Grammarly and LLM companies advocate the equivalent of everyone using wheelchairs because why should we be vexed with all this ridiculous walking??
11.03.2026 11:05
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Grammarly and LLM companies advocate the equivalent of everyone using wheelchairs because why should we be vexed with all this ridiculous walking??
There's a big caveat here around people who have English as a second language or have an impairment like dyslexia. People who need support should have the tools to enable them. But just because some people need wheelchairs doesn't mean we should all use them.
Grammarly and similar companies operate on the premise that people should not have to learn how to write well because computers can help do it for you.
Do the work yourself. Hone a skill. Grow as a person.
Completely horrified to read about this. Unfortunately it tracks. People think that writing isn't real work. If you don't think it has any value, you don't have qualms about stealing it, stealing the identities of people who do it, or having a computer do it for you.
It's such a demanding role, vocally and physically, but the actor also gets to have a lot of fun with it. Eat your heart out, Hamlet!
Poster for Bat Boy: The Musical depicting a bat hanging upside down.
Had a blast at Bat Boy: The Musical last night! Such an odd show but bags of fun. The students at the University of Nevada, Reno put on a great production.
My thought all day every day throughout six years of highschool Latin.
A thrift store packed with colourful clothes and decor.
A box set of Wizard of Oz PEZ dispensers.
A fez with a black Pharaoh and the words "Al Siham Ritualistic".
Reproductions of two grotesque puppets from the Puppetmaster films.
Had a wild time thrifting in Reno yesterday.
Lady Penelope Investigates..
Someone who looks familiar
To our male readers of “a certain age” at least
The Sarah Jill "Lalla" Ward
Daughter of Edward Ward
The 7th Viscount Bangor
A black Model T Ford.
A bank of Whitney Houston slot machines.
A sculpture of a person skiing.
A sign on said sculpture designating it as "precious artwork".
Oh Reno, never change.
A display case showing the movement of an Accutron tuning fork watch.
This time librarian had a wild visit to the Bulova museum in the Empire State Building last week! Look at this gorgeous model of an Accutron watch showing the tuning fork movement.
#Libraries #Museums #Archives #Watches
I always thought it was unwatchable, much to the chagrin of my ex who scowled at me as I laughed all the way through the first couple of episodes. I thought we'd finally left it behind.
An onion-shaped silver pocket watch engraved with a rustic scene.
A rectangular art deco wristwatch with jumping hours.
A very flat silver pocket watch with jumping hours and a day/date complication.
A rectangular wristwatch with dials for minutes and seconds and a jumping hour window.
We hosted some gorgeous vintage Audemars Piguet watches at the #TimeLibrary this week.
#Libraries #Watches
Trip Galey is publishing a new science-fantasy novel that looks *extremely* camp. If you liked his work editing the queer pulp anthology "I Want That Twink Obliterated!" then consider backing this inspired bit of gayness.
#IWTTO #Booksky #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Queer
Me and the Space Vixen waiting on the train.
A stage full of kids having the rock star experience.
Me and the Space Vixen walking home tipsy.
Pure library joy at the 90 Second Newbery film festival in Brooklyn this afternoon. Kids make 90 second films of Newbery Medal books and everyone has an amazing time. This is the highlight of everyone's year.
#Libraries #LibraryJoy
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
Leftover rhymes include "fork (two-tined)" and "dork, d'you mind?", if anyone requires them. ---- Description: A Far Side cartoon depicting 4 people in surgical scrubs surrounding a patient from whom one surgeon is removing what appears to be a live porcupine. The caption reads "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains." Above the comic, two rhyming lines have been added, with another rhyming line added below, so that all the text adds up to the following limerick: In acute pain was Benjamin Horkubind. A treatment, he went to New York to find. "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains," Said the surgeon, as Ben was de-porcupined.
Yesterday my crack team of undergraduate limerickologists and I discovered the remains of a lost limerick within a Far Side cartoon, so we've reconstructed the full poem. Peer review is hereby invited, as we plan to formally publish our findings on a prestigious bathroom stall door later this year.
The Ugly Duchess from the 1933 Alice in Wonderland.
Then again, one can get too close.
Sad news about Rob Grant. Tangential to his writing I know, but I could never get over the opening titles of the early series of Red Dwarf, their epic loneliness – what a way to start a sitcom
youtu.be/HrNLLvAokO8?...
If you sneak up on it, you can startle it for long enough to take a picture before it goes invisible again.
A patron came to my library and told me, "This place would be so much nicer without all these books!" He asked about time locks, so I got him a book about them and as he was leafing through it he said, "This kind of thing really doesn't interest me." 🤦
#Libraries #Librarians #JustLibraryThings
Guys being Dudes
Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
"The devil is drunk, everyone! He went into the sky and tore it open, AND NOW GODDAMN SNOW IS COMING OUT OF THE HOLE HE RIPPED IN HEAVEN!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hol...
Who doesn't need some dots from the best domain name ever?
dottydot.com
So if anyone is looking for an alternative to Wired after seeing this ridiculous homophobic slop, I definitely recommend @404media.co. They’ve been doing some great tech politics reporting.
Fuck off, @wired.com. You should be utterly ashamed and run out of town for this.
Kenneth Williams. How best to mark his centenary today? Here are all the 'Julian and Sandy' sketches from BBC radio's 'Round the Horne,' written by Marty Feldman and Barry Took, and co-starring High Paddick and Kenneth Horne. Nothing funnier has ever been broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-3...
Screenshot of a review reading: "when my uncle was a prop artist for this movie he tried to stuff Baby's head full of weed before it got flown to africa with him for the jungle scenes, but he accidentally loaded up the wrong head, the one that was staying in hollywood for the on-set scenes. eventually the smell of weed being cooked inside a rubber dinosaur head by the studio lights became unmistakable and someone found it but my uncle was never implicated or at least nobody cared enough to get him in trouble when he got back"
Unexpected gold in this review of the 1985 classic dino flick "Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend".
A newspaper article titled "Twentieth Century Plea for the Rod" with an illustration of a man beating a boy with a cane.
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: Twentieth Century Plea for the Rod.
#Libraries
