Congratulations, Dr. Öztürk.
“Öztürk said despite ‘the very brutal, illegal and unjustifiable experiences I faced,’ she remains hopeful the world can become a ‘gentler and more peaceful place.’”
It's an amazing post. Gave me a huge smile.
I am 100% on board for using these tools to do things humans can't do easily, like picking out audio patterns, cross referencing them with species distributions, and quickly picking out which species is likely making that pattern. Amazing. Makes life better. The plagiarism machines make life worse.
I look at this like your hate for mayonnaise. It is 100% ok, even if I don't understand it
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
Working on a dissertation right now. This is so true and so well put.
Dave, while this is really well written and hilarious as always, I really appreciate that your anger and sadness come through here. It must be really painful to see something you invested so much in get destroyed.
Thank you for this, Angus. I've barely been on Bluesky the last couple days, but the infighting is one of the few things I saw. I've been kind of saddened ever since. Grateful to know it's normal!
I have had one encounter with agents here - fortunately they didn't grab anyone - and it really messed me up. You all are unbelievably strong.
Fuck.
Solidarity from WA State.
Stellar work as always
Parker, I'm getting the feeling you're really good at this internet thing
Holy fuck. I wish I hadn't read some of this. Made it half way through. Fuck.
Burn it down.
tell me five classes you took in college:
ecosystem ecology
environmental geology
limnology (freshwater ecology)
stream monitoring
biogeochemistry
environmental ethics
(all are among my favorite classes and have led me to where I am. also, I'm cheating because I can't narrow it to 5)
Sure!
Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qd...
And here's the performance video I watched first, which she's referencing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
i did not even know about it until someone asked about it on our union's discord on Tuesday. feels very slapdash. agreed I hope it does sound good, but a strike has to be more organized.
the local news is saying several area high schools are planning walkouts, which is cool
I really wonder about the voice actors here, given their union is anti-AI...would they have known what they were lending their voices to? Could they have thought it would be a normally-animated feature?
Pluribus has a note at the end of the credits: "This show was made by humans." I watched a video by a swing band yesterday that included the following in the description: "we are committed to making 100% human-made music. F*ck A.I."
So maybe people will organically start making their own labels?
LOL! Well, vice versa then
(I kid—I just think you have a great idea and I'd like to read it)
Would totally read this. Now you just need a collaborator who loves writing nonfiction but hates doing research
thinking beyond peg here, this brings your "Abolish ICE" essay to mind. "it’s hard to dream of a better world when you’re still tied to the old one." Tyler, I have not stopped thinking of this since I read it 19 days ago.
Tal, I'm so sorry. You deserve a dad who loves & accepts you.
Small brown dog in the snow, alert and looking at the camera. Half mini Pinscher, part Chihuahua, part something else.
Haven't had any snow yet in eastern WA, but here's Tark from 3 years ago
Hey, some of us Xennials are here, too!
I finished my rewatch of Mr. Robot over the break and it, Station Eleven, and The Leftovers are all the most heartbreaking I've seen, but are simultaneously about hope & healing & figuring out how to go on after disaster. I really need that right now.
oh, Frank 💔
the people in mn standing up for their friends and neighbors gives me hope in a way that has been hard to come by lately
Is their other claim legally justifiable? (that he refused to be fingerprinted and facially IDed*, so couldn't be distinguished from their targets) Like, even if they had a judicial warrant, he would be within his rights to refuse to ID himself, no?
*Not that I think they're telling the truth here
Here's the video: bsky.app/profile/joha...
that day when 0.000000012% of the world's population suddenly departed
It really is contagious. Encouraging to see.
bsky.app/profile/dara...