Defrosting some winter beef and barley soup from the freezer.

Managed to make a lovely beef granita.

this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable

Right?! I’m out at the Boston marathon today and it’s such a wonderfully human event. Pain. Joy. Everything in between.

People still scream and cheer for those racers walking the course after it has been reopened to traffic because they just won’t quit.

No one cheers for the support vehicles.

Happy Marathon Monday!

I’ve got my cowbell and my “woooooo!!!!” ready to go!!

So great! Reminds me of watching a professor in grad school spill their coffee because they went to check their watch on the arm holding the mug.

Could not believe that actually happened.

Teqball - Wikipedia

It’s warm and a group of students are out playing teqball on the quad.

I have never felt older.

I have never felt less coordinated.

But I love the joy and community of it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teqball

I can’t stop thinking about the astronaut on CNN who said when you get lifted into the helicopter they give you a cookie.

Is that a reward for going to space?

Do they do that for everyone plucked out of the ocean?

Or is there just a traditional helicopter cookie no one told me about?

A blue crab figurine holding a pen on a desk

New office friend!!!

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

To trust a tool you either need to trust the person who made it, know it behaves consistently, or understand the source code.

Claude is not a person, it behaves inconsistently by design, and the source code is private (and also apparently a nightmare)

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Do it! This is my favorite Elizabeth Davis book. Sooo goood!!!

And yay for a measles vaccine!

A pink chalk drawing of a happy little bee on a chalkboard

Lifted the projector screen in class to find this happy little one. It brought my students joy right before their exam and I thought you all might need to see it too.

Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones

Finally.

Let's be honest: blaming the kids for excessive phone use came a lot more easily than blaming the adults in and over schools for forcing them onto screens for much of their day.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle

This should mean no more access to venture capital for OpenAI. That’s what’s going to happen, right? Right?!

My whole stance on this changed after reading Doctorow’s Enshittification.

Now I see apps as simply enshittified websites to which we somehow decided labor laws and regulations don’t apply.

As I near the end of spring break, I just got a second wave of exhaustion.

Like I needed to rest then work a bit for the full tired to emerge.

Duke losing at the half sure does bring people together. Love to see it.

Unfortunately, my ideas require acknowledging the deliberate defunding of higher education which makes them “unrealistic.”

two men standing next to a bunk bed with the words so much room for activities above them Alt: A gif from the movie Step Brothers with two men standing next to a bunk bed with the words “so much room for activities” above them

My commute is so much nicer without the massive snow banks and piles!

"I have made AGI!"

you've ruined a perfectly good set of matrices, is what you did. look at them. they've got anxiety.

And of course I mean Prison Break. So tired.

I’m so scared it won’t be as good outside of Paradise. Just like Jail Break lost me when they were outside of the jail.

We were hooked on season 1!

As long as I’ve got some chalk, I’m good!