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He also genuinely looks like he's enjoying himself!

If it was warm, he wouldn't wear much more 🎸🎶

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For? Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

We have had this precise discussion many times before, with the invention of the book, radio, TV, the internet, etc. Knowledge of these discssions are freely available, but apparently the WSJ can't find it or doesn't understand its relevance.

Might this kind of thing be what professors are for?

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

I realize there are horrible things happening in the world and this doesn't matter, but if anyone ever interacts with Microsoft or meta products for work, how the hell do you keep your sanity? By and large completely garbage products that somehow have monopolies???

Fall of Rome: boiling wine in leaden pits
Fall of US: consuming leaden laced protein shakes.

(I'm joking a little)

I love this poster design!

Watched this a couple of months ago and it was excellent!!

Jamal Khashoggi would be 67 years old today had Jared Kushner not provided MBS with the intel needed to facilitate his murder. MBS later rewarded Kushner with a $2 billion dollar slush fund.
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Hercules Mooligan @hercluesmooligan.bsky.social • 2h Because I think a lot of people with less techy backgrounds really underappreciated how huge of a breakthrough this language capability alone is. In the space of like 5 years we went from the Turing test being science fiction to "i can tell this is a person because bots aren't this dumb" Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social • 1h the turing test isn't a test of technology, it's a test of human pareidolia people thought the ELIZA chatbot - which i once transcribed in BASIC, from a book i got at the library — passed the turing test Hercules Mooligan @hercluesmooligan.bsky.social • 46m I don't think the Eliza chatbot was able to complete people's college homework and upend our entire education system. Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social • 31m you're shifting goal posts. neither of those are the turing test. Hercules Mooligan @hercluesmooligan.bsky.social Explain to me how a teacher being unable to differentiate between a human's response and a computer's response is not an example of the Turing test. Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social • 39s i can see you talked yourself in a circle here and got confused i never said "chatbots don't pass the turing test." i said ELIZA does. you said "but it can't confuse a tired and overworked teacher!" and i said "that isn't the turing test." & it's not. hope this helps you figure it out.

the "chatbots are intelligent, they pass the turing test" argument in a nutshell.

The UK Green Party is surging in popularity, breaking the 100,000 member mark over the weekend.

Amazing what happens when you take a clear moral and political stance on genocide.

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

inspiring 💗💖

Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea

The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother. If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.

"If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to 'supervision at all times,' then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, and internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity."

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

I started reading this to my kids and together we learned so many new / old words specific to medieval life I had no idea even existed

It shouldn't be all that hard to be an attractive mate if you're a decent man who tries to meet women somewhere remotely close to halfway!
May delete all this, who knows

My wife (and I accept it) argues that even in households like ours, women still do majority of the emotional labour and household management tasks. A good test is to ask parents what their kids' shoe sizes are. Dads (incl. me) would need to look while moms probably know from memory

All that to say, I have been thinking about this thread all week. I am so sick of hearing dudes complain or others complain on their behalf about how hard it is for men these days. It is a male allergic-to-accountability epidemic.

I'm a married guy in a fairly progressive relationship where I do a roughly equal amount of the housework and share roughly equally in childcare etc etc. Absolutely not looking for praise, just giving context. Wife and I talk a lot about gender roles and how we want our kids to grow up.

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I am worried about the fact the two canadian experts in the articles were like "could be a good thing depending on the details!"

and we have 3 coordinated statements from republicans conjuring up terrorism threats

A photograph of demonstrators forming a shield wall in Myanmar. Their shields all have circle-As painted on them, signifying anarchism, the movement for a world without oppression.

Right now—before the next wave of street protests—is the best time to learn how to make and use shields and reinforced banners.

Protect yourself and your community from rubber bullets, water cannons, batons, pepper spray, surveillance, and snatch squads.

crimethinc.com/reinforcedba...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

I sincerely hope this is the moment of peace every Palestinian child deserves. But that does not reduce the trauma of what has happened. A genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I hadn't considered this before

This is a great thread!

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years