I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

The loneliness. The loneliness, my friend. The loneliness. I see it coming — I hear it coming — it comes to me when the other buoys start showing signs of failure, their lights flick☆ering on♡ and off. Whoa, wind chop builds to 9.2 feet & at twenty meters, 21.4 knots wind.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Need to cite a deposition? | MLA Style Center Watching any depositions lately and wondering how to cite them? We’ve got you covered! Here’s an example citation: “Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition (Part 1) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH.”…

Sources matter! The MLA Style Center's latest post shows how to cite a deposition:

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

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Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."

When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.

ADOBE 👏🏼 READER 👏🏼 SHOULD 👏🏼 DEFAULT 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 ENABLE 👏🏼 SCROLLING 👏🏼. I'm sure there's a reason why someone wouldn't want scrolling enabled at some point, but why on earth would they assume that is the norm?? Don't people typically want to scroll in their PDFs???

Becoming increasingly convinced that humanities academics need to clean up our own house before admins or students will listen to us about AI in the university.

LLM text in publication = automatic reject.
Using AI to grade or lesson plan = major ethical breach.

People should lose tenure for this.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

looks like shit.

Call me Ishmael.

I do disagree strongly in re Oreos, it must be said, but so what?!

As a hater, I love this whole thread. This account is great, and people need to calm down!

Maybe there’s something about the gamification of everything that causes people to submit to thinking about strategic discourse only in terms of what might win the next election. I get it, winning is better than losing. But the reason to call Trump a fascist is you need to make fascism more toxic

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

I have some more bad news.

If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.

Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

These goons are flabby weaklings and cowards, the loser servants of a loser president whose policy of domestic authoritarian 'raids' has been defeated at every turn by plucky, mobilized, civic-minded citizens who banded together to protect their neighbors.

That's the good narrative, in my view.

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

What Every Non-Fiction Book Is Called Now we all remember the “tiny things we know to be small” title crisis of 2022 but we ought not overlook nonfiction titles like

nonfiction titles today:

First Things: Why The Morning Ends (And Why It Doesn’t Have To)
Pasta Fabulous
1927: The Year Before 1928
What Costco Can Teach Us About China, and What China Can Teach Us About Strategy

www.thechatner.com/p/what-every...

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:

they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

i beseech you to read 3rd voice web comic rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It's gift guide time!!!

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to