The audience

Apparently the stupid and coke brain addled survive too.

Well my expertise is modern Islam and Hinduism, but I guess if I'm going to lie it doesn't matter hehe.

Context: I'm in small GA town and surrounded by people who still have Trump signs in their yards. I don't want to be antagonist tho, bc generally people are nice. But I don't deal with ignorant fucking misinformation well lol.

2/ and last time I told a guy what I taught, he proceeded to tell me the Quran says [various awful racist things] and when I said it didn't he agued that it absolutely did. (I've read the Quran 3 times cover to fiber btw). Then he started on Revelation...🙄

Maybe I just shouldn't go

Okay religious studies peeps...what do you say when you are surrounded by conservative folks, and you are asked "what (subject) do you teach?" I ask because I'm invited to a neighborhood cookout
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Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

I thought this felt relatable

Dear Brianna Wu:

I use this in my class, it's,a great one!

I'm also a big fan of Jack McDevitt's "Gus".

People using AI like it's some new miracle machine and a lot of it is just internet 1.0 but with more enviromental damage and stupider.

Student told me they liked ChatGPT because they could give a list of symptoms and it would suggest possible illnesses they might have. I was like "Why wouldn't you just google it, and then see not only possible illnesses, but proper sources for exploring further diagnosis?" and they were like wut?

Burn in hell, you hypocrite.

friends… would it be weird if i ask y’all white claw drinkers to send me those colorful pop tops from the cans? i want to diy some rainbow chains… i’ll pay for shipping!

I put this in my cart, but I want to read it NOW lol. I might want to use it for a class this fall.

LinkedIn post by Alexander Martin Mussgnug: My recent publication has several AI hallucinations. Including my own name (which is not "Anna Maria Mussgnug") And no, this was not because I was carelessly using AI. The paper went through copyediting at the publisher (Cambridge University Press). I had submitted my references with first names abbreviated (Mussgnug, A. M.). CUP house style asks for first names spelled out. It looks like, somewhere in copyediting, an LLM was used to expand them without sanity-checking the outputs. So "Alexander Martin" because "Anna Maria", "Moritz" became "Michael", and so on. None of these changes were clearly flagged in the proofs sent to me, so I did not catch them. The irony is not subtle, given the topic of my paper. The paper argues that we too easily throw overboard established norms and best-practices when we turn to new and flashy AI applications. And this is exactly what happened: a tool dropped into a workflow without the verification practices that have governed copyediting for decades. I work on critical AI studies and the philosophy of science, so I've been pondering this over the past weeks. There's a growing literature on AI in peer review, but copyediting is also part of the publication pipeline, and so far I haven't come across critical scholarship on the (apparently rather careless) use of AI at this step. It seems worth doing. My case is not the only one, many of my colleagues have recently had similar experiences.

Ironically, @universitypress.cambridge.org has long recommended a book known as “Butcher’s” as a guide to CUP house style! Here’s a screenshot of the author's LinkedIn post taken by an understandably disgruntled copyeditor:

A large black cat, looking deeply unimpressed, lounges with his tail wrapped around a bright pink mug that reads "bitch please i'm a unicorn"

Mood.

100% fits my mood today

Quote post with your favorite fictional coded or literal stoner

Janet for sure!

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

This Is Bullshit (And I Mean That Technically) I’ll be honest with you about academic conferences: they are not always my favorite.

Great article by Liz Bucar!

"things may be tough now, but there's always a light at the end of tunnel" The light at the end of the tunnel: (picture from Fellowship of the Ring, a faint glow growing in the hall as the Balrog approaches)

For reals ...

Screen with date Friday 8/30/24 Temp is 15c°

Well, DS9 s3e12 "Past Tense" gets even more relevant and painfully accurate every time I see it. The only thing that's not believable about that episode is that we use celsius by 2024.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

If I become really good "pocket friends" with someone on here or other platforms, I try to meet them eventually. Usually we have overlapping interests or mutual friends, so a conference, fan con, or in a city I'm traveling to and can meet for coffee. Some of my bffs were folks I met online first!

I got prosecco in fridge for that day. May it come soon, before he destroys everything.

I asked my conservative white students about this. In order of most presidential electability to least (after the usual straight white Christian man):

Gay white man
Black man
Physically disabled man
Atheist man
Any Woman
Muslim or Jewish man.

Well, at least I can hope for a President Buttigieg.

Dp people understand that these funds aren't being moved to other agencies, but straight into Trump's pockets? He is going to die and people will be finding evidence of his corruption and embezzling for years afterwards.

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.