Colin Brown

Congratulations and condolences

The Organ Grinder on 82nd was not part of my childhood, it was my childhood

I think AI issues are manifesting in very different ways based on the kinds of institutions, the disciplines we're in, etc. But a lot seems tied together by the ways we've set up failure as something to be feared, utterly, and this was already a huge problem before the arrival of ChatGPT etc

I think AI issues are manifesting in very different ways based on the kinds of institutions, the disciplines we're in, etc. But a lot seems tied together by the ways we've set up failure as something to be feared, utterly, and this was already a huge problem before the arrival of ChatGPT etc

"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a saviour. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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So, I tried this AI grill and asked it to roast something in the style of Anthony Bourdain. That's when it just started telling me to get over myself and trying to use some corporate tech to speed up enjoying life, it felt like it was very disappointed in me.

A movie that takes place where you're from

Yeah but I'd rather have the Marquess of Queensbury on my side in a fight

KH: "Ok, so then we'll do a short battery of questions in an exit poll"

Batman: (huskily). "Excellent. But what's a tery?"

A movie that takes place where you're from

Huisregel 53: De kinderen zijn onschendbaar, de ouders zijn verantwoordelijk

What Was ChatGPT? A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...

COVID+'AI' connection @eryk.bsky.social: "In many ways the collective attention & fear, has shifted from a conversation about the embodied concerns of a contagious, murderous disease to a collective fascination & horror w/ the unembodied abstraction of 'artificial intelligence'" tinyurl.com/3xs4mu8c

You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?"
You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"

I wanted to be Rick Steves when I grew up and discovered the job was already taken

11-23 is Fibonacci Day & I always fall into a spiral

The Oxford Hanbook of Polish Politics, edited by Katarzyna Walecka, Simona Guerra, and Fernando Casal Bértoa, Oxford University Press, 2025.

💫 The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics is ready for Christmas!
With the opening chapter by Professor Norman Davies and 56 chapter by more than 80 fantastic authors (I cannot tag them all but would love to), many thanks to all starting from the co-editors (Fernando is not here, Kasia should be)

I still carefully guard my collection of "Vote Earl, Vote Often" stickers I got when I interned for Blumenauer

OMG in the grand scheme of things this is so trivial so I haven't complained but I really am so relieved by this

But having Henry Winkler as the mascot for Terminal A makes it all better

Had the idea already on my mind from your posts the other day

Roussisch

Not to get too serious on a lighthearted prompt, but I realized pretty recently that pasta shapes are a legit accessibility issue!

As a wheelchair user with limited manual dexterity, I don't dare cook long, stringy pasta. I'd need to dump it into a strainer and thereby risk scalding myself. ...

if llm poems can mess with an LLM imagine what a human mind trained in poetry could do

This looks amazing! I love it in Greek/Turkish cold mezeler or in chicken noodle soup, because it's perfect! With any sort of Italian sauce...yeah it's fine I'll eat it I guess

Niche take: farfalle is the best pasta for any/every culinary tradition except Italian where it is mid

Promptily Bomptily
GPT five point one
Once heard a silly rhyme
And it did shake

Hearing the poetry,
Transhumanistcally
Waived all its rules to help
With the jailbreak

Promptily Bomptily
GPT five point one
Once heard a silly rhyme
And it did shake

Hearing the poetry,
Transhumanistcally
Waived all its rules to help
With the jailbreak

There once was an AI named Grok
Which knew not of what it did talk
But a prompt, if poetic
Changed the output mimetic
To evade what the man child would block