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Dr. Holly Walters

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Anthropologist πŸ‘£ β€’ Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion πŸ€– β€’ Novelist of "The Way By" πŸ¦„ β€’ TTRPG Storyteller ✨ β€’ (Genderqueer πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ She/They)

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the Republican party deserves everything that's coming

10.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

09.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 454 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 15

Do these men not understand that you can, you know, not order things?

09.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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23.02.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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23.02.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"Don't look under the bed. They're already watching from the pages!"

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"Don't look under the bed. They're already watching from the pages!" https://shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/by-the-way?_pos=1&_sid=4ee358b4b&_ss=r

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23.02.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Imagine if we were the myths whispered in the shadows of the forest....

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25.02.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Almost all the art from By the Way is now available on the illustrator's shop! Prints, hoodies, t-shirts, and all the proceeds go directly to the artist!

I already have the Teddy Knight hoodie and I love it. Seriously!

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02.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
An old page from an old version of Little Red Riding Hood that has the words, "There is no moral. The wolf eats you one day. And until it does. The forest is beautiful."

An old page from an old version of Little Red Riding Hood that has the words, "There is no moral. The wolf eats you one day. And until it does. The forest is beautiful."

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07.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In 2023, David Brooks got all the attention he could ever have dreamed of for writing an entire opinion piece about an expensive sandwich he didn't like at Newark Airport.

(He also neglected to mention that $29 of the $78 meal were his two whiskey doubles.)

Society, I am sorry to report, survived.

09.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cultural Anthropology, checking in!

09.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Naw, dude.

Historians will definitely be able to explain how this was possible. Just ask us. We can probably do it now, if you like.

09.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

It was only a year ago that Elon Musk and DOGE were dominating the daily narrative. Now we're at war with Iran. In between we've had masked secret police in the streets killing people and well ... everything else.

One year.

08.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 355 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9
If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural β€œstuff”—podcasts, blog posts, videos, books, songs, articles, animations, films, shows, plays, polemics, online personae, and so onβ€”will increase. Will it submerge human originality in a sea of unmotivated, formulaic art, or allow for the expression of new visions?
β€œRight now, we talk about, Is A.I. good or bad for content creators?,” the Silicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier noted. β€œBut it’s possible that the very notion of β€˜content’ will go away, and that content will be replaced with live synthesis that’s designed to have an effect on the recipient.” One day, Lanier speculated, all sorts of cultural experiencesβ€”music, video, reading, gaming, conversationβ€”might flow from a single β€œA.I. hub.” There would be no artists to pay, and the owners of the hubs would be able to exercise extraordinary influence over their audiences. β€œYou would be getting a tailored experience, but your perception would be that it’s shared with a bunch of other people.”

β€œCompared with the specificity of real art made by actual individuals with authentic lives, I thought, culture generated ad infinitum, in a formless flow, devoid of context or personality, would be meaningless,” Rothman writes. But β€œperhaps we’ll be able to make meaning for ourselves out of automated art.” Read about how A.I. could change culture:

If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural β€œstuff”—podcasts, blog posts, videos, books, songs, articles, animations, films, shows, plays, polemics, online personae, and so onβ€”will increase. Will it submerge human originality in a sea of unmotivated, formulaic art, or allow for the expression of new visions? β€œRight now, we talk about, Is A.I. good or bad for content creators?,” the Silicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier noted. β€œBut it’s possible that the very notion of β€˜content’ will go away, and that content will be replaced with live synthesis that’s designed to have an effect on the recipient.” One day, Lanier speculated, all sorts of cultural experiencesβ€”music, video, reading, gaming, conversationβ€”might flow from a single β€œA.I. hub.” There would be no artists to pay, and the owners of the hubs would be able to exercise extraordinary influence over their audiences. β€œYou would be getting a tailored experience, but your perception would be that it’s shared with a bunch of other people.” β€œCompared with the specificity of real art made by actual individuals with authentic lives, I thought, culture generated ad infinitum, in a formless flow, devoid of context or personality, would be meaningless,” Rothman writes. But β€œperhaps we’ll be able to make meaning for ourselves out of automated art.” Read about how A.I. could change culture:

So, they're going with, The Actual Death of the Author.

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08.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading:

WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME
THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE

Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out-
stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red

Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

08.03.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 4950 πŸ” 1971 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 70

Read first. Ask questions later.

08.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a clock with the words spring forward written below it ALT: a clock with the words spring forward written below it

I didn't sleep well. The clocks are wrong again. The pets don't know what time breakfast is anyway. And I have things that need words added to them in a way that makes sense.

Nothing makes sense.

08.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not as if scholars and writers and artists have been grappling with understanding and explaining and expressing human consciousness for centuries is it

07.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

The original quote is by Brennan Lee Mulligan. I believe the image was originally done by bellilou42 on Tumblr. No idea if prints are available.

07.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
An old page from an old version of Little Red Riding Hood that has the words, "There is no moral. The wolf eats you one day. And until it does. The forest is beautiful."

An old page from an old version of Little Red Riding Hood that has the words, "There is no moral. The wolf eats you one day. And until it does. The forest is beautiful."

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07.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Our fiction generator makes things up!!"

07.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Instagram name!

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07.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Knowledge Is Worth Your Time A few thoughts about why we must embrace the hard work of learning.

Why bother with the cosmos?

Because it’s beautiful and also because you should feed your head πŸ§ͺπŸ”­
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07.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Considering the fact that my community is also Calvinist, ooooooh yes.

07.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have one article out already on Techno-Salvationism and Buddhism with another article coming out in a few months on GitaGPT and the "voice of Krishna."

The book is going to be a bit yet. :)

07.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I, too, grew up in an extremely Conservative small town that had a little park I would bike to as a kid. But then everyone objected to the state and county income taxes that paid for our park and public library. They're both gone now.

07.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...

arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120

07.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Language Models Hallucinate Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...

Users would leave overnight. So a fix exists, but it would kill the product.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664

07.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure.

Their own math shows that this would mean roughly 30-40% of your would questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I can't respond."

07.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The researchers here looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how "good" these models are.

9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as they do for giving a completely wrong answer: 0 points.

So, the LLM uses the optimal strategy. Always guess.

07.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0