Andy Hooper

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

The going rate was 5$ regardless of dual, while Revised packs were still for sale.

Lord almighty, Liz.

Single man at Nazi rally in Germany not doing salute.

It’s amazing how every damn person thinks (at the very least) that they would be *this* guy:

Yeah; he was more realistic than almost any MSM about Trump’s popularity.

A lot of people don’t understand how probabilities work.

Here's a fucking Republican being more honest about Trump's divisive tone than every major newspaper in the country

not Americans, humans.

We were built in a different environment - and (god like) tech can outwit both our Paleolithic endocrine system for personal regulation and our medieval systems for social cohesion. Instant worldwide communications breaks local bonds, apparently quite easily. h/t eo Wilson.

Huh. I missed this, but it's pretty good and interesting.

Would you like them here or there?
I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like AI* and spam.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man.

Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them for a spouse?

oh yeah? well would a bunch of weird freaks post THIS??? huh? huh?

I learned last weekend that “badass” is actually gendered. I hadn’t realized that before.

Regardless, I’m sure she is a badass. As are you 😆

Brilliant.
h/t Sean Tejarachi #liartown

Washington (CNN) - The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris against sexist criticisms about her lack of biological children, calling them "baseless" and expressing her gratitude for the presumptive Democratic nominee. "These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I" Kerstin Emhoff said in a statement first provided to CNN. "She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it."

This is a really lovely tribute both to Kamala Harris and to blended families generally www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/p...

President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

Mr Beast’s policies would be every economist’s wet dream. New AEA journal just for papers based on new executive actions.

Pocketcasts has per podcast settings of playback speed and beginning/end trim to avoid the intro and outro if desired. As well as 0.1x speed granularity.

I like it a lot.

SCTV (Second City TV) Seasons 1 to 6 [1976-84] Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran int...

Did somebody ask for complete episodes of SCTV 📺?

I used to use those flowers in my beehive smoker. Smelled wonderful.

Put Up Or Shut Up I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their in...

This week's newsletter: It's time to call BS on generative AI and demand that companies like OpenAI actually provide useful, helpful software, and actively reject the growing coterie of hucksters using AI as a marketing tool to get media headlines.
www.wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

They(we?) have tons of popular policy positions, but also unpopular ones that are weaponized as the core of the D “agenda”:

e.g.
Reducing parental rights
Late term abortions without medical necessity (basically never happens… but also unpopular)
Explicitly racial social programs

Indeed - the human condition is one of both (main character syndrome) and (protagonist fantasy).

It’s so common that a failure of these systems of internal regulation tend to be diagnosable.

“Millions of kind-hearted compassionate people agree that immigrants are vermin poisoning the blood of America, or at least are compassionate enough to get past someone saying that.”

He's not fucking around.

I have the everything, including the 5 1/4” floppy and the microscopic space armada, in my HHGTTG box.

The way forward is mutual aid. Feel lost, lonely, scared? There is a free fridge project or pantry near you. Make some sandwiches. I am absolutely not kidding about this. “Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake” is not terrible advice if you give it away.

Countless? If you cook as infrequently as you said, it’s probably like 6 times.

Which is a lot, but definitely countable.

watched Repo Man again tonight and it was excellent. makes a great double feature with Night of the Comet

You Dropped This King You Dropped This Queen GIF ALT: You Dropped This King You Dropped This Queen GIF

You are one of my heroes.
Thanks for your good works.

I’m glad Welch was willing to stick his neck out from the Senate. Ballsy move.

A lot of Dems seem to be asking the swing/low-information voters (who aren’t particularly worried about authoritarianism) to deny the evidence of their own eyes and ears, and I don’t think that’s a winning strategy.