If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this
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If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this
Chief Nerd CHIEF NERD @TheChiefNerd X.com SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." 1:22 3:36 AM • 3/12/26 • 1.7M Views
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown
"FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
In a recent interview, Professor Karen Hoyland argued that women who claim to be autistic are just angling for a diagnosis, since researchers like her have made the prospect of autism so attractive.
Every time I think I've heard the worst of author events / terrible panel moderation, there is some fresh horror.
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
Describe your favourite games poorly:
- distracting from your destiny by flinging yourself from height at every weird looking rock or tree halfway in sight
- Feng shui your way out of the horrors of growing up
- learn that you had the skills all along one untranslated page at a time
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology
He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
i do think if you talk about people like this you should be put in the evil triangle from the SUPERMAN movies and hurled into space
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
It’s been raining for longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister.
One Island, divided over the essential 'artists should be able to afford to live?' question.
(Good for ROI, curious how 3 years on and 3 off will work for an individual developing their career)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Obviously some things are easier to obfuscate than others and some interview processes will make it harder. It would be better if everyone could discuss their reasonable adjustments and access in the workplace as part of the process. But this is why people don't disclose if they can avoid it.)
But it is always moral to obfuscate about clearly nonsense job requirements. If nothing in the job description involves driving and the person spec requires a driving licence then you have a reliable form of transport and make them test that with you After you have the offer.
(Unless your workplace is particularly terrible I guess. But generally we aim to provide training so that by the time the pressure comes, the staff know what to do based on experience/knowledge, not capacity to bullshit in a hurry.)
Also: provide candidates your interview questions in advance. It's an accessibility aid that helps everyone, interview panel included. And unless you're recruiting spies - maybe not even then - ability to respond to arbitrary scenarios under pressure with no prior knowledge is not a skill you need.
People are so bad at recruitment and it drives me up the wall.
And yes, some/lots of it is by design. But some of it is people never reviewing their processes, doubling down when challenged, not understanding that recruitment is a skill, and then wondering why their retention is shit.
If your essential criteria can equally well be served by org providing a stool, a trolly, or a taxi five times a year, it is not an essential criteria.
(Adjacent: no role requires GCSE maths/English or an unspecified undergraduate degree. Name the skills you actually need and ask for evidence.)
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
If you dont think Lupita Nyong'o has a face worthy of going to war for, I truly don't know what tell you, babe.
Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
A horrifying journey of a thread, but for whatever reason it was the opt-out comms choice that pushed me over the edge. Charities with 2 staff members know well enough not to do that, because we all did the training and read up, and the govt is paying these people to not even pretend competence.
Brianna met her killer at school. The killers used Tor to watch snuff videos on the dark web. The BBC and Sky initially omitted that was transgender from their coverage. The Tory party wanted her to be buried under her deadname.
I have no idea how social media plays at all here
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
An Art Nouveau staircase decorated with curved patterns and soft colors, with a nature-themed background and rounded windows on the walls.
Art Deco staircase. An angular, grand design in dark colors.
Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves.
Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.
