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!
dillytodds-shop.fourthwall.com
There were days when I had chemo in the morning, and then was on the line by noon.
I don't say this as any kind of brag (it sucked, especially in March weather) but to show people that you can get out there. And you should! It matters.
Not a TTRPG, I don't think, but Dungeon Meshi immediately comes to mind.
animemiru.com/article/dung...
I hate that the last 8 years have made me an anxious person. 8 years of academic precarity. A cancer diagnosis. COVID. Another cancer diagnosis. Upcoming reappointment process that could destroy my career.
Last year, I was on that strike line though. My colleagues weren't going to fight without me.
A good critic, in my view, is always asking (of any comment) "What can the author do with this? Will this comment make the work better?"
And if that comment is "cite me," they should just quit immediately.
the Republican party deserves everything that's coming
"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.
Do these men not understand that you can, you know, not order things?
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.
Cultural Anthropology, checking in!
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.
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.
If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural “stuff”—podcasts, blog posts, videos, books, songs, articles, animations, films, shows, plays, polemics, online personae, and so on—will increase. Will it submerge human originality in a sea of unmotivated, formulaic art, or allow for the expression of new visions? “Right now, we talk about, Is A.I. good or bad for content creators?,” the Silicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier noted. “But it’s possible that the very notion of ‘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 experiences—music, video, reading, gaming, conversation—might flow from a single “A.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. “You would be getting a tailored experience, but your perception would be that it’s shared with a bunch of other people.” “Compared 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 “perhaps 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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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 Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
Read first. Ask questions later.
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.
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
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.
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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"Our fiction generator makes things up!!"
Why bother with the cosmos?
Because it’s beautiful and also because you should feed your head 🧪🔭
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Considering the fact that my community is also Calvinist, ooooooh yes.
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. :)
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.
Users would leave overnight. So a fix exists, but it would kill the product.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664
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."
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.
It can't be fixed because language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they come upon uncertainty, it doesn't trigger a flag or an "I don't know." Instead, the LLMs guess.
That guess is also not flagged to the user. So it is presented in complete confidence.
