Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname

Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️.

But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

I actually love thinking and creating and dreaming and doing, and I value the labor in these things. I'm not gonna outsource those things to an llm! I like my job!!! this is the labor I've dreamed of!!

She now has a cushier, less visible job with better perks and more opportunity to scam taxpayers, no?

NEW

Britain used as much coal last year as it did in 1600, driving down greenhouse gas emissions by 2.4%

Story on @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org analysis of UK govt data

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www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

And why are people celebrating

Like how is this bad for her

Walt please someone explain why we're calling it fired, not transferred, and why we're thinking this won't make things worse?? Why are we celebrating?

😂

Everyone in my family has much more interesting lives. But those are their stories, not mine. Even this one isn't really about me, you know?

And the more incredible stories about me are very believable and don't sound fake to me. Like getting hit in the face with a canoe.

Incredibly niche, but I was standing next to Bill Labov when the hotel concierge told him his room was on the fourth floor.

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

There have been so many damned declarations on ethical AI, go find one not co-signed by fascists, folks. Here's a hint: are they instigated and led by women, POC, domain experts from the global south? These are indicators of a declaration to consider. Next: read them.

I was in a church hearing on this and someone said “Well, what do actual South Africans say?” Helpfully, we had one on a Zoom call, and he chimed right in. “Oh, we do not call it apartheid.” “Ah, see?” South African Anglican: “Because what the Palestinians live with is much worse.” Mic drop.

THEY DON'T HAVE DEPTH PERCEPTION.

Processors, dammit

Hey one of my gpas was WW2 and a sign painter! (But between those, teacher and then high school principal in Newark)

The other was an engineer who led and oversaw construction of a few pretty amazing things, after fleeing postwar Europe

This is the best response I've seen yet. Computers (and word processes) are a very different sort of tool from AI, it's true, but yes actually we constantly are debating the pedagogical merits of having them in various learning environments. We don't actually have good tech policies!

Thisssssssss! 🧵

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

(This is a joke. Holy shit though I'm cackling. A little insulted, but lmaooooo.)

To be fair (see thread for context), it's a well-known fact that it's very difficult to find any Jews in New Jersey.

Sorry, I just fell into a tiny well of despair and am struggling to pull myself out. We live in the stupidest timeline, which makes nuclear armageddon feel impending. There's so much to be hopeful about! But like, come on.

my best understanding is that A “cure for cancer” is impossible because our everyday concept of “cancer” is vast constellation of diseases with multiple causes and treatments, and the fact this is the “what if, then what” being put forward indicates how unserious the conversation is

OP, your ignorance of the larger field isn’t an excuse for misusing tools in ways that can materially harm others, solely because you don’t feel like writing the papers you publish.

I would like to express to you how deeply pathetic I find this kind of behavior, but also I hope you learn from this.

Man, I really want to live to old age and believe my children will too. And my neighbors, and their children. I don't want nuclear armageddon wars. I want no wars, and especially not this bs Christian accelerationism death cult shit. I just want to opt out please.

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Now there's your $1m pitch!

You don't cure love.

My friend's husband died unexpectedly last year and he said something that struck me. I wished I could ease his pain and he said, basically, "no thank you, that pain is *mine* and i want it as a memento of our love".

Not even something as abstract as being human. That grief is the mark of love.