stateisbad.bsky.social
will. they/he. trans jew. oakland, ca. best known for turning my philosophy career back into a hobby before it was too late.
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I hadn't realized the depths of my indebtedness to the machine-dog and/or obligation to the worker-child. I could have really fucked up!!
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Now I'm confused about whether generative AI is an earnest but untrained rescue dog that will wither without my devoted care and feeding or a range of intimidating new vegetables I'm coaching my adult-child-employees to enjoy. Can someone explain?
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Later in the same webinar:
"You'll be holding your team back if you don't model AI use for them, they won't learn to incorporate it spontaneously by themselves."
"Get them to try one new AI thing every day, just to see how it feels. If they don't like it, that's OK, but they need to try it."
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I'm going all out, I'm getting a dog babysitter (emotionally fragile chihuahua), I'm so excited
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Miserable. We deserved better, Phil.
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I've honestly never run into someone else who used them! To this day I have no idea how my mom found or chose Alpha Omega. We were never part of a homeschooling co-op or other community who could have recommended them to her. Must have been cheap and seemed comparatively low-effort.
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Ironically, I used to envy my peers who had these Saxon textbooks. They seemed serious and substantial compared to my flimsy Alpha Omega workbooks. But turns out the experience was the same: self-teaching, inevitably hitting a wall regardless of aptitude. I loved math but couldn't get past trig.
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hell yeah
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On the other end of the spectrum, you can absolutely get the HPV vaccine as an adult. My fundamentalist parents refused to let me get the vaccine as a teenager because it would have "promoted promiscuity." I just got my first round in the series at 38.
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Well that was a fun 12 inches of posts I got to read before it popped up again. See you all later.
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I suppose I could forestall this by posting incessantly instead of scrolling.
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Seriously, though, I love these guys to death, and Smart Communications Holding Inc can back me up on that.
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I have boundaries, sure. Not everything is on the table. But I won't be complicit in punishing my friends in prison by denying them real opportunities to know and care about me, and damn the DOC and its repugnant mail system for making this a judgment call in the first place. 7/7
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So this surveillance's deterrent function can also be a punitive knock-on effect for people who want more than anything to hear something real from me, something more than vague, circumspect sketches of my life and safe platitudes. 6/
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The vulnerability of opening myself up to incarcerated people that makes their care for me possible is at odds with the prison mail system's threat of surveillance. There's no clever way for me to avoid exposure when I write except to also deny that info to my correspondents. 5/
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People sometimes ask me if I'm worried about sharing personal information with people who have been convicted of violent felonies. That's not what I'm afraid of. I am afraid of the consequences of exposing this information to the prison-industrial complex. 4/
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Corresponding with incarcerated folks isn't just throwing them a lifeline of connection to the free world. It is in equal measure an opportunity for them to give care and support and to know that they can have a positive effect on the world outside the prison, like anyone else. 3/
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He's been in prison for his entire adult life and is unclear on the geographical relationship between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, so he's anxious wondering if I've been caught up in the fires and offered to help in whatever limited way he can. 2/
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They really are phenomenal. I never would have known if I hadn't randomly signed up for their bean club wait-list, immediately forgotten about it, and gotten a surprise email two years later that I was in. Huge fan of their ayocote morado beans.
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Consensus appears to be unshelled peanuts. Consider how many unshelled peanuts we could buy if our fundraiser goals were met!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/hel...
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Dry dog food is apparently so memorable to the crows a few blocks over from me that they will still sound the dinner bell when I come through even after months of no kibble. Can recommend.