This. My university keeps wanting me to make a “syllabot,” an LLM-based chatbot my students can query about the syllabus. And all I can think about is all the resources being consumed so no one has to use Ctrl+F.
Billions of years from now, humanoid robots meet alien civilizations and immediately start telling them that they're using Linux wrong.
Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.
Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.
planning for Batture Contemporary Year 2 (Louisiana-focused new music festival) has commenced
pumped
Did Anthropic arrange for "War Games", the 1983 AI (but we didn't call it that then) classic, to be on Comet TV tonight?
Like the great New Orleans kale incident
A couple of republicans in Congress could end this any time they wanted by honoring their oath to uphold the constitution
In an effort to revitalize my work life, I have changed the highlight color in Outlook.
I dislike how much being a professor in the arts is having to constantly justify and defend everything you do, including and especially to people within your own institution
RIP Eliane Radigue.
A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
I’ve said it before but your grad school cohort matters, y’all will be each other’s moral support for decades to come
New Hampshire? Wow. Misread as NC
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
Tell Erin that Jeff & Alexandria say hey!
you save the difference in health care out of pocket...
"prediction market" = degenerate gambling on EVERYTHING
and I may have made $400 in gigs on that weekend (in 1999)
no, a bit in parallel. I never played in Bonerama, but Mark and Brian did. The first Bonerama gigs had happened at that point but it hadn't really become the thing it would become yet
flyer from a concert at the Mermaid Lounge in New Orleans in February of 1999.
A friend sent me a pic of a show flyer for a gig I did in 1999 (I didn't make the flyer). At the bottom it says, "Support interesting music - show up." That advice holds up.
How Laurie Spiegel thought about Music Mouse in 1986-1987, from the introduction she wrote accompanying the software and an interview:
Just listened to a certain fairly obscure record for the first time in years. The players on it were very influential on me as a young musician. Is it as great as I think, or is just that it was important to ME. Does it matter?
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
Being furious about the Super Bowl halftime show isn't a "half the country" thing, the NFL wouldn't have done it if it was. It's a "loud noisy minority who also vote in GOP primaries" thing, and our electoral system gives those people insanely more power than their actual numbers merit.
made just for you
This is so spot on, especially the interim bit and the "go on the market" bit, both of which are going on in my family right now. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
No Kings includes Draft Kings
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
