hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.
Manages to get through a call for focusing on teaching and civic purpose without even glancing toward contingency and adjunctification of faculty as perhaps a factor in the problem. A call to change without examining the structures that control higher ed is performative B.S. at this point.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...
Man, nobody makes you want to read the Bible like Martin Scorsese
It’s possible this is a guy doing a bit. “Find a new slant” is a direct quote from Bryan colangelo’s (or his wife’s) burner account
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
This guy is gonna Fetterman like no one has ever Fettermanned (besides Fetterman of course) if he gets elected
“Who Is Ana Mendieta?” is a significant and beautifully done work of Comics Biography that I don’t see mentioned enough
"Who Is Ana Mendieta? engages with multiple meanings of the word "trace." When reproducing Mendieta's artwork, Caron carefully traces, as in "to draw or to copy," many of the pieces. In doing so, the illustrator unearths the traces, as in "the vestiges," of Mendieta's life."
Paul Ranheim
Dennis Seidenberg
Dan McGillis
Flier for zoom event. Text reads: Accelerate or Die? Digital Damage after AI Acceleration The motto “accelerate or die” encapsulates an ideology lurking behind the rapid buildout of AI data centers across the planet. In this talk, after tracing Big Tech’s swift turn from so-called sustainable development to fossil-fueled acceleration, Dustin Edwards will insist that this moment of AI acceleration is not a foregone conclusion. In contrast to the techno-optimist ideologies that have fueled the recent AI data center boom, many frontline communities opposing data centers insist on a different vision for our collective futures—one rooted in place, attuned to uneven vulnerabilities, and dedicated to slower and more transparent processes of democratic decision making.
Looking forward to talking with folks at UMD this week! My talk is "Accelerate or Die? Digital Damage After AI Acceleration"
the kind of insight that is even truer out of context
Celine Dion wants the death tax!
Bugs Bunny is transgender for everyone!
The GEICO Gecko wants open borders!
Mayor McCheese wants to raise your taxes!
“The pope is weak on crime” is the funniest thing I have heard in a very, very long time
Reading thousands of articles about literacy in the NYT makes me feel even more strongly that talking and complaining about literacy is a way for the elite to ignore poverty and violence
All I can see are 1990s movie villain stepdads with bad coffee breath as I read another op-ed about kids these days
I’m reading 50 years of the NYT for a research project and there is a certain writing style that is now imprinted on my brain that just makes me want to, idk, like smash an antique tea set or expansive ski equipment or something
I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.
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This is really an extraordinary experience & I don't think it's been in New York much/ will be back soon!
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
Let's annotate.
1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing.
2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next.
3. Calls out his own institution.
THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground.
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Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Over and over, war crimes. Used to be effort at plausible deniability but no more of that. What is the rest of the government doing right now?