That's how I live.

I took a class from him. It wasn't really my thing, but I think he did a good job with it. He seemed to be pretty nice, and he was always willing to help when I had questions.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The AI Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna will discuss their new book, The AI Con.

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.

Register here:

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I'm glad I saw your post! I don't see anything about this on the university's events calendar.

Sora, the protagonist from Kingdom Hearts, poses with a peace sign over the grave of a bad computer program. It's also called "Sora," I think, but it's so unimportant it's barely worth mentioning.

They just contacted me for a followup focus group for this - & they said they still need people to take the survey! It's focused on Jin Yong's works but you do NOT have to have read any Jin Yong to participate. Any English translations of Chinese novels works!

This movie is why I learned to swim.

One summer, I would watch the trilogy plus The Making of Star Wars and SP FX: Special Effects - The Empire Strikes Back every day. After maybe five weeks of this, my parents enrolled me in a swimming class. Not as much fun, but it worked out.

My understanding is that the full story is even stranger, but there's a limit to what can be wedged into a series of Bluesky posts. He's also the basis for some early naval fanfic, courtesy of Frederick Marryat.

Reading Chinese Wuxia (Martial Arts) Fiction in English Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

This researcher still needs respondents to their survey for readers of English translations of Chinese #wuxia novels–share and help them out!
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Same. I'm sorry.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

I didn't expect the Leopards Stealing People's Data Company to steal my data!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Okay hear me out: the video game Satisfactory is a perfect example of why Gen AI is bullshit.

I will explain.

"I can reply," I write, not having pressed Reply yet.

It's a clear sign you are doing something right. The best I've got is techno-pessimist.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

wow GIF Alt: The word "WOW!" zooming in close to the camera and back out in a loop

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Seanan McGuire said "The Imaginary Corpse is one of the best detective noir stories I've read in a long time. It just happens to be about a plush triceratops whose best friends are a disembodied hand and a four-color superheroine."
You can buy it here! tyler-hayes.com/publications

(going to actually promo for me for once)

Hi. In addition to the sapphic and trans femme books I write, I also sell stickers, pins, and bookmarks. Please consider checking out my shop. I'd love to ship something to all the remaining US states I need to this year.

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Hey folks, tell them what you think:

Do I have any humans who make book covers willing to do an interview about the process? Especially Indie authors that make their own ( @danifinnwrites.bsky.social you are at the top of my list to bug about this 🤣🥰)

Covers are such an integral part to the sale of a book that Id like to showcase 1/

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord.

You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too.

discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I'm fairly sure Jason figured this out far earlier.

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University Our 20th most-read article of 2025. - - -In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it ...

“Our [university]system of governance (which management scientists term ‘Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,’ though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist

good morning

Visited the Disney studio during their outdoor holiday market a few weeks back and they had some props from Muppet Christmas Carol, including Miss Piggy’s Emily Cratchit costume. Looking at it up close, I never noticed this amazing tiny froggie brooch in the film.

The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?

If you're looking for pieces for an undergrad classroom that help show how historians do their work, we've got you covered. For instance, there's David McKenzie's exploration of a shady dentist-cum-gold miner.

Glyer has a history of "showing poor judgement," stirring up drama, and then acting bewildered by the idea that he has any responsibility for what he publishes.

His comment section is often a cesspit that he deigns to moderate only when it suits him.