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Lay @awfukellay.bsky.social · Aug 8

Been playing too much Mass Effect lately.
#PixelArt #pixelorama #masseffect

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 41m

So much fun!

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My learning style is…

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @handle.invalid · 3h

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2h

And here's me making a somewhat angry plea to teachers who are going down this (self)destructive path. engagededucation.substack.com/p/if-you-use...

If You Use AI to Grade Student Writing, Stop or Quit Your Job

Some things you can't be polite about.

engagededucation.substack.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2h

Sharing this from @marcwatkins.bsky.social again about the dead end and despair that awaits if AI grading is embraced. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/the-danger...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

marcwatkins.substack.com

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 1h

Once again, we beg you, take a community college literature class. They are welcoming! they are interesting! you will clearly learn something!

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 3h

Alexandra Jones, the column’s author, makes a really important point at the end: the fact that people are *hiding* their LLM use really makes it clear that they know this is ultimately a bad move.

Not to mention the number of “they/I were basically dating the AI” from folks on both sides of it.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 3h

“Free knitting classes for furloughed feds have been a regular offer at the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2013, when the government shut down for 16 days. Fibre Space staff and volunteers held the classes again during the 34-day shutdown of 2018.” 🎁🔗

Furloughed and frustrated, feds channel stress into new socks

Since 2013, the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria has offered free knitting classes for furloughed federal workers during long government shutdowns.

wapo.st

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 3h

I reeeallllllyyy want to see the data breakdown by gender and age for ChatGPT use in dating.

My anecdotal experience as a millennial is that in general, men seem much more willing to talk about / brag about using ChatGPT than women. But again, this is anecdotal!

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4h

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 6h

We are delighted to announce that Orcadian author Barbara Stevenson will return to Academia Lunare with a new work on Scottish Gothic Fiction: The Kirk, the Deil and the Grue Atween. Luna Press has acquired EWR and we are looking forward to welcome it in the new year! @babette1-62.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Announcing Stevenson's Exploration of Scottish Gothic Fiction

We are delighted to announce that Orcadian author Barbara Stevenson, will return to Academia Lunare with a new work on Scottish Gothic Fiction: The Kirk, the Deiland the Grue Atween.

www.lunapresspublishing.com

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 8h

As a transgender woman trying to just live a simple quiet life in the UK, I'm pretty well placed to say this paragraph is complete bullshit and this government are shameless liars as well as hateful bigots who are actively shutting me out of participation in society.

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 8h

… contains the following:

‘The UK is unwavering in its commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights for all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other LGBT+ individuals.’

… and …

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 7h

One hundred percent this. Transmisogyny is misogyny.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 7h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 21h

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back