Larry (he/him)

So blessed to have not one, not two, but THREE people I can text this reel to with only the caption "jinothorax"

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Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!

The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
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I'm opening my next digital exhibit next week 📚! As part of this exhibit, I'm encouraging people to write letters in response to the collection (or just because it's nice to write a letter). You can do that here: kfl-exhibits.github.io/letters-shee...

At the point in this project where my commit notes are getting increasingly frantic and confused. God help me I will get this image to embed in Collection Builder, but there are going to be soooooo many question marks in the notes.

And then tax billionaires appropriately

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.

Lysistrata is the fastest pathway out of fascism

Been saying "uh oh" a worrying amount lately

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

"When I asked ChatGPT to comment on its chief rival, it noted that Claude is “good at ‘helpful & kind without becoming therapy.’ ... Claude was, it italicized, “less mad-scientist, more civil-servant engineer.”"

Yeah, well I asked the Lady of the Lake about DeepSeek; she said it was a Commie trap.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

Literally all three of the current co-directors texted our group chat to say that 🤣

Screenshot of an email subject line reading "[Faculty and Staff] Trebuchet Available — Looking for a New Home by End of February"

Sometimes it is good working in higher ed 📚

The 60-something retirees in Minneapolis patrolling the streets with whistles have more guts and more commitment to push back against government tyranny than he'll ever have.

I really should cook sweet potatoes more often, my kitchen smells AMAZING rn

There's 1 faculty member I work with who absolutely refuses to think of me as an expert in my field and I'm fully going to scream. I won a grant (kind of) to do some digital preservation and her response was fully "oh so for this other person's work?" MINE TOO. I ALSO DO PRESERVATION??? Screaming. 📚

(watching Full Metal Jacket) There's literally a peace sign on this guy's helmet despite him being a soldier, are the costume designers fucking stupid

Looking at my calendar for the week and said, out loud, "that can't be right" about my lack of meetings or classes to teach on Wednesday and Thursday. That can't be right! Something heinous is going to get dropped on my plate I know it.

Did you know doing something like historical advising for Bad Bunny is not necessarily the kind of thing that counts for tenure at American research universities?

Did you know we’ve been doing our part to change that at the Office of Public Scholarship at WashU?

Did you know we’re hiring?

If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound.

A short 🧵>>

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

Everybody: That show was beautiful.

Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

it’s a very strange feeling for all of the ads to be targeted at my demo while offering literally nothing I’m interested in buying

I'm not kidding when I say this should be illegal, even if it weren't also a transparent scam on this idiot's part.