Julia Thomas

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

I was at an elementary school today. There were artworks on the wall, probably 2nd or 3rd graders'. Across the top of each page was: If I were president... All the kids wrote about how they would help people-the homeless, the hungry, etc. It was heartwarming to see that even these Littles get it

I sent an email asking a serious and specific question. I was treated to a vague and irrelevant answer obviously written using GenAI. If someone can't bother to write their own email, then they should just not answer at all. If I wanted ChatGPT's answer, I wouldn't have emailed you.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

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no charge? no thanks, I expect to be paid.

Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.

The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.

This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

I read something today that was labeled as written by AI. It was much less terrible than I've seen before. But here's the thing: with it being labeled as AI, it didn't bother me as much. Discovering after I read, OTOH, feels like betrayal. Use AI? Then label it as such.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"

Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%

Unsure: 19%

YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

Much better suggestions here than than let's use an AI detector. Ludicrous to me to think that software can tell the difference between AI, trained on human writing and supposed to produce human style writing, and real human writing. It often produces false positives. I'd prefer a prof decides

I find a lot to agree with here on Bluesky, but very little to say. It's a little intimidating. Most of you are so smart, and I'm just an ordinary person living a quiet life. But keep it up, guys. I'm with you!

How One Professor Deals with Student GPT-Generated Essays (electoral-vote.com) larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/h... via @CubanLarry

CURMUDGUCATION: AI Is For The Ignorant curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2025/01/ai-i...

I mean I could do a few, bc I don’t watch that many shows, but the ones I do, I watch obsessively and commit to memory…

But if I had to pick ONE…

I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs

The people telling us how good generative AI is for us are either people financially invested in generative AI or people interested in not paying writers, editors, artists, communications staff, designers, etc. Maybe we could go ahead and not listen to them.

Generative AI steals our work, steals our income, steals our resources, and ultimately, steals our future.

Black and white photo of George Orwell in a tie and jacket sitting in a large chair and looking to the right

“It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery.

[That is probably how] the literature of a totalitarian society would be produced…

Imagination — even consciousness — would be eliminated from the process of writing.”

George Orwell

#writing #writingcommunity #art #ai

It's related to that teleportation syndrome. Haha

Information - accurate info- is necessary for most things. But, to me, human connections are more important. I'm not going into most friendly convos looking for info I can find online. I'd just like to have a convo where I can wonder, speculate, imagine, without being told to Google it.