Just this week, the ads on my silly little phone game are “Google Gemini - just take a picture of your maths homework and it’ll do all the work for you, including pretending you understand the working-out”.
It’s illegal to run a human-powered essay mill, but this is FINE…
Apparently that stint with the Canucks wasn’t enough to fully sewer his reputation so he’s coming back to try another approach.
The department I did my PhD in will soon be no more. But at least the remaining academics will be available to be forcibly rented out to mining companies, as is clearly the point of university research. Right? RIGHT..?
Venting helps though. Best use I’ve found for this app honestly.
Nah. They’ll just make me groggy in the morning.
I’ve got things that matter to ME. I’ve written 8 chapters of a novel I’d love to finish. I want to hike the Bruce Trail before I’m 50. I really miss doing research and writing. I’ve put so much aside trying to do what’s right. And getting constantly kicked in the teeth for it is really frustrating.
So I’ll go to bed, sleep like crap because all this is on my mind, get up tomorrow to make people coffee and breakfast and feed the dog, and then try to figure out an impossible solution to make it all work. And everyone will still be unsatisfied, and I’ll have more work to do. I guess that’s life.
And why don’t I do that? Because I’d miss my dog and no one would walk her and feed her like I do. Because my students grades would be delayed and most of them don’t deserve that. Because people rely on me for things. My ideology is based in mutual aid and saying “nope!” would be selfish so I can’t.
It’s one of those nights where I honestly feel like putting on my shoes, leaving my phone and wallet by the door, and just … walking. Let fate take me. It’s gotta be better than doing everything I can to make people happy and constantly failing.
It has been A. FECKING. WEEK.
I’m so sick of no-win scenarios. I’m so over being told I’m good at my job in one breath and run down in another. I’m so frustrated with fake support - “we understand your job means working outside usual hours etc” - until it’s not convenient. What does actual support look like? I wouldn’t know.
Spent all night trying to make things right with a student affected by a tech problem during an online exam. Result? Tech support has no explanation why my solution didn’t work. Student thinks I’ve been unfair. Family is mad I spent all night on email.
I give. I tap. I surrender. Whatever.
I am having the worst week so I’m treating myself to a little sob while sitting in my car in the parking lot.
Last day of teaching for the semester and I think I might be late because my dog has fallen asleep on my legs. She is snoring gently. I cannot possibly move.
Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.
This is a VERY GOOD QUESTION.
Not well-versed in flat earthers mythology, do they think the moon is flat too? All planets? Or just earth?
I’m also a huge fan of Nick Claxton’s work:
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I mean, including everyone who made the decision to integrate this heinous technology into the already profoundly dehumanizing process of immigration vetting.
This should be a government-altering scandal and no one will even notice it happened.
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
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Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."
I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
Theory: you can work out why Britain is the way it is by looking at which public figures who get abuse and threats also get mass media sympathy, solidarity and an honour guard of militant defenders, and which ones are treated as dangerous lunatics who had it coming.
This is completely insane, lads. It’s not her that’s obsessed with anything, it the tiny gaggle of absolute headbangers who have not stopped screaming at her about it for five years. *You* are the wackos here, not her.
Same. Same.
We know why. Every damn body knows why.
No one is bigger than the movements for liberation and decolonization. Because the movements are large, they will attract parasites. Some of them are charismatic, make good arguments, and rally people. But if they ultimately feed off movements for their own ends, they are never more than parasites.
They are not common but do exist. Haudenosaunee Confederacy for example. Clan mothers were the highest political authority. Men were chiefs who were day to day leaders but took instruction from, were installed and could be removed by clan mothers.