Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern

I should be able to see what my brain is doing, acknowledge it, and then have it quit doing that. Like hi, I see you, are you done? Thanks

Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition.

Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids.

This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.

walked into walls so many times this week I suspect they tore down berlin's as a preventative measure

très jolie

The wizard sleeps tranquilly. Above the tower, clouds gather.

hit my protein target for the day :)

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

I think he was actually ACTUALLY asleep lmao

you really gotta click for full screen to experience it

bringing this back because it makes me laugh

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

I FEEL INSANE

Management, unsatisfied with killing us slowly through poverty wages, would prefer if we just hurry it up and die of measles instead

Court of Appeal will Consider Arguments on CSU Effort to Eliminate Student Vaccination Requirements - California Faculty Association A California Court of Appeal will hear oral arguments on October 15 about CSU management’s effort to eliminate student vaccination

I'm sorry what the fuck is this???? www.calfac.org/court-of-app...

ooh a train cry I gotta add that to my bucket list of cry boxes lol

but yeah definitely in the air

(I'm fine! just chatting about heavy life stuff with a friend while tired got the waterworks going, I'm baby)

peripheral benefit of masking on public transit is no one can see how stupid you look silently gibbering or whatever

expanding locations called the cry box to include the bus lol

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Appendix 1: on gun analogies

Nobody ever asked me to teach gun safety in history class. The reasons are so obvious they don't need stating and have nothing to do with whether gun safety matters.

But I am being asked (not politely) to spend history class helping people to learn how to use Al.

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

Sudden thunder, and the bitter sea denies us its shrimp. Glassy cliffs.

haven't they suffered enough

must be legal in the uk tho or does buckingham palace get special rules lol

pretty sure it's legal here in california 😬

13 going on 130