Brad Proctor

Every part of this is an abomination

Major Briggs. Twin Peaks S02E09 - Arbitrary Law.

Twin Peaks: Major Briggs.

SETH

One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context

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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.

Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Have we considered the possibility that the "67" meme is caused by Data sending information out of the time loop in an attempt to stop America from crashing into the USS Bozeman?

The disconnect between Platner’s actual class background (upper-middle class) and the way he’s often spoken of (tribune of the working class) has long bugged me. John deftly unpacks that discrepancy here.

This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc being the only human character in a film of Muppets is, and I’m trying not to be dramatic here, the reason cinema was invented in the first place!

The main difference between their characters is that I would view Butthead as being morally culpable for his crimes in a way I wouldn’t for Beavis. Beavis I’m almost instantly arguing down to manslaughter, Butthead is full Murder One

I don't know who the "ew, she got childcare help from parents" attack is supposed to impress, but it definitely did not impress the voting parents of Seattle, so many of whom (us included) got some kind of assistance from parents so we didn't get priced out of the damn city.

underrated how the de facto prohibition on discussing the substance of policy among political reporters means they are primed to focus on culture war nonsense

I've been told I look like Linguine for over a decade. Tonight I reunited with Remy!

Monstrous is the only adjective that occurs to me right now

YouTube video by Todd Snider “Like a Force of Nature” - Todd Snider ft. Jason Isbell (Official Audio)

I have quite a few Todd Snider stories for some other time--it's an immense loss.

Probably my favorite of his most recent stuff:
youtu.be/X73bAZNwWlE?...

For fucking real.

"JERRY JEFF WALKER FOREVER" a celebration of life, Live with Todd Snider 12pm CT 10/24/2020. YouTube video by Todd Snider

Deeply saddened to hear that Todd Snider has died. I was hoping to see him on this tour, but it was not to be. What a monumental loss.

It's not often that people play their own funeral, but the perfect tribute to him might be his service for Jerry Jeff Walker:
www.youtube.com/live/JzuuI4E...

Exactly! If Democrats need to focus on affordability, just ... focus on affordability. Don't constantly give lectures about how other people with the exact same job as you need to do it differently.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

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Why is Copilot suddenly in my Microsoft Word despite trying to disable all AI as often as possible? I did not ask for the plagiarism machine that stole from me.

Dammit I make a post about grammar and I mess up an essential word in my first sentence. Ah well.

Look at how sexual violence is excused, naturalized, absolved. Look at how the abuser is framer as victim. Come see how the NY(f'in)T actively fosters rape culture!

Notable that the last clause, typically saved for the most important part, focuses on what this will do to Matt Gaetz. Positing him as the object of these events, rather than as a subject/agent/perpetrator--the weakest, least powerful of anyone in the narrative. You know--a victim.

The grammar here is fascinated. First, passive voice in the headline. Who left her up for exploitation? More importantly, who exploited her? Two, "ended up having sex" frames her exploitation as natural, inevitable, an act of time and nature rather than specific human beings. Finally...