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started actually studying how to draw heads properly and its only been two days but im already getting better at drawing from reference than before

what a beautiful bipartisan friendship 🙄

why is this how i find out cmu has a yearbook?

sent fetterman an email ONE time because his voicemail wasnt on or was full or something and now i just get "fetter letters" to my inbox 🤢

i seasoned all my cast iron yesterday and despite having the windows open i think my apartment still smells like it 😔

oh my god a high of 73 tomorrow? in early march? this summer is gonna be horrendous

guess im spending some time calling upmc again today 🙃 all this for a visit over a year ago

so i just got a text notification from upmc telling me that i have a new statement for

you guessed it

the same $425 they said they'd work out with my insurance company in october :)

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

the holes arent even in a spot that makes any sense 😩

Real talk: CALL your Senators and state Senators and Representatives and the Governor.

A petition will do zero to stop this. Calling your elected officials will.

While the environmental impacts would be awful, it's worth emphasizing the significant economic impacts to the region.

Texas' Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and Democrats Locals say the rugged land is enough of a barrier and they're concerned about the impact on the environment and homeowners as the Department of Homeland Security forges ahead.

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

how the hell did i wear holes into my bedsheets??

no focus day, after a series of no focus days this week

hate when theyre right about this

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

Great info and resources in Pittsburgh.

staynebby.com

a brand new pilot vanishing point fountain pen inside a box. the box has a clear top so you can see the pen inside

the same pen, now out on top of my journal, with today's date at the top. only one other line is written on the page, which says, "My Vanishing Point came in!"

YALL SHES FINALLY HERE IM SO HYPED AAAAAAAAAAA

ive been going climbing regularly again since december and also have gotten back into making art in the last week or two and yesterday i finished a fully colored illustration for the first time in several years

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in case these help

They should invent a moon you can see through the clouds, a lot of people would be into that

spent the day paranoid about accidentally rubbing ink all over my face like the matchmaker in mulan

refilled one of my fountain pens today and the ink bottle had some crusty bits around the rim which promptly got all over my desk and despite my best efforts i spent the next three hours repeatedly having to wash my hands after finding new large smudge from brushing my palm against missed ink dust

what an exciting time to be alive

wish i had gotten this course at some point because my method now is definitely Not Efficient and definitely does not cause me to procrastinate due to overwhelm or anything

yo what the fuck??

christ one of those kids went to my high school

i miss halal bros dude i need to know their rice recipe 😩