I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
Imagine winning an Olympic gold medal in men's hockey and then *immediately* destroying every bit of that coolness by partying with a graspy little dork like Kash Patel.
in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal
must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you
Whale Evolution:
Flamingo-Legged Watermelon Mouse
Mutant Sewer Rat King
Gator Wolf
Steel-Jawed PollyWorg
Titan MerSausage
Paddington in the Chair Company (2025)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1756
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan
Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.
As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Hey cool, the Smithsonian Podcast episode interviewing me about space debris is out! www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/series/theres-mo...
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
That's not what these products provide.
Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards).
Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.
AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product
Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like.
On the chopping block:
• accessibility training for drivers
• accessibility improvements at stops
• end evening service on Sundays
• cancel 4 planned driver positions
/1 #yqrcc
Drop a lawyer.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.
Big loss.
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!
All of the above.
Thank you for this important thread, Jes.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
Imagine going through life like this
LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
