Danya Glabau

Oh yes, my family still there calls them grinders. We're going this weekend and will probably have some haha, gotta practice!

My area of Maine was a grinders place AND my dad was from Connecticut. People started calling them subs sometimes in the late 1990s after a Subway opened

They were still on menus as grinders in Bangor when I was last there in 2021

I have a reseach account where I watch all the different subreddits where people talk about LLMs, and in particular the various parasocial relationships they form with LLMs, and there is absolutely a mass mental health issue brewing among LLM-users

Now it's time to use the power of Dad Music to push through uploading files to our slow as molasses LMS...

I'll try to get organized to share the reading list this month

Oh boy I love my STS PhD syllabus so much it's so goooood

You know a sci fi book is gonna be good when it has a Chicago style, multi page bibliography at the end

All this to say, that was very funny, and, hormones can fuck all the way off, if I could opt into menopause today I would because this whole fertile phase of life is a hellish scam. I cannot believe I will have to go through that all again, for longer, this time knowing what's coming.

There is no hell like a hot flash on a stalled subway train in January wearing a down jacket with a toddler in tow. I absolutely cried from commuting hot flashes, which sometimes triggered panic attacks too. I had to stop taking the train entirely for a while.

In the last decade I've gone from 14 years of hormonal contraceptive induced anxiety disorder, to pandemic pregnancy and birth, to over three years of breastfeeding which placed me squarely in full blown menopause symptoms, especially joint pain and hit flashes. It took the past year to feel normal.

Mamdani doesn’t even make enough to qualify for some of the current affordable housing lottery listings.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

Lots of people on my timeline love that this article states recent CS grads have higher unemployment rates than art historians

But this isn't the triumphant evidence for liberal arts degrees that we want it to be.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

Frightening results, but I do want to point out while sharing that it's based on 15 cases with maternal positive COVID tests in Brazil in 2021-2022

This is an excellent question that I could give a rambling answer to based on my experience teaching Darwin as a primary historical source many times, but it's the weekend and I can't right now

My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

The primary use case is fraud.

While working on my Cyborgs course updates today, I was reflecting on how LLMs pass the Turing test, but ONLY pass the Turing test: the user believes they are intelligent.

That does not mean they actually are! It means nothing about the machine, everything about the user.

(Also too many people who are happy offering a shitty product as long as it allows them to fire their workers, who are expensive and want to do things like eat and sleep and see their families)

There's not enough money to be made in using tech for the things for which they are most suited and efficient, and there are both too many people hoping to be billionaires, and too many people not smart enough to know when they're being sold hype.

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:

www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

i sometimes say that llms are best understood as a video game genre and maybe that's actually right.

Don't Be Fooled By Trump's Plan To 'Upskill' Workers To Prepare For AI | TechPolicy.Press The future of work does not require an unquestioning acceptance and embrace of AI, write DAIR's Alex Hanna, Tina Park, and Sophie Song.

Tina Park, Sophie Song, and I wrote about Trump's AI Action Plan, the narrative of "upskilling" on both the right and left, and how the myth of AI automation is forcing actual workers to do more with less.

www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fool...

does anyone know of a good paper or article out there about chess vs go vs natural language as broadly accepted metrics for artificial intelligence? maybe from a history/STS perspective?

While certainly well-meant, I’m afraid I can’t say I am especially impressed by helpful suggestions that I do a little prompt engineering in order to get GPT5 to emit the right answer to the question “How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry”.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

*screams in feminist techno science*

I would be absolutely down to do meta guest Zoom lectures and talk about what “teaching cyborgs” looks like in our respective schools/fields/classes. Feel free to DM me

You’re welcome!

Woo!! One day we'll hang and compare notes, it's gotta happen