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it's not going to feel like a real democracy again until i can vote for party that at least gets this right

coders were having tremendous difficulty before. almost all software is very bad, especially big pieces of software with large teams. AI seems promising for addressing the "large teams" part.

however, if they have a cool scrub cap you can tell them that

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"We must admit that we are losing this battle. We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed. But Homo sapiens have not yet failed." --Greta Thunberg

Louder: All political movements in their present form have failed.

best Enlightenment Any% speedrun strats?

YouTube video by MisterMo Def Poetry - Amir Sulaiman - Danger

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The biggest news coming out of YouTube lately looks to have been a quiet change to its search engine: instead of "sorting" you now "prioritize" (popularity, not view count). i.e. removing one of the last remaining ways to search based on concrete metrics. You also can't search the past hour anymore.

you've been at it long enough, we thought you knew

plastic Jesus on the dashboard of my car

i don't care if it rains or freezes

Abednego

nobody said being cool was free

a constitutional convention could do us a lot of good maybe

this nation is a loose fish right now.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

my "abolish ice" t-shirt is garnering lots of appreciation at the airport today. got compliments from several TSA agents, among others.

look what they’re doing to my beautiful city. this is bovino’s massive armed convoy, rolling through the Wedge, one of the nicest, friendliest residential areas in Minneapolis, doing nothing but posturing, starting fights, and then deploying chemical weapons at a park many children play in

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I'm interested!

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

album cover of "something to write home about" by The Get Up Kids, which features a painting of two boxy metal robots with headphones on, leaning on each other

how far down you reckon they go?

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

prompt: a scientist in a lab coat peers through microscope to examine a brightly colored corn chip, which another scientist is holding in place carefully with tongs. a third scientist stands nearby with a pen and clipboard.

A screenshot of the wikipedia home oage that reads Did you know ... ... that Masoud El Amaratly, one of Iraq's most popular folk singers in the 1920s (recording featured), was a mustarjil? ... that a recent Kate Nash song rebranding TERFs as GERMs caused her to trend on X within hours of its release? ... that Blossom C. Brown attracted national attention for highlighting violence against Black trans women? ... that the dinosaur emojis have been used by transgender groups to represent themselves? ... that several journalists have attributed the suicide of Lia Smith to anti-transgender policies? ... that misinformation about violence by transgender people has been used to defend violence against them? ... that in 2023 Kate Nambiar advised the EastEnders team around HIV treatment options for a storyline? ... that some people identify with no gender? ... that the first transgender person to compete professionally in League of Legends was also the first woman to do so?

Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it. She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.” Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.” It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below: IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD? What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean: brb = bell rang bro rofl = rang out for lost (crew) bff = big freakin' freigher lol = Load of Ore on the Lake smh = shift minutes to hours glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter tbh = taconite be haulin' stfu = steer the freighter upwind tfw = that freakin' witch (of November) asl = a ship lost gg = Gitche Gumee idc = immoderate deadweight capacity btw = beneath the waves afk = a freighter kaput hbd = hauler's beacon down ily = iron load yonder jk = just [24] kilometers lmao = lost my abyssal ore nbd = north bound draft glhf = good lord, hold flooding omg = obliteratingly massive gales tmi = too much iron wtf = White Fish (Bay)

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position