Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
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Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
If you only read one bleak account of shit platforms this year, make it this one
I hate the people who've made it so I can't go a single day without being annoyed or inconvenienced in some way by AI. I hate AI pushers for the big problems AI causes, but I also hate them for making EVERY SINGLE DAY a little bit worse than it would've been if they weren't oozing slop everywhere.
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
I love the squeaky cheese dearly but guys it is not a gruyere aged in caves or something and the primary ways of eating it are car snack and drenched in gravy
thank fuck for some small bits of good news
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First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
(conservative thinking about art) art would be better if artists were normal
Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership
the public school system should teach you how to make prosciutto
This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.
Did this with some friends on Zoom during the pandemic and it ranks up there with both the most unhinged and wonderful things to come out of what was otherwise, well, you know
the good news this will only happen 2-3 more times before I starve to death during the AI Wars
operation epic fury was carefully selected from a list of respectful names including
operation epic pwn
operation so fury, much illegal
operation jesterbombing, furymaxxing
People keep telling me impeachment isn’t possible but *Donald Trump* is the fucking president for a second time and he just launched a war in a fucking baseball hat so in fact anything and everything are *possible*
Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather
I have an article coming out soon that has this as its thesis! Basically all of my post-book scholarly work lately has been a version of it! I will be yelling about this until I’m dead, probably!!
imagine being stuck on an endless deployment in pete hegseth's navy and learning that by stuffing a t-shirt into the toilet you can send a nuclear powered aircraft carrier running to find a port as if the ship itself has just shit its pants, which it kinda has
Genuinely really enjoying this slice of The Discourse, it is an excellent reprieve from all the other Discourse
(as an aside, I am not afflicted by hubris; I absolutely could not do this regardless of how the 24 hours was sliced up)
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
Dulux colour card which includes paint colour 'Simone Weil'
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind While Painting the Front Fence.
In other news I had the delightful experience yesterday of meeting with one of my grad students who showed up with ice skates slung over their shoulder bc that is how they got to the office ❄️
Just read that little exchange between the president of Wesleyan and a certain internet-poisoned former prof in the Chronicle, and wow, it’s gross watching someone try to become the next Thomas Chatterton Williams in real time. That is today’s inside baseball post
Streaming services badly need a “I am listening to trash and I know this. Do not recommend me more like this.” mode
