C.E. Aaron Music Lessons

AI Cannot Take My Job — C.E. Aaron Music Lessons The idea that my role in students' lives could be replaced by AI reflects a fundamentally flawed concept of what "learning" even is.

Am I kvetching on my website about AI again? Yes. Do I have any regrets? Nope.

Read my latest gripe at ceaaron.music/blog/ai-cann... :)

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I've deconverted, but answered using the answers I would have given while still in the church, and yep this tracks tbh

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

anthropomorphic clock being threatened by figures with an axe and a hammer, caption reads SMASH YOUR CLOCKS! ending time opens all possibilities

I have it on authority that in doing this they are *trying* to help, but alas

ID: a black cat flopped on her side, soft belly in full view.

I also have a feline teaching assistant!! They're not much help with admin, unfortunately.

I went around to over three hundred people, hat in hand, saying, “Hi, hello, do you still want to be my friend?” Is there a universe where this is not soul-wrenchingly embarrassing?

New blog post up now, at ceaaron.music/blog/i-contacted-all-my-facebook-friends!

the only surprise to me is that she didn't already have it downloaded/memorized

[ID: a tired-looking black cat with her head on white cushions. she has a yellow duvet over her body, tucked under her chin.]

how your message finds me

“bud you express a lot of sympathy for luddites, for somebody who’s getting more techy literally every day” it is about the means of production!! comrade!!

Also just generally lately have been thinking about words that have become pejoratives that didn’t start out that way; there’s probably a technical term for this in linguistics: like “villain” (just meant “non-landowning”), or “Luddite” (people protesting theft of their livelihoods) #justgirlythings

Have been thinking a lot this week about how, growing up, I definitely received the message that “hacker” was functionally synonymous with “thief,” “criminal,” “general ne’er-do-well”… when, literally, hacking is just messing with computer programs. why did nobody tell me this (I know exactly why)

I've had Nina Simone's "Little Girl Blue" stuck in my head for much of this week, so it seemed fitting for my first contribution to #MusicWomenWednesday : yewtu.be/watch?v=5t5I...

mr henchman, hench me a man

all i'm saying is that if i weren't already saturated with hyperfixations right now, the way i'd be going absolutely feral on conlangs for the next 4-6 weeks...

thank FOSS/Linux that your feeds aren't about to be filled with me blathering about the Lingua Ignota ok

"bro don't you start teaching in less than thirty minutes" look, pal, a student of mine wants to sing in Elvish, I looked up IPA resources on Quenya and Sindarin, one thing led to another, idk

Page 68r from the Voynich manuscript. This three-page foldout from the manuscript includes a chart that appears astronomical (looks like a creation for a sun, or "fusion core startup process")

"back in my day they didn't have all this autism"

i'm sorry, but there is no non-autistic explanation for the Voynich manuscript, a document from THE FOURTEEN HUNDREDS in which a still-anonymous person wrote a WHOLE BOOK in a WHOLE CONLANG that has STILL not been decoded

Anyway, got a bit sidetracked; POINT BEING: yes, introduce barriers for sports gambling. Blaming and shaming don't work. Giving people some distance between themselves and a harmful behavior, so that their better judgment can kick in and help them out, does.

The moral failing is systems that feed rewarding-yet-harmful goods to people and blame them for partaking in it, while profiting from their behavior - both social media and the tobacco industry come to mind. (I don't know enough about sports gambling to know if that facet of comparison works here.)

Too often in discussions about "addiction" it's assumed to be a lack of willpower preventing that person from getting better, and that's simply not the case. Brains want the things that feel good. That's not a moral failing! That's survival-related wiring!

There's a term for this in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: "burning bridges." While "addiction" can be a loaded term, when there is a behavior that's doing a person harm, but is also providing the perception of reward to their brain, introducing barriers/friction to that behavior makes a difference.

Okay, never mind; prior embarrassment cancelled; I'm giggling and kicking my feet with delight because FRIENDS! wowie wow, I have FRIENDS! and they miss me too and we get to stay connected and the world is abundant and 🥹

the problem is the asking, not the medium, but I like the energy

also: pigeongram.com

Sometimes I wonder if I'm being too cautious regarding COVID - if my fears are as overblown as the mainstream has decided they are. And then I see graphs like this. Y'all, COVID is destroying people's bodies on a systemic, population-wide level. It's never too late to start wearing an N95 regularly.

like... they are my friends. we are connected online for a reason. theoretically we like each other.

so why does telling them "i want to stay in contact" make me want to perish? america explain

Hi um why is messaging my mutuals on other social networks to say "hi what's your email/bluesky/mastodon so we can actually stay in touch" so... mortifying?!

The Pleasure of Effort (https://ceaaron.music/blog/the-pleasure-of-effort)