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I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach
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Speaking of the public sentiment on AI — look at that complete lack of trust in both parties (and the industry) on the topic… What else polls like this? www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Every year about this time, we must rail against the clock lords, who have stolen a piece of our very life!
Pentagon use of AI reportedly responsible for the deaths of over 100 school children. A moral monstrosity.
Caps!
This is great. Setting the curve. Inverse Turing Test.
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great fun
When will the last dirty snow pile be gone? Over/under March 18?
Don't worry.
this reddit thread of people canceling chatgpt subscriptions is incredible www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
if not war then why war shaped
Episode 083 features On TAP emeritae Sarah Bay-Cheng and Kareem Khubchandani joining Pannill to discuss Annie Dorsen's article about generative AI as theater, Chris Grobe's new article about "botface," and "looksmaxxing." Can you handle it? Download and see!
www.ontappod.com/home/2026/3/3/083
eliza: how do you do? please tell me your problem. dan: i don't have a first sentence for this article. eliza: i am not sure i understand you fully. dan: i don't know how to start the article. eliza: don't you really know how to start the article? dan: no, i don't. eliza: aren't you saying "no" just to be negative? dan: i'm saying no because i can't think of an opening sentence. eliza: is it because you can't think of an opening sentence that you came to me? dan: yes. eliza: you seem quite positive.
dan: can you help me start off the article? eliza: you believe i can help you start off the article, don't you? dan: i hope so. eliza: why do you need to tell me you hope so? dan: because i do. eliza: is that the real reason? dan: no. eliza: you are being a bit negative. dan: yes, i am being negative. eliza: are you sure? dan: no, i'm not sure. eliza: how long have you been not sure? dan: the hell with it. i'll start the article by myself. eliza: can you elaborate on that?
when m.i.t. psychologist joseph weizenbaum created the program in 1966, he just wanted to show how computers could be used to converse in english. weizenbaum was shocked to hear that the program was being praised by professional psychologists as a breakthrough in the mental health field. "they told me that with eliza we could treat hundreds of patients an hour at state hospitals," he said in jack rochester's book, the naked computer (1983).
eliza, natural language processing computer program, example conversation & information about its application in the mental health field, commodore microcomputers, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/Comm...
Please share widely. I want everyone to know the truth about what’s happening at UT Austin. Faculty aren’t brainwashing anyone!
“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
good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms
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Ryan Hall reports 1,939 Dunkin Donuts locations are closed due to the storm.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTQ...
When I’m preparing to debut a new phase of my mid-life crisis…
Fantastic read.
Just please let one of these weirdos go to jail before I run out my time on this earth.
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
I now have a Mandela effect experience of this so thank you.
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