André "Normal" Alessi

They'll cut public transport first lol.

They'll cut public transport first lol.

I was putting together a PowerPoint for this week's tutorial and only just noticed a few minutes before that I misspelled "University" on the first slide.

You are very thoughtful! Even your rude tweets show that you've thought about how to be rude in an intellectually honest way.

Shéagol

Students have been using AI in our classes for years now. Teaching staff have been pushing back the whole time and treating it as an issue of academic integrity, but university management has not been as decisive, so some students still try it out until they get their first D.

"there's barely even any mines, jesus, stop being such a whimp" is maybe not what will really get the traffic going to be honest

"Let's make the leadership of our armed forces into an investor class. This will have no negative consequences."

A YouTube thumbnail depicting a monstrous and dead-eyed Mr. Beast, mouth wide, in front of the strait of Hormuz. SURVIVING HORMUZ CHALLENGE! WHO MAKES IT THROUGH WINS BIG $1,000,000 PRIZE!

Providing moral reasons for your positions is good, actually, and it's one of the things AI fucking sucks the most at. The students that are using it in our moral philosophy class never quite realise that their trite responses are unconvincing even to their peers.

R. M. Hare, What is wrong with slavery - PhilPapers This article discusses the definition of slavery as a status in society and a relation to an owner. an imaginary case in which utilitarian arguments could justify slavery. this case, just ...

When I first finished it, I was like, "Hmmm, his response to the first horn of the dilemma seems a little weak", but after a couple of days contemplating I'm pretty sure it's the best response possible (and his argument concerning the second horn slaps):

I hadn't read it previously, but I sat my free ass down and read it, and honestly? It's good. We're currently discussing moral reasons and moral arguments in class, and this is how you do it.

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

as a jrpg fan, my primary interests in video games are raising and lowering sewer gates, such as to manipulate the water level

A lot of media people helped stoke the Wokeness panic of ~2016-2024 because they all live online and people online are annoying in a particular way. So since then they've had to either admit they were suckered or double down, and I will not be checking which it is

I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.

Winston Churchill starved 3+ million Bengalis to death because he considered them subhuman, & conspired with the US to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran, & replace it with a dictatorship, to protect the profits of UK oil firms. As far as I know, no badger has ever done that.

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

I get that that was never actually possible or a good idea, but that doesn't mean someone wasn't thinking it.

I realise trying to divine the reasoning behind US foreign policy is a fool's errand right now, but I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder if someone in power proposed hitting Venezuela not for regime change, but for access to the oil they thought they were going to get for a war with Iran.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits

The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth

Best meal I had in Italy (a high bar) was a random little truck stop outside a small town where we stopped for beers after walking around an Etruscan ruin. The guy running the place made himself toasted bruschetta with peperonata smeared on top for his own lunch, and made some for us too for free.

Lol I remember that we used to get stuff like this pitched to a couple of the places I worked. Mostly pre-commercial LLMs, so it was usually pitched as "algorithmic", but behind the curtain they always had a bunch of low-paid offshore workers driving the results.

I appreciate that these kids are running an obvious scam, and at some level they probably even know it, but they're not the business geniuses investing hundreds of millions into survey clicker schemes.

I can lean on my actual experience to yell at everyone that this won't work! You can't identify emerging customer needs by aggregating data from the past! We tried this already with personas and again with big data! This is like the stupid business version of the problem of induction.

"Has anyone else noticed that sometimes people benefit materially from the policies they vote for?" I ask. "Doesn't this mean they're actually irrational and the policies they support are bad?" I am a professional politics knower and people pay me money.

Most aren't, but there's always one guy in an audience that doesn't need more reasons to ask long, confusing questions.

fuck your cold ass plums

I really don't want to imagine prominent philosophers on CBD during the Q&A session, but I feel like it's inevitable.