Liz Wise

Wow. The guys who were my neighbors in faculty housing when I was in Peace Corps were obsessed with the first one. I haven’t thought about that franchise in years!

Sorry are you saying they made additional movies in the Expendables franchise and titled one of them to use a 4 instead of the letter A

Coining "Pulling a men's hockey" as a term for earning a lot of good will and just instantaneously scorching it

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

there are too many discourses right now put some back

I'm going to need people to update how they shit-talk people who want stuff done. "Oh, they're mad that they're only getting 30% of what they want" really rings different when the 70% of shit we're not getting is "someone to shut down the concentration camps."

IDK to what extent the claims this article makes are true - obviously I can look at test scores like anyone else with 2 brain cells to rub together, but causation is trickier to nail down - but my experience bears out that more tech in schools has mostly been about $ and marketing, not learning.

Before we went into pandemic-induced remote learning, I was not permitted to reserve school computer carts for my students b/c technology was “for general education students, not ESL.”

It was about restricting access until suddenly it was about buying into what non-educators were pushing.

To answer the question someone did not ask: yes I’d love to take public transit to work, but it takes 3x longer (90+ min) and involves 1.5 mile+ walks on both ends.

Please flag down your local teachers as we drive at no more than 3 mph down the ill-plowed streets of Boston in these trying times.

As a bonus to you (though I would argue, not to us), we are an extended day school. I can be your space saver from 8-4.

Unlike your trash cans, beach chairs, milk crates, etc., our vehicles cannot be swiftly removed by people who do not respect the institution of space savers.

Still thinking about whether I can organize a partnership between staff at my school and our neighbors. Wouldn’t it be great if we (/our cars) were your space saver?

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Fuck this and fuck the people whose trash idea this was. Peace Corps is far from a perfect organization, but I remain proud that I am an RPCV.

Or, you know, I was, until I got this fucking email and read this fucking press release.

You know who’s not going to sign up for this? AI evangelists. You know who else isn’t going to sign up for this? People who are inclined to sign up for the Peace Corps.

And they think people need fucking AI?!?

And comparatively speaking, much of Namibia (and particularly the part where I lived) has good infrastructure. And still: half a community without these basics.

The community I served during my first 2 years is 25 miles from the nearest paved road and 40 miles from the nearest town. About half the community didn’t have electricity or running water when I lived there.

I just got an email from the National Peace Corps Association (RPCV organization) that Peace Corps is launching an AI initiative, and I think I will launch myself into the sun.

I can't vote any harder Liz. I picked you in the 2020 primary. I'm on your side. But I kinda can't do anything and I'm hoping you guys can

Screenshot of what I see on the Region 1 poll.

It won’t let me DM you but here is a screenshot:

The poll for this one lists different movies?

THE SUN

GREENWIRE reprint of AP story: Shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep The sleeper shark was 1,608 feet deep where the water temperature was 34.29 degrees Fahrenheit. (Below is a picture of a shark looking irritated at having its picture taken)

Where does a shark have to go these days to get some goddamn peace and quiet

Voting “aye” on this one.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

I do not understand why deciding if you would vote for gavin newsom is a such a pressing question. like would you drink gutter water or eat a lightbulb. sir, that question has not arisen today.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

12/12

AI is the sputtering, belching engine of modern fascism. Do not use it, do not accept it.