The ADA was signed into law in 1990 why are people still acting surprised that they need to make things accessible. And OF COURSE the Trump admin is delaying rules that already took way too long.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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You know your student who just plagiarized one or two pages of their term paper?
How do you feel about the rest of it?
Because, THIS.
A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.
Red brindle greyhound with his head on his person’s lap. He is looking as pensive as only a dog with a foot long nose can look
Boswell wants to know why I’m not spending more tokens, and by tokens he means giving him biscuits.
Does anyone have any research (published, preprint, particularly good blog post, I'm not picky) talking about the ways that LLM output is particularly hard for neurodivergent folks to work with?
(Speaking for myself: editing workslop is 10x harder than just creating the thing from whole cloth.)
I've seen a lot of anecdotes and could probably dig some of them up to point to, but we all know disabled and neurodivergent people's descriptions of our experiences aren't valued like formal research outputs are valued.
Does anyone have any research (published, preprint, particularly good blog post, I'm not picky) talking about the ways that LLM output is particularly hard for neurodivergent folks to work with?
(Speaking for myself: editing workslop is 10x harder than just creating the thing from whole cloth.)
Also if you have pets - my cats are older and get zoomies less frequently now, but there's been a time or two when I was grateful I had my TV anchored.
the cooperative extension is FULL of cool people who would love to help you!!!!
and master gardeners are wizards!!
yall when this bubble pops we are going to need to make sure the clowns on this bandwagon NEVER LIVE IT DOWN
ten years later in meetings we need to be like "well you said the same thing about autocomplete sooo"
It’s a big ol’ chunk of pyrex glass
A giant hunk of off-clear (almost pale yellow) glass. A sign says “please no climbing.” A sign that might be legible at enough magnification says this is Pyrex.
I get pretty much the same sort of aggressive response to big hunks of glass like this that people sometimes get to cute things.
I got a Costco membership for gas and the best thing I’ve done is buy the big bag of peeled garlic, threw it in the foot processor, and froze it flat in a ziplock bag.
One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!
That is a GREAT haircut!!
Audiobooks count!
Comics (as OP says) count!
Short stories count!
It’s all good and helpful for your brain
Are y’all ready for a Word this Sunday morning? ‘Punishment and learning should NEVER be in the same room. Life gives us enough punishment, simply because "that is life".’
- the Karen Pryor Academy Clicker Training Foundations book
This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!
And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
Writing “made with real potatoes“ on your bag of potato chips raises more questions than it answers
12-foot skeleton with an anti-war shirt.
12-foot skeleton with an anti-war shirt.
This is Catherine Zeta-Bones. She lives in my neighborhood and has a great sense of style.
Other skeletons envy her T-shirt collection.
(Andersonville, Chicago)
I love that for generations of baseball, batboys would run out and grab the bats; everyone appreciated it but no one really cared or paid attention. Then they started replacing batboys with batdogs and now when THEY go out to get the stick everybody loses their fucking minds. Best part of baseball
Once you notice that fascism only has prominence in our society because of lavish subsidies, not any sort of organic or natural demand for the ideology, it’s hard to unsee it… and you’ll be angry about it, a lot.
Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.
Having a nice voice or video chat with a pal reminds me that I should work harder at setting up more real-time chats with pals.
Just a comment about baking sheets in general, here: I read, or heard, somewhere (and it was somewhere I trusted, like America's Test Kitchen, not just a rando on Instagram) that baking sheets don't really start to work right until they have a good patina on them. Genuinely.
Guys, I know the world is shit, but I would like a moment to focus the light on one thing in particular. Age verification tech laws are becoming more prolific and now there's a bill in Congress to require age verification at the OS level. This is horrible for privacy and it doesn't protect children.
