Karen Ulric
@wasagooze.bsky.social
School librarian, Halloween afficianado, owned by galgos. I raised a kid on showtunes and sarcasm. (She/her)
I may be standing in the front yard determing placement of my slavic forest and baba yaga hut so they dont interfere with the flying ghost. Like one does. #halloween
August 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I may be standing in the front yard determing placement of my slavic forest and baba yaga hut so they dont interfere with the flying ghost. Like one does. #halloween
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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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One of the things I find so dismaying about the AI-ification of engagement with writing is that it’s not just anti-creativity, it’s anti-aesthetic. It’s violence against the power of language and words, against their capacity for every kind of beauty
I am just so fucking depressed at the degree to which the definition and function of reading as “the basic conveying of information via the written word” seems to be the only one many if not most people are willing to entertain at all
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of the things I find so dismaying about the AI-ification of engagement with writing is that it’s not just anti-creativity, it’s anti-aesthetic. It’s violence against the power of language and words, against their capacity for every kind of beauty
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ROMEO AND JULIET
HARD ❌
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
EASY ✅
It was a shitshow
at the fuck factory
HARD ❌
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
EASY ✅
It was a shitshow
at the fuck factory
November 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM
ROMEO AND JULIET
HARD ❌
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
EASY ✅
It was a shitshow
at the fuck factory
HARD ❌
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
EASY ✅
It was a shitshow
at the fuck factory
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I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak.
Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.
Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.
May 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak.
Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.
Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.
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What if a eulogy, but 80% funny (I hope)? If you want to skip the potentially sad parts, just click through and scroll to the bottom - and rather than condolences, please consider a donation to the tiny no-kill shelter in Tennessee where we met Greyson as a pup.
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...
The Weird Hilarity of Grief: A Celebration — The Haunt*
A few weeks ago I was lying on the floor of my office, petting my old man dog and telling him how handsome he was before I called it a night. He was lounging half asleep on his bed, end-to-end with an...
www.cheriepriest.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
What if a eulogy, but 80% funny (I hope)? If you want to skip the potentially sad parts, just click through and scroll to the bottom - and rather than condolences, please consider a donation to the tiny no-kill shelter in Tennessee where we met Greyson as a pup.
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...
www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...
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Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...
March 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Oooh I hadn't seen the goose
February 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Oooh I hadn't seen the goose
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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February 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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At the stonewall monument rn
February 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
At the stonewall monument rn
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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
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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 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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.
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It’s not horny to celebrate greyhounds being meaty backseaty
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 PM
It’s not horny to celebrate greyhounds being meaty backseaty
This is the earliest I have managed to get Halloween 100% packed away in years. Usually there’s stuff on the porch until April.
November 22, 2024 at 9:18 PM
This is the earliest I have managed to get Halloween 100% packed away in years. Usually there’s stuff on the porch until April.
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This is a good block list. Best part is that as MAGA are added, once you subscribe and block all, all the new adds are blocked, too. bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 16, 2024 at 5:38 PM
This is a good block list. Best part is that as MAGA are added, once you subscribe and block all, all the new adds are blocked, too. bsky.app/profile/did:...
I am an avid reader, but not an author. But I did write a terrible fanfic inspired by Jean Aurl’s Clan of the Cave Bear when I was about 13. Luckily it was on paper and so has disappeared into the ether of time.
Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!
November 16, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I am an avid reader, but not an author. But I did write a terrible fanfic inspired by Jean Aurl’s Clan of the Cave Bear when I was about 13. Luckily it was on paper and so has disappeared into the ether of time.
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
Found a site that will import all your old tweets into Bluesky. Cost depends on number of tweets, but it seems reasonable. Mine was $5 blueark.app
BlueArk
The new blue land is waiting for you. Bring your stories with BlueArk.
blueark.app
November 13, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Found a site that will import all your old tweets into Bluesky. Cost depends on number of tweets, but it seems reasonable. Mine was $5 blueark.app
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All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.
November 13, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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