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This goes well beyond humanities and classrooms. Art is not just an array of pixels on a screen. Physics is not just a sequence of LaTeX commands. Consciousness is not just an emission of tokens. The whole field is has mistaken byproducts for products.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 4:36 PM
This goes well beyond humanities and classrooms. Art is not just an array of pixels on a screen. Physics is not just a sequence of LaTeX commands. Consciousness is not just an emission of tokens. The whole field is has mistaken byproducts for products.
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People travelled in the medieval period. The idea that medieval people were bound to the land, living their lives in one place, in one village, is a fiction of modernity.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.
We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.
Court ordered therapy almost never works and usually makes the problem worse.
Can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them stop harming their kid/spouse, the kid/spouse won’t rebuild the lost affection, and mostly abusers just learn to be more efficient and cruel abusers.
Can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them stop harming their kid/spouse, the kid/spouse won’t rebuild the lost affection, and mostly abusers just learn to be more efficient and cruel abusers.
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
People travelled in the medieval period. The idea that medieval people were bound to the land, living their lives in one place, in one village, is a fiction of modernity.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
Races and faiths mingled, migrants migrated, merchants, scholars, and pilgrims haunted the lanes and high ways of the world.
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Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon "approximately 100" times since the truce went into effect last Wednesday.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/m...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/m...
After days of Israeli strikes, Hezbollah hits back, each accusing the other of ceasefire violations | CNN
Israel has carried out daily strikes in Lebanon since Thursday, the day after a ceasefire went into effect. On Monday, Hezbollah fired two projectiles, which landed in an open area, according to the I...
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December 2, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon "approximately 100" times since the truce went into effect last Wednesday.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/m...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/m...
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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
helping a friend of a friend move and I’ve never met anyone who owns this many glass bottles in my life
October 1, 2023 at 2:55 AM
helping a friend of a friend move and I’ve never met anyone who owns this many glass bottles in my life
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"ai is making it so everyone can make art"
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity
September 22, 2023 at 2:10 AM
"ai is making it so everyone can make art"
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity
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A lot of people who've never experienced truly dangerous heat before are encountering it for the first time, and we desperately need more public education to help people adapt. (This is a particularly big issue for older people).
What I learned while living in Las Vegas, NV and being from East Coast and therefore not being in the habit of carrying water around is that its very hard to tell when heat is negatively affecting your well being
September 21, 2023 at 9:58 PM
A lot of people who've never experienced truly dangerous heat before are encountering it for the first time, and we desperately need more public education to help people adapt. (This is a particularly big issue for older people).
one time my friend sent me a video of this girl going down a hyperfixation rabbit hole learning how to lino print and said “feels like something you would do” and I was like you’re never gonna believe this… and sent her a pic of all the lino prints I had spread out on the floor
September 17, 2023 at 6:32 AM
one time my friend sent me a video of this girl going down a hyperfixation rabbit hole learning how to lino print and said “feels like something you would do” and I was like you’re never gonna believe this… and sent her a pic of all the lino prints I had spread out on the floor
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the whole world would be better if every new advance in technology was evaluated on the following three metrics:
1. How could this be manipulated to endanger someone fleeing an abusive relationship?
2. Will this help or harm trans people?
3. Will this help or harm sex workers?
1. How could this be manipulated to endanger someone fleeing an abusive relationship?
2. Will this help or harm trans people?
3. Will this help or harm sex workers?
If you think that requiring people to link their real names/identities to their online posts is a good idea that will make people more civil, I'm begging you to please read the 15+ years of work showing that it doesn't work and it endangers vulnerable people.
September 4, 2023 at 12:52 AM
the whole world would be better if every new advance in technology was evaluated on the following three metrics:
1. How could this be manipulated to endanger someone fleeing an abusive relationship?
2. Will this help or harm trans people?
3. Will this help or harm sex workers?
1. How could this be manipulated to endanger someone fleeing an abusive relationship?
2. Will this help or harm trans people?
3. Will this help or harm sex workers?
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Wolfe Herd is the CEO of Bumble, and she’s right in one regard: if you are using AI to find your friends, I know I don’t want to be friends with you. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 1, 2023 at 12:04 AM
Wolfe Herd is the CEO of Bumble, and she’s right in one regard: if you are using AI to find your friends, I know I don’t want to be friends with you. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Repeat after me: there’s no such thing as flushable wipes it’s a marketing lie that will ruin your plumbing
September 1, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Repeat after me: there’s no such thing as flushable wipes it’s a marketing lie that will ruin your plumbing
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Aaaaaaaand. Hours after court blocks Texas age verification law, another court blocks an even broader age verification law in Arkansas. Quite a day for ye olde 1st Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 31, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Aaaaaaaand. Hours after court blocks Texas age verification law, another court blocks an even broader age verification law in Arkansas. Quite a day for ye olde 1st Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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apparently in Alabama there’s a law that says if you plan to do something in another state that would be illegal to do in Alabama, that is itself a crime. essentially allowing prosecution for a phantom conspiracy, where no one ever planned an actual crime.
NEW: Alabama can prosecute those who help women travel for abortion, AG says in court filing.
"The right to travel ... does not grant Plaintiffs the right to carry out a criminal conspiracy simply because they propose to do so by purchasing bus passes or driving cars." tinyurl.com/2trn9ywz
"The right to travel ... does not grant Plaintiffs the right to carry out a criminal conspiracy simply because they propose to do so by purchasing bus passes or driving cars." tinyurl.com/2trn9ywz
August 31, 2023 at 5:40 AM
apparently in Alabama there’s a law that says if you plan to do something in another state that would be illegal to do in Alabama, that is itself a crime. essentially allowing prosecution for a phantom conspiracy, where no one ever planned an actual crime.
two Jeremy Renner fan accounts followed me on twitter and two is not a large number but for Jeremy Renner fan accounts it feels like a lot. a majority even.
August 31, 2023 at 7:05 AM
two Jeremy Renner fan accounts followed me on twitter and two is not a large number but for Jeremy Renner fan accounts it feels like a lot. a majority even.
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Humans: invent barbed wire
Shrikes: oh, it's over for all you motherfuckers
Shrikes: oh, it's over for all you motherfuckers
August 30, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Humans: invent barbed wire
Shrikes: oh, it's over for all you motherfuckers
Shrikes: oh, it's over for all you motherfuckers
EVERY DAY I HAVE TO EAT
August 30, 2023 at 8:30 AM
EVERY DAY I HAVE TO EAT
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It's not so much that downtowns are fucked.
It's more that real estate developers went on a cocaine-fueled binge of building fucktonnes of office space that everyone knew at the time was never going to be needed. They should take responsibility for their foolish decisions.
It's more that real estate developers went on a cocaine-fueled binge of building fucktonnes of office space that everyone knew at the time was never going to be needed. They should take responsibility for their foolish decisions.
August 30, 2023 at 12:22 AM
It's not so much that downtowns are fucked.
It's more that real estate developers went on a cocaine-fueled binge of building fucktonnes of office space that everyone knew at the time was never going to be needed. They should take responsibility for their foolish decisions.
It's more that real estate developers went on a cocaine-fueled binge of building fucktonnes of office space that everyone knew at the time was never going to be needed. They should take responsibility for their foolish decisions.
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you guys were serious about the skeet thing?
August 28, 2023 at 9:04 AM
you guys were serious about the skeet thing?
dionysus, god of open floor plans
August 28, 2023 at 9:03 AM
dionysus, god of open floor plans