Daniel Collette

Post a banger that’s not in English

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The latest right wing social media take is that TPUSA’s Kid Rock’s performance was bad, but on purpose: an artistic choice to show his salvation from the world of his song’s lyrics.

AcademicSky:

Does your department have an AI policy or formal AI guidance? If so, would you mind sharing a link?

We are putting something together and it’d be great to get a feel for what others are doing.

If you feel inclined to repost this, please do!

Will you be posting your policy positions soon? I live in FL-13 and am all in for removing Luna. But being anti-MAGA isn’t enough. Democratic leaders have shown little moral courage to stand for the constitution. Where are you on abolishing ice, healthcare, funding for Israel, taking PAC money, etc?

I was today years old when I found out that Debbie Gibson recorded a song with the punk band Circle Jerks and my brain just doesn’t know what to do with this information.

I doubt Hillsborough would want to pay for this (nor am I sure they should), but a brief connector off 275 to plop you by the stadium would go a long way. Milwaukee has something along these lines and it makes going to Brewers games so easy.

I know the Bucs’ Raymond James stadium is down the road, but football is a different story imo. Rays attendance is low already, and I don’t think horrible traffic will help anything. For the sake of them staying in Tampa Bay I’d love to be wrong if they do build there. But I won’t go to many games.

As much as I really did love the new St Pete plan that Sternberg trashed, the old Ybor and Pinellas Gandy locations would have been centrally located and really accessible.

I’m largely just cranky about how awful Dale Mabry is.

People don’t really live around that area of Dale Mabry, either. There are strip clubs and chain businesses. I don’t love the Trop, but it’s a vibrant walkable area with mixed use residential spaces right off of I-175 and 275.

I taught classes at that HCC for a few years and hated the location. Have you ever dealt with traffic on Dale Mabry on just like… a Thursday afternoon? It sucks so badly. I only went to one Steinbrenner game because of that. It’s like Miami’s loanDepot park… getting in/out is hell… people don’t go.

If anyone knows Tampa, the Rays have picked quite possibly the worst possible location in all of Tampa and St Pete for their latest attempt at a new ballpark.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Next week, the author posts:

Reviewer #2 is angry and gives an unsettling amount of food-related examples in her criticisms.

*youth pastor voice*

You know who else is in your Signal chat?

We often settle for crumbs because that’s what we’re given instead of asking how much is our labor really worth and demanding that we get what’s rightfully ours.

Congratulations to UAW and the workers at VW Chattanooga for this victory!

Several years I wrote a paper about how I successfully incorporated virtual reality into classroom instruction, exceeding learning outcomes. For some reason, this has translated into every shady and predatory journal asking me to submit papers about AI, go to conferences about AI, etc.

Also, the mass extermination of people held in concentration camps, the “final solution”, didn’t start until 1941. While in a sense it was always headed there, concentration camps didn’t become death camps overnight.

Thinking about Hobbes. When rulers harm their people, they forfeit authority by breaking the social contract.

“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For … no man can transfer or lay down his right to save himself from death, wounds, and imprisonment…” - Leviathan I.14

A bottle of windshield de-fluid

A bottle of windshield de-fluid

De-Icer manufacturers are missing out on a huge merch opportunity.

A woodwind instrument store called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Reeds.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

In 15 years a similar speech is given by the new system president, educated with AI. His head is head turned like a lost puppy, staring with dead eyes into a teleprompter, reading a speech written by ChatGPT. It confidently says Milwaukee was founded by subterrainian humanoid reptilians.

White House Aide Fired After Telling JD Vance About Super Bowl Party WASHINGTON—Insisting the terminated worker had violated the terms of her employment by leaking highly sensitive information, the White House announced Monday that longtime aide Sandra Wilton had been ...

“It’s difficult to imagine how this employee believed it was acceptable to reveal details of the West Wing Super Bowl party to Vance despite being sworn to secrecy,” said a source within the White House

Thanks!

People talk about how doing the right thing can be hard and might be unpopular, but I feel like one thing people don't say is that sometimes it will make you feel like you're in trouble. Like in the visceral elementary school sense.

(Of course I’m doing my own research, too, but thought this could be a way to get some info that I might miss otherwise.)

AcademicSky:

Does your department have an AI policy or formal AI guidance? If so, would you mind sharing a link?

We are putting something together and it’d be great to get a feel for what others are doing.

If you feel inclined to repost this, please do!

Pope Leo’s Message on AI from last Saturday. Worth the read!

Spoiler: AI hasn’t been all that good for humans and has potential to do even worse harm.

We are serious about getting this on TV, but that also costs money.

If you want to see this on TV (maybe Fox News??), chip in any small dollar amount here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...

I apparently am on a list called “Techno-pessimists,” which seems like a list for tech-bros to avoid posters who don’t like bitcoin and AI. #blessed