kittywampuss.bsky.social
Kittywampus on the Twit app. Came here for feminism & cats. Sticking around for the fight for democracy & the rule of law. Anti-Dark Enlightenment.
Would rather be dancing to Phish.
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Some cops were totally off the chain at protestors and journalists. That doesn’t negate the fact that some people go to protests to fuck shit up and they don’t care what is being protested.
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Of course! But that’s kind of beside the point in our present moment. We’re up against an awful right-wing media ecosphere that’ll take every image of something burning and use it to proclaim that these “riots“ must be quelled by force. Our job is to sway normies, not other people on Bluesky.
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A “natural family” is the family envisioned in Project 2025: father is head of household – a king in miniature. Mother is a homemaker who doesn’t work full-time but might have an MLM side hustle. Kids number at least two, preferably more. All attend church weekly. If POC, they know their place. 🤢
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I agree with this
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On top of SB1, this is too much. And knowing how university “leadership” in Ohio means copycatting whatever brainfarts OSU emits, I’m bracing for OU to follow suit. Ugh.
My curriculum: Stop cheating with LLMs. Pass my quiz on the top 100 social ills of AI. Use AI to show how it’s sexist-racist. 😻
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Exactly this. We who oppose the Trumpist coup are the actual patriots. This sits uneasily with me and many others who witnessed the flag and other “patriotic“ symbols be co-opted after 9/11.
But I think I need to get me some red white and blue paraphernalia, and so should we all.
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We do indeed. And my standpoint as someone who earned a PhD in modern German history is: This country is in for a long fight. I don’t teach in history now, having switched to women’s and gender studies, but I’m so grateful for understanding historical touchpoints relevant to our present struggle.
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Making faith healers great again 😵💫😾
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Let these doofuses establish special economic zones in space at their private expense.
Meanwhile, those of us living in reality/on earth should tax the broligarchs until they are mere multimillionaires, not billionaires.
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I love this formulation.
Two things can be true at once: the threat these tech innovations pose to learning, livelihoods, creativity, and our essential humanity is real; and what’s being called AI is massively overhyped in the interest of driving up the wealth of shareholders, VCs, CEOs, etc.
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I expect the bar for “mid” to fall and fall and fall iteratively as LLMs recursively train themselves on their own bullshit.
It’s gonna be slop all the way down. That might open opportunities for those who stubbornly insist on creativity? But I fear there’ll be $$ incentives to punish the original.
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Absolutely. I was a freelance translator when machine translation started to hit. It wasn’t a time saver but it was used to erode reimbursement for our work.
I expect that all translation will now be done by bots and there will be gigatons of slop.
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We should be broadly skeptical of AI on every damn level. My students use it to cheat. Upon graduation, they’ll lack critical thinking skills to catch when AI is bullshitting, which is all it does.
Then there are the broligarchs who want to use AI to rule us. Jobs are dwindling.
We gotta resist.
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Or borrowing in a way where you’re just slightly winking and everyone feels warm and fuzzy for being in on it
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Oh, believe me, I want these people to go to jail! Or Mars! And stay there!
I’m afraid that instead, Trump will give blanket pardon to all his minions and goons, and he’ll enjoy impunity thanks to SCOTUS.
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Is that feasible, though, or even in line with the rule of law? I’m not a lawyer but it seems to me that the statute of limitation that existed at the time a crime was committed ought to be the one that applies.
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I get up every day and cry exactly 5 tears for Dan Bongino. That’s more than the 3 I devote to Kash Patel, who evidently is still living in Las Vegas and therefore suffering less.
(Seriously, where did these hitmen misplace their humanity?!)
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No gender reveal, not even a sex reveal.
Anytime I see a rocket, I assume problems in the bedroom. Now, if rumors bear out, those problems are 3 to the 3rd power. 😵💫🙀
If Katie Miller is smart, she’ll buy herself some high-end toys and ditch the man-boys.
(Narrator: she’s evidently not smart.)
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Mark. I teach large numbers of college freshman. I’d be delighted to show you how AI is resulting in them learning far less than they ever have in my quarter-century of teaching. And yes, I’m an inventive teacher, not a lazy one! I engage them and I make them laugh.
Love to do the same with you!
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Would be so deliciously on brand
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OP doesn’t provide anything more than innuendo. I will totally be down for mocking the worst throuple in the history of humanity if this news bears out. But the sourcing is weak so far.
And yet. I’m not religious but I’m sending a little prayer up to the universe for this gossip to bear out.😹
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it doesn't stop being a bribe just because the guy temporarily in the white house happens to be the guy you're paying it to, and if the country is going to climb out of this hole, folks need to start saying a bit louder that those crimes will have to be answered for at some point
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The OP didn’t give enough evidence in her thread to convince me. I deleted my repost of the thread because of this. But oh, I will so be here for it if this absolute demon throuple turns out to be real.
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Ewww.
And: hell no! Even if his hydraulics function (questionable!), Miller creates a new Sahara every time he looks at a woman. 🙀
[incoming some weeks from now: Katie Miller is Elon’s newest baby mama and no that doesn’t mean Elon’s capable of liftoff either]
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I’m guessing that beneath all the Orwellian blather, the intent here is to prevent EU regulations from preserving privacy rights for their own citizens, which often amounts to protecting the privacy rights of US citizens and residents in light of our own government failing to protect our data.