johncarlweaver.bsky.social
A soon-to-be-retired English teacher
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So you mean meatheads like Chris Cilliza?
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Kind of like male bonobos, doing penis fencing.
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So, if they get rid of Medicaid, who do I contact to get my over 40 years of FICA payments?
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I’m a soon-to-be retired English teacher, and for the past two years, I have gotten a lot of AI slop from students. It’s all garbage, and when I told them use of AI was plagiarism, I also let them know that AI steals from real writers and artists, so using ChatGtp counts double against them.
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Are there no prisons? Are there no workshouses?
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My last writing assignment for my high school seniors is the commencement speech. At least a third turned in AI slop. From the beginning of the year I told them that all LLM are based on theft of actual writers and artist. That, and I defined use of AI as plagiarism.
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I feel seen.
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Ah god, my AI trigger word is “nuanced.”
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As a public high school English teacher getting within days of retirement, the AI swill my students are turning is less than mediocre garbage. It’s obvious when a program wrote it, scraping the dregs of the internet to trowl out its garbage.
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We have a really good history department at my high school, but somehow this event slipped through the cracks. It’s upsetting.
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I have a single classroom copy of Kent State, and I point it out to students. They know nothing about it, so clearly we are not teaching it in classes. I give them the lowdown, and when they read it, they are horrified.
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God Rick, I was on the Usenet groups in the mid to late eighties, and a encountered dozens of Yarvins, and probably interacted with him. First I tried reasoning with the Yarvins, but I finally would just end with "What the hell's wrong with you?" The Yarvins are dumb pseudointellectuals.
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🎶 What a long strange trip is been 🎶
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But, I mean, cut Stephen Miller a break, he was just born when the automotive industry moved out of the United States. Maybe he doesn’t know? Except for Suburu, which moved to Lafayette, Indiana.
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Well, when lived in an oven of a duplex on top of the one hill in Lafayette, Indiana when I was a grad student in English, I sometimes thought I might die on that hill.
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The exact right response. My niece’s wife lent it to me, and your novel really makes me happy in this dark time.
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Ok, I have a question. What the hell am I reading? I mean it’s great, but damn!
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And I love how the poster assumes men don’t do those things, which many men do, both trans and cis.
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*ad <sigh>
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Oh man, I remember this actual add in the newspaper!
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And despair?
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Anyway, I hope artificial intelligence has taught you something about your book. (There are students who use ChatGTP to do assignments. They don't understand how I can figure it out.)
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"Whitey, the dog catcher in Trashed, is a minor but unforgettable character who adds a darker tone to the story. He’s portrayed as gruff, emotionally detached, and disturbingly comfortable with the more heartbreaking parts of his job. Whitey deals with stray animals"
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"Marv is one of the supervisors in Trashed, and he represents the bureaucratic, out-of-touch side of the sanitation system. As a boss, he’s more focused on rules, schedules, and keeping things running “by the book” than on understanding what the workers are actually going through."
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"Sue Robinson is one of the few residents in the town who shows genuine kindness and respect to the garbage workers. She goes out of her way to be friendly, offers them drinks on hot days, and treats them like real human beings."
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"Bone is the grizzled, long-time garbage man who works alongside the narrator, J.B. At first glance, Bone seems like a stereotype: rough, crude, maybe even a little lazy. He’s constantly smoking, swearing, and telling gross stories about his time on the job."
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"Woody is another one of J.B.’s coworkers in Trashed, and he represents the young, stuck, and frustrated side of life in a dead-end job. He’s around the same age as J.B., and like him, he didn’t plan on becoming a garbage man."
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Holy cow! Belle du Jour! What a movie!
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Hi Mark! Fuck Trump
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Enjoy Paris, man.
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Okay, I’ll throw in a couple of songs from my old werewolf musical.
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He wears his pants around his nipples.
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Cyclops can brew his tea with his heat vision!
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If you take the doors off, we can take them, but to take the whole cybertruck, you have to wait for heavy trash day in March.