Dr. Steph

also, by the way

a lot of us process our grief by making art

they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions

it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads

it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection

your AI algorithm (or worse, the underpaid and horribly treated remote worker in India somewhere you are forcing to pretend to be your AI algorithm) doesn't know my dead mom. *I* know my dead mom. *I* know what she'd say to me. learning to give *yourself* that guidance is what wisdom looks like

we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal

you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??

I am currently on ID consult service. I saw my first severe case of post influenza staphylococcal pneumonia of the season today - very sick patient admitted to the ICU.
Every patient I have seen so far admitted with influenza this week is unvaccinated.
The vaccines keep you out of hospital!
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Our collaborative artwork is finished 🎉

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Venn diagram showing "dumbest times" and "darkest times." Where the circles overlap is labeled "you are here."

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly.

The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

Make no mistake. The anti-scientists in charge will launch many "safety scrutiny of approved vaccines against X", not because of any safety concern, not because the many past studies were not good. It is anti-sience ideology, all of it.

It will cost lives, missery, and preventable diseases return.

It's also the warmth - while historically such events may have seen more precipitation fall as snow at higher elevations, warmer temps mean more falls as rain and goes directly into streams and rivers, while also melting lower elevation snow.

Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.

Lem, the Pathfinder iconic halfling bard, offers a gift of sparkling clothes to Shimmerclaw the mirage dragon in the hopes of gaining their affection. In the bottom left corner of the image is the "Pathfinder" logo.

Golarion and the Pact Worlds are crawling with magnificent monsters! Check out today's blog and learn about the games the mightiest beasts are roaring about!

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No evidence Scottish child payment pushes parents to avoid work, study finds

There is no evidence the Scottish child payment meaningfully encourages parents to avoid work, a study has found

Pleased to announce the publication of talented postdoc Dr. Yeh's new paper "Ketogenesis is Dispensable for the Metabolic Adaptations to Caloric Restriction"!

The hills are hungry, the shadows whisper...

All Your Gods Are Dead is a chilling new supplement for Old Gods of Appalachia, filled with eerie entities, cursed relics, and the kinds of GM tools that turn a good horror game into a legendary one...

a very, very tiny and very cute orange frog

Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best

Just what I fucking expected.

a shrimposter

That would imply he cares enough to hate. He doesn't. He cares only about himself. He doesn't have the capacity to think about the US enough to hate it.

Students who file disingenuous grade appeals and grievances should be penalized for wasting everyone's time and, in this case, for trying to bully an instructor.

Noting you approve of teasing to enforce certain norms and then flipping the fuck out and crying discrimination when you are challenged in perhaps the most kind way possible is so much of their entire ethos in one distilled bit.

I only taught college for one more year after I transitioned, but this shit was my nightmare, and why I left the field. 100 she is trying to get the TA fired. And this is appallingly bad writing for a Junior. Most Freshmen write better than this after their basic COMP sequence.

This genuinely reads like a ten year old wrote it.

And speaking as a trans person who got their PhD at OU...the university is absolutely fucking spineless when it comes to protecting grad students generally and trans ones in particular

Even worse the instructor then. They don't even have actual protections of the job. They're just being sacrificed by the Uni to save the feelings of TPUSA folks.

Christ.

Grad student instructor, so was teaching the class but is not a professor.

gabe woolley, an oklahoma state rep, repeatedly misgenders the TA here and says the OU student that vaguely alluded to the bible in her essay "cited real science"

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Nah she’ll go straight to the right-wing speaker circuit. Look for her to be a regular guest on CNN in five years.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”