Jill Anderson

I am the Gourmet Kitchen with no appliances or, well.... anything, wondering why the GREAT ROOM is hogging all my stuff.

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Fargo North, Decoder "Fargo North, Decoder" was a recurring sketch that aired in the 1970s version of the "Electric Company." In these segments, Fargo North (portrayed by Skip Hinnant), would often be greeted by a cast me...

I mean obviously this is is Fargo, but also, not a muppet: theelectriccompany.fandom.com/wiki/Fargo_N...

@templeofgloom.bsky.social Thoughts on who would be Moorhead?

@alejandroariera.bsky.social I concur re Northfield

I named my fists White and Noise because you're about to experience an airborne toxic event.

that poor graduate student...

Yes!!!

As God as my witness I, as a GenXer, thought that those sketches were about an incredibly annoying guy who the company placed in the copy room to save on paper (he's so annoying that no one wants to make any copies).

I can't wait to tell my students to follow the Pope's teachings.

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if anything, AI makes things *less* personal? Reminds me of when I was taking a terrible "how to teach online" course at the start of covid -- we were taught how to make the LMS address students "individually" (basically using a macro) to humanize the LMS experience. Had the opposite effect for me.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I watched WandaVision having only seen one MCU film (Black Panther), really enjoyed the gimmick, but lost interest when it turned into what I now recognize as just another Marvel product (and also something that got a lot less interesting once it was clear I was supposed to know the lore).

Also about devaluing originality by normalizing/hiding the *predictive* nature of LLMs -- "all writing is just words put together, there is no originality anyway"

One of the most consistent and tiresome truisms of the arts world is that people who do not give a shit about the underlying fundamentals of your practice are always very happy to tell you how your future should actually be in whatever random thing they made money on in the stock market last month.

Badger's Burrow This blend is part of our Classic Literature collection. Check out the entire delicious collection here! There's nothing like an evening at home, enjoying one's own company with a good book by the fire. When you wish to burrow into a coziness, nothing quite hits the spot like a classic cuppa: black tea with honey and l

This tea is an invitation to put on fuzzy slippers, crack open a book, rest and recover. A kind reminder that "tireless" is a fallacy and taking care of one's self is worthy work as well."⁠
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oh I like that! (my library is sticker-happy!)

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

Exactly! All I could think is, you think I can be replaced w/a FIVE MINUTE video!?!? ... I did appreciate one professor (in Religious Studies, actually) who asked if we could record several short videos of me in conversation w/her about how to do several short searching tasks. So much more human.

I remember bursting into tears (at home, by myself) during early covid when 1 of my depts asked me to record a 5-MINUTE video on "how to search for resources in [field]" that they could then put on their website & thus avoid "wasting my time." At a time when I was worried about layoffs. 😬

“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.

Surviving a Job Register Interview – AHA There is conflicting opinion about whether or not to attend a convention without a prescheduled interview.

Yes--the problem was that the conditions for getting the vanishingly few jobs (pre-2008 too) were awful hoops like ballroom interviews, hotel interviews, the job registry thing (www.historians.org/perspectives...). Same problem, different hoops.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

😍 I wasn't even a big tea drinker, but I have a TON of your tea now and it's so much fun to try the different herbal mixes!

this is how I discovered you! ❤️

yes yes yes

also our Democrats... 😠

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag Alt: lucy pulling the football away from charlie brown

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