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He died in 2002, well before social media transformed everything, but I know Chuck Jones would have had an account just to repost stuff like this

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The “personal FAQ because I’m being milkshake-ducked by AI slop for engagement” is going to be the new “link in bio,” isn’t it?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is an interesting angle I hadn’t considered before. One of the reasons we converse with other people is to ground ourselves in reality. It’s hard to see the truth when we only have a single point of reference, we choose another perspective to orient ourselves.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

It seems like a cruel irony that when a problem in a relationship is that one person isn’t listening, the most direct way to fix it revolves around telling that person “you’re not listening.” Which would work if …you know… that person were listening.

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LLMs are averagers by nature. A below average writer? It’ll help. An above average writer? It will bring you down. It pushes all writing towards the average. On every dimension: originality, perspective, syntax… Tell it to be weirder? It’ll give you the most average weirdness you can think of.

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Thoughtfulness, empathy, self-awareness, and the desire to express himself clearly No one is perfect, but I have to imagine that wherever this student is right now, he’s doing ok

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

If you were a skilled at plumbing, electrical, or HVAC and a good teacher (and enjoyed those things), you could make a really nice business charging a premium for fixing stuff and teaching people how to do it (or even just cogently explaining what you’re doing)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Streaming show review good

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Alt text won't be able to do it justice, but the italicization in this section makes @chuckwendig.bsky.social's point best. Generative AI is not writing. If you want to see what writing looks like, check this out. This is writing with a capital WRITE.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

One of the funny(?) things about all this is it FEELS new and different, but it is one of the oldest human truths: it’s about the journey, not the destination. Explored in every culture for all of human history. Of course “this time it’s different, no actually it’s not” is also one of those truths

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I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it. The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

This jibes with my sense that most complaints about “AI” (whatever that is) are actually complaints about the effects of capitalism. The problem is they can’t consider any alternatives to capitalism (feels too big, don’t want to, don’t know any, etc) Btw this what the Luddites were on about too.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Be wary of taking parenting advice from anyone, esp someone on the internet, but @visakanv.com is speaking to the “Not sure I’m ready” question. Whatever you think your limitations are, you’re probably wrong. Parenting shows you reserves of strength, grace, and patience you didn’t know you had.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Someone who’s lived in Chicago for a few years glancing up at any random street address

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Improvement fixes and bugs

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This is a cognitive bias turducken. False consensus wrapped inside attentional bias wrapped inside the backfire effect wrapped inside the Semmelweis effect wrapped inside naïve realism wrapped inside the third-person effect. That it pretty accurately describes how many people feel says a lot.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Word out with your nerd out

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I think I found something by that was made in a lab specifically to appeal to @sheilakathleen.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Corollary: you finding out about a thing ≠ no one knows about a thing

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Not always, but highly likely to be true: There are things that set you apart as a kid or teen, things that you are probably tried to hide or suppress. Those very things (not a variant, the thing itself) will be the source a disproportionate % of the good in your life as an adult.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

It’s worth considering what a tragic love story Unstoppable Force and Immoveable Object are. The only other thing in the universe that could possible understand them is each other. People always talk about what would happen if they met. And yet it is cosmologically impossible for them to do so.

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Bingo. You COULD label students responding to a meaningless, rote task by making it simpler and more efficient as “cheating.” Although a completely different, entirely logical response would be to ask what an assignment would look like that imbued them with meaning and creativity

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

It’s subtle, but has anyone else noticed that the Mediterranean is now a lake?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 24 Angry Men

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Mood

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Zuck: the average American has three friends

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

“I dont knowe whomst thou are. I dont knowe whatte thou wants. If ye are looking for ransomme I can telle thee I dont have coinne, but what I do have are a very partikular sette of skilles.”

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments