Jeremy Secaur

I never, ever want to hear about “flyover country” or “what’s in Minnesota?” ever again. That is NPC behavior to me.

This is my fucking state. And this isn’t even the folks who are still watching out from their neighbors, from home.

I respect you well, therefore you are well respected.

I know this feels minor now but trinket.io is going away. Act accordingly if you have a bunch of stuff there (@rhettallain.bsky.social)

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Hot take: if Carlos Beltrán belongs in the HOF, so does Barry Bonds.

Both were unrepentant cheaters who had already piled up HOF credentials before they became unrepentant cheaters, Bonds more so.

Snow day for me also. Call came last night around 8pm, so I was able to turn off the alarm

If you're into fantasy TTRPGs, this is my current favorite at a great price

Same! And I saw him on his SoH live tour last year (I don't recall if he had any tour dates on your side of the Atlantic for sure, maybe a few?)

I have Lawetlat'la and Olympus Mons. Which did you order?

It's interesting to hear what they think a volcano should sound like. Mostly it's explosion sounds, which is still fun to hear

I have 2 of these in my classroom and I highly encourage you to do the same so you too can demand that students make "volcano sounds" every time they take a tissue

But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that.

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Some context for the linked post:
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Just realized that @barrysoh.bsky.social is on here and you should follow if you like a blend of good sandwiches and watching other people eat an occasional trainwreck

Two waffles sit on a round, white plate. The waffles are brown with flecks of green.

Took a cue from Barry at Sandwiches of History and mixed an egg into leftover stuffing to make some waffles for breakfast. Highly recommend.

The mission to make all of us distrust any health science we come across is thriving

Except that I Accuse My Parents is fun to watch

I don't see the problem, but maybe that's because my Factor Fexcectorn is off the charts

The Kickstarter to fund The Making of The Final Sacrifice is live now! Support now and find out if there's beer on the sun.

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Channeling my inner Adam Richman

My experience: being a parent makes me a better teacher and being a teacher makes me a better parent.

Also my experience: being a teacher makes me a better RPG game master and being a game master makes me a better teacher.

Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

It also hurts a little to wonder what the rest of their day is like, since this quote clearly implies that they take classes where one doesn't need to know what they're doing, or in my case classes where they don't have to think

Overhead at the end of one of my classes today: "this class makes me think, but like not in a bad way."

Counting that as a win.

Now that I know better, I choose to not repeat those antisemitic stories. When someone is kind enough to point out that we're getting the story wrong, it's worth hearing them out so we don't unintentionally further the spread of bigotry

Hi, I'm a Christian and I just want to ask you to take a minute to reflect here. We were raised not knowing that a bunch of church lessons were actually antisemitic stuff that has lingered in Christianity for centuries. Such as the historically inaccurate framing of money lenders...

Surely this time Lucy won't pull the football away

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But what does it say about this whole system when we can just click some buttons to create a fictional recommendation as an actual means of determining who is accepted to colleges? Nothing good will come of this.