is what it looks like when you have so much self loathing you blow right past shame

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

Just got an email from my university's IT department inviting us to try out their new walled-garden LLM. Their suggestions for what one might do with it are hilariously just the wettest of wet farts. You can make it talk like Yoda! It can write an email! I bet it can even write an email like Yoda!

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what's up with these educational leadership headhunters but my city's district's super was also found to have falsified and plagiarized a bunch of stuff on his CV (fired a golden parachute). Wild to me because I have been through the ID check stuff for teachers and it's no joke.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

By the time I retire in 15 years I am counting on at least one modular electric van-like-form-factor that I can kit out as a camper van to be on the market and not cost a zillion simoleans.

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

As long as a single stakeholder with enough seniority (or an alum with enough money) is mad, a project will grind to a halt, a needed change will never get implemented, an ethical stand will never be made. So hide behind AI like "the magic robot told me to do this, sorry I am powerless."

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

All of these problems that AI is "solving" are problems of LEADERSHIP. What I see in this article is a bunch of administrators hiding behind AI like "don't blame me, the AI told me to do it" because that's how shit is at US universities.

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on another committee right now evaluating our enterprise software situation. We've discovered it's the wild west out there, did not need AI, it's blatantly observable. People spend like this bc they can and no one stops them. Solving that takes leadership, not AI.

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

Funnily enough, I recently found myself as the head of a unit that manages classroom spaces. "Is there a database of these spaces?" I asked when I took the job. "Ha ha no" So I made one. In Airtable. Two years ago. I offered it to anyone who wanted to use it. No one did. (I use it all the time.)

At Caltech, Kang and his team have taken the available data about the institution’s buildings and grounds, down to individual rooms and fixtures, and integrated it with a geographic information system, the tech behind GPS. Once the new technology is fully connected, employees should be able to ask an in-house chatbot nicknamed Captain Kirk for information about any room on campus — its space, its fixtures, its repair history. In the recent past, employees looking for a space to house a professor’s new lab might have to consult several databases, make in-person surveys of several rooms, and coordinate with several different divisions on campus. “It could have taken three weeks,” Kang says. If the chatbot works as planned, “that would literally take 30 seconds.”

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry, what kind of operation are you running where these numbers are not already in accounting software where you can sort large->small on the Variance% column?

$Several times a year, Low delivers a presentation to the University of Maine system’s Board of Trustees that runs down the system’s finances. Traditionally, he and his staff receive budget sheets from each of the eight campuses and, in two or three days, go through all the line items in order to parse and understand the changes in costs and revenue and their effects. This past spring, he recorded his conversations with staff about the budget and uploaded a transcript to an AI tool to generate the basis of his opening remarks. The campus budget data itself was fed into another tool with instructions to look for variances of 10 percent or more between the budget and actual costs and revenues. “Trustee X, who always is going to ask me about variances, is going to ask me about a 14-percent variance,” Low said. “He’s not going to ask me about a 2-percent variance. So that’s what I need to be prepared for.” The latter process took the tool about nine minutes, a fraction of the time it would take Low and his team, who were free to focus on other things.$

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

All of the examples in this article of uses for AI in higher ed are lame as shit, a thread.

Can Colleges Be Run Using AI?

A third of college administrators say they use the technology for small and big tasks. The results are mixed.

www.chronicle.com

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

This seems less a measure of ideology and more "how much were you paying attention"

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 2d

Who needs AI to shop?

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Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 3d

She's their gay friend.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 3d

I've been through this process (in MD and PA) as well so this is also wild to me.

Though for some reason superintendents caught embellishing their CV/plagiarizing/etc is definitely s thing that happens more than one would hope. The headhunters do seem quite bad at their jobs.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 3d

I would like to go back to the days of the selfish pouch/bag/box. I just want a single serving, not three that I will inevitably whale through minutes after opening.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 3d

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Soren Lorenson @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 4d

Hadesposting: The Ephyra music slaps so incredibly hard, I ain't even mad that Polyphemus keeps squashing me like a bug.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 4d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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