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A few things. This media justice report

mediajustice.org/resource/the...

I really can't wait to see how big the lawsuit against grammarly gets and I hope the plaintiffs sue them into complete and fundamental nonexistence. Like, "the company has to scrap their code rather than sell it as assets, and then also dissolve" nonexistence.

It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains.

Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.

Technologies do mature eventually, and millions of people have spent over a century working on "make airplane go faster."

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What's an occasional typo among riends?

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I have a plan for this. Send Trump and Vance and Miller on a special diplomatic mission to Tehran, and let them off the plane, and leave them there. Perhaps with big placards around their necks saying "WE'RE SORRY."

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'

you want to see a murder

No, that's terrorism, which we do not acknowledge as "war" because that would imply that other people had reason to shoot at us. US! The most peaceful people on earth! Ever!

“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.

What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.

I'd say he's more of an orange color.

This would generate so much .. wait

*looks down*

has generated so much rude behavior.

BY THE WAY, acknowledging that writer pay is generally low and always has been does NOT mean that one should abandon the idea that a) one's work has value and b) that this value should be reflected in what is offered for it by others, says the former president of a writers' association.

Just a matter of explaining the comedy aspect of it to them.

it's SATIRE TIME thanks to Trump attacking Iran (part Epstein distraction, part because "he had a feeling based on facts") so I present to you a brand new piece:

A Much-Needed Update to Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” as Presented in Trump’s Daily Intelligence Briefing

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You know, I'm in the middle of reading Mira Grant's "Parasitology" trilogy right now, and Trump's tapeworm would absolutely be smarter than him. Eat the brains, Trumpworm!

Inevitability frame is insidious, yet we had 150 participants at our teach-in last week and our faculty assembly has been unanimous. Many assume that criticism is shallow, but upon learning what these products are and the power structures they support, turn strongly negative about their imposition.

Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."

I mean we're doing well enough that I got an ARC and swag but it's important we do BETTER so that KB has to put goats in her immaculately landscaped yard and then watch in horror as her dogs eat goat poop.

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ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…

Students who used ChatGPT scored significantly lower on the retention test (57.5 % correct) compared to those who studied traditionally (68.5 % correct) … while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning.
(120 students)

Please, it's also good for money laundering!

I've seen it tried once or twice. Fun to watch!

I always felt like I was doing better than some because I only kept track to the nearest dime.

This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like.

We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.

grok, working as intended, is maximizing the values of a dude who is doing way too much ketamine and who hasn't thought any of it through. if it works *correctly as he intends it to* it ushers in an eternity of darkness and puts half of us into debt peonage on mars

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs