Kevin

I don't know if that's actually true or not, but it felt like a funny thing to say

you'll never outwit a millennial when the topic is liminality

maybe I misremembered

the point is just to point out a general trend: academia *not* supporting research, and then appropriating the research it doesn't support as if it did

to be very reductive, I tend to think there are two male visual aesthetics, "square" and "rounded," and reactionary culture seems increasingly premised upon, despite mountains of empirical evidence to the contrary, the suffocatingly stupid fantasy that only the former is desirable and good

it's counterintuitive, but if you want to "reel big fish" you might need a smaller reel, which affords greater mechanical advantage

#reelfacts

If you want to be proud of your occupation, whatever it is, you will have to create a world where all human life matters

education and hierarchy are fundamentally incompatible

If you are richer than your students & most of them will stay poorer than you for the rest of their lives, you're not a teacher, you're a security guard

If you are poorer than your students & most of them will stay richer than you for the rest of their lives, you're not a teacher, you're a servant

Costco should teach people square dancing

band name

Of course, machine learning could have been used to *match* existing translations with their original text. That would have been the "best of both worlds." But, no, your lovely friend COPYRIGHT REGIME makes that impossible.

Copyright hurdles create a space that only slop can fill

[band name] As a Matter of Fact No! I Didn't Get Your Joke

[band name] As a Matter of Fact No! I Didn't Get Your Joke

No!
I didn't
get your
"joke"

maybe a "private LLM" is a contradiction in terms

the point is to understand society well enough in order to direct its development, which means understanding what "technology" and "efficiency" might even mean, what value theoretic constructs are being posited, and so on

Notice, also, that having public-facing machine-learning translations is presumably a lot less resource-intensive than having every individual reader creating their own & destroying the earth in the process

Again... it's all about the commons

How is technology itself necessarily a common good?

Practically speaking, this would make covering an obscure text on the podcast a lot more accessible to a lot of people! Sort of demonstrates the point that AI issues were never as simple as Bluesky orthodoxy would have it. There are genuine dilemmas. Sometimes there isn't a clear answer.

Of course, machine learning could have been used to *match* existing translations with their original text. That would have been the "best of both worlds." But, no, your lovely friend COPYRIGHT REGIME makes that impossible.

Copyright hurdles create a space that only slop can fill

Here's the thing. No one EVER wants to be go back to translations that don't give the original text side-by-side. That world was hell, and it's only due to this formal deficit that machine learning is at all useful.

ctext added machine learning translations to just about everything

mixed emotions!

Excerpt from Joining Brocaded Palindrome Story 合錦回文傳 (1798), just as described in the tweet 一日，行乞到一米店門首，那米店主人見他不像個乞兒，因對他說道：「看你老人家不像個行乞的，目今防禦使薛老爺招集流民開墾荒地，少壯的荷鋤負來，老弱的擔秧送飯，你何不到那裏尋碗飯喫，卻不強似行乞？前面現有薛老爺的告示掛著，你不曾見麼？」 合錦回文傳 -> 第八卷矢冰心桑氏羞郎　見蒼頭梁生解惑

Hey, we know you're a side character in a romance novel, but have you considered instead cultivating the wastelands 開墾荒地?

more generally, "professors of video gaming" probably shouldn't be adjudicating who is and is not professorial enough

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Wild thought for the timeline but if you don't like teaching and you're unwilling to give students what they deserve you shouldn't be a professor. If I didn't love teaching I absolutely would not in a million years be doing this job. 8:46 AM • Mar 2, 2026 @ Everybody can reply 1 repost 2 quotes 26 likes

This sounds normal unless you think about it for even a single second. Is performatively *liking your job* really a helpful or even relevant metric?

You are, as a human being, absolutely entailed not to like your students, your job, your salary, etc. etc.

This take is as toxic as it is illiterate

Gambling is so obviously loser behavior, I'm sorry

It's so embarrassing for our species that this is one of our problems

Excerpt from Joining Brocaded Palindrome Story 合錦回文傳 (1798), just as described in the tweet 一日，行乞到一米店門首，那米店主人見他不像個乞兒，因對他說道：「看你老人家不像個行乞的，目今防禦使薛老爺招集流民開墾荒地，少壯的荷鋤負來，老弱的擔秧送飯，你何不到那裏尋碗飯喫，卻不強似行乞？前面現有薛老爺的告示掛著，你不曾見麼？」 合錦回文傳 -> 第八卷矢冰心桑氏羞郎　見蒼頭梁生解惑

Hey, we know you're a side character in a romance novel, but have you considered instead cultivating the wastelands 開墾荒地?

prousting with the negative, one might say

does this scan

a lot of YA is functionally what could be dubbed transference without reflection

I saw it in a CVS, immediately bought it and brought it into my car after a really difficult shift at the kitchen I was working, i just sat there in my car, shattered just like the empty ball of disappointment in my lap. Even the small ones stopped tasting good after that.

might fuck around and tap the rim of a snare drum at a tempo suggestive of both the ticking of a clock as well as the beating of an anxious heart

whoops my bad

The butler [thinking to himself, scheming]: If I repeatedly mispronounce "ambitious," I bet he'll write me into his little book!