maybe a more precise phrasing of the original point would be people can produce careless work or careful work but LLMs can only produce careless work, even if it is sometimes correct, because they are incapable of care
Amanda Vincent
@amandasvincent.bsky.social
French Studies professor, studying post-1968 cities, gardens, and landscape and posting about all kinds of stuff. Opinions my own. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823851/constructing-gardens-cultivating-the-city/
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2mo ago
website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf
If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
I won an award for my book and it apparently broke Bluesky: sah.org/programs/sah...
SAH Publication Awards - Society of Architectural Historians
Honoring the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogs.
sah.org
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
I'm pleased to announce that my article "The Garden in Movement as a Space and Practice of Care" has been published in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social. Thanks to @tim-waterman.co.uk and Zannah Matson! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YQ7GT...
The garden in movement as a space and practice of care
A garden developed by professors at a French secondary education institution, Lycée Agricole Jules-Rieffel, demonstrates how landscape maintenance can function as a caring practice. Designed in con...
tandfonline.com
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Not because Minnesotans are louder but because they are harder to exhaust.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 7mo agoI love this so much. I love this place. I love us. And they will never break us. Never.
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
mprnews.org
If your dopamine receptors light up like a Christmas tree when you watch this and you haven't yet seen the Canal+ series Ovni(s), well, now you know what to do.
John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 8mo ago
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
The fascist’s imperative is the aestheticization of politics but that doesn’t give the left the excuse to abnegate the aesthetic question altogether. Aesthetics is politics made tactile. There is no leftist project from Lenin to FDR without a vision of the world they wanted to build.
It does matter! You need to build a world before you can advocate for it! You have to ask what that world would look like and sometimes that means literally. What is your answer to nostalgia bait and slop? Why is only one side allowed to make images?
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Volume 50.4 of Contemporary French Civilization is available, including the 13th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award-winning essay, "The right to feel bad: ambivalence as resistance in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière (The Last One)," by Blase A. Provitola liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/cfc/50/4
Contents | Contemporary French Civilization 50, 4
Fatima Daas’s debut novel, La Petite Dernière (The Last One), has been both lauded and attacked for its autofictional representation of a Muslim lesbian growing up in Paris’s marginalized suburbs. Analyses of this work have focused on the protagonist ...
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
This is a really great discussion and a particularly interesting read alongside the French perspective in the "Paroles d'histoire" episode about Andor Season 2. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...
390. Andor, avec Jean-Christophe Piot – Paroles d'histoire
parolesdhistoire.fr
Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 8mo agoWherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social ! 🗃 journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
Possibly the most interesting angle on food deserts I've read yet: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
theatlantic.com
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? It'll be chaotic, chances of survival are low to very low.
Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · 9mo agoYou’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Good odds!
(alternate french history) damn these tree potatoes are amazing sweet
It's all fun and games until someone decides to check the archives, you know, the place where they specialize in saving stuff b/c it might be interesting to someone one day ... I have never broken a code thanks to an archive but I have found some entertainingly sick burns!
John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 10mo agoHoly guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...