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Music, education, existential dread, momentary glimmers of hope for a better world.

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KJ Charles's avatar KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
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I was just looking at Death in the Spires (17 in the Kindle store!) and I saw the AI summary of the reviews: "Readers praise the writing as excellent, grammatically correct, and free of weird words." If ever AI proved it was bullshit. I have never written ANYTHING free of weird words.

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant.

Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does.

For this reason, hope is what is needed right now.

www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Without downloading new pics what is it like dating you

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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For sure. High school is a really emergent stage of life--the ppl who walk across the stage at commencement are NOT the ones who walked in in Gr 9. They're all preparing to leap into the void. You hope they all make it; you wonder where they'll go; you wonder if you helped; you love to hear news.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Old teacher here: I love to hear what former students are up to, since most just vanish into the fog of the future after grad. That some remember me / my teaching enough to continue our learning conversation from years gone by feels really good.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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That's my cat's origin story! Drifted into my yard to play with my kids every day through August and September. We weren't even feeding him; he just wanted to hang with my kids, knew I'd eventually crack under his kindness and invite him in to stay when it got cold. Fifteen loving years now.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Could we please start funding the humanities again? It's not just that we're losing the ability to read, we're losing the understanding of what reading even is

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Scott Santens's avatar Scott Santens @scottsantens.com
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It's wild how many people accept the idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, and 8 hours of sleep each day as somehow ideal as if handed down on stone tablets. That wasn't always the norm, and we can do better. It's time for four 8-hour days or five 6-hour days plus universal basic income.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Interesting to watch my Bsky timeline vibe switch overnight from "Elon Musk is a dick" to "how do I win a tactical war against a police state" ru ok america?

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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I feel like this whole "pack the environment full of deadly objects then take cover and try not to die for a couple of generations" thing we're doing in space might be a metaphor for something else, but darned if I can figure out what. www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Would totally go to an Adventure Time bar.

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"Amazing season for the honeybees" is journalistic malpractice.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Your daily reminder that billionaires don't make money (or anything else). They inherit it then hoard it. Eat 'em all, but this guy first.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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This looks like one of those "type this message into your FB feed or Mark Zuckerberg gets your firstborn child" kind of chain letter things, but nah, it's real. If you're still using FB you should def read it.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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That's a lot of energy to produce <checks notes> bad jokes and plagiarism. I know a bunch of grade 10 kids that will do the same work better for a case of Monster Energy drink and some Cheetos.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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The success of a joke depends on it's ability to surprise us, and that's the literal opposite of how LLMs generate statistically-probably strings of text, so this tracks.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Secret lifelong phobia that I will accidentally say a novel combination of words in English that are homonymous with a summoning spell in some long dead language and a portal to hell will open while I'm chatting at the bar.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Seems NASA planetary defense officer emeritus Lindley Johnson is unfamiliar with this whole "climate change" thing...

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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The school year ends when the first black raspberry ripens. I don't make the rules. You're all dismissed until September.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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As graduation season is once again upon us, it is time for my annual PSA that "Pomp and Circumstance" is a hymn to the unrelenting murderous colonial might and expansionist ambitions of the British Empire, and that there are a zillion other better tunes out there to celebrate kids growing up.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Roasted by the studiously neutral Wikipedia writers lol

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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If you agree with a cause but don't agree with the minutiae of specific moves of the people actually taking action to further the cause, maybe you don't really agree with the cause after all. 🤨

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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist's avatar Christy, Butlerian Jihadist @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
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God creates dinosaurs God destroys dinosaurs God creates oil from the dinosaurs God creates Man Man destroys God Man creates plastics from the oil Microplastics get in Man's dick

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Which part of the hot planet do they think will kill you, exactly? (Hint: it'll probably be the room you are in...)

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Every extreme weather death is a fossil fuel industry death. Every air pollution death is a fossil fuel industry death. Let the lawsuits flow.

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Jon Green's avatar Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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Brent Toderian's avatar Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social
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“Nearly 2000 children under 5 are dying every day from air pollution, which has become the 2nd biggest health risk factor for young children around the world.

More than 8 million deaths of children and adults were caused by air pollution in 2021.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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"Look at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun..."
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc's avatar Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com
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"Your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends." is not even the second most barbed point in that string

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Make a band less mild Full Moon Run

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vortex egg, MLIS's avatar vortex egg, MLIS @vortexegg.regretfully.online
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imo, 'plagiarism' even misses the point of what is going on here. AI search is an information control project, where all available information online comes to the consumer through specifically controlled channels operated by black box technology that requires vast computational resources to operate

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Butts, Butts, and Moore Butts...?

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Up in Alberta there's a popular photo op at the sign welcoming you to Picture Butte. You know where to stand. 😉

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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The don't know their likes from their likeness, either. 🙄

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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I've never understood why Angels of the Silences was not bigger than all of these.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I had a summer job as a "zero" operator for the phone company.

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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From the new Cyndi Lauper documentary 🏳️‍🌈

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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I'd be the nerd who thinks he can science his way out of the problem but succumbs to an unexpected blunt force trauma to the head before we've even properly seen the monster.

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Wow. Eight-track in a Dodge Maxivan flashback!

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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Was at a local bubble tea shop where a tiny robot camera tracked the lone employee's every move. I asked if she was okay with this and she said "it was creepy but now I'm used to it" and that's just modern life in a single sentence. I hate it here.

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Queer and Pleasant Danger's avatar Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social
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You might think that Godzilla: Minus One finally coming out (pun intended) on streaming on the first day of Pride is a coincidence. You might also be wrong.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point

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tpshea's avatar tpshea @tpshea.bsky.social
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"I don't know how to be a friend to humans but I'm willing to bet that the answer is more time spent talking to robots."

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