“Big mood,” I say as the universe churns with ceaseless decay and rebirth
If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.
Mr. Scarenheit@mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 7d agoArrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
One time I was at an improv class and a woman flirted with me and I didn’t realize until later because I was so depressed I was at an improv class
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 7d agoJust saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
poems used to be like "Fall's big boot / stubs out flowers / as oaks catch fire" but now they're like "at the season theme park where i work as Fall Incarnate i chase down coworkers in flower costumes and beat them" and the first line is like "with a piece of foam / shaped like a French baguette"
A student sent me a very heartfelt message thanking me for my offer to talk and said she would come to office hours but I don’t remember offering to talk nor do I know what she wants to talk about
Sometimes I wonder what happened to some of the friends I made when I was a teen on Livejournal. Maybe they’re still there.
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say
The Apple store is truly a sign that God has seen us yet chooses to turn away
Our oncoming dystopia is going to be just going to be stupidity and evilness outdoing each other over and over. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court
The Arizona appeals court ruled that airing an AI message from the dead victim "crossed that line".
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I’m stuck at an Apple store listening to a guy explain Futurama to a bored woman, this is hell
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There’s a distinct pipeline between the freshmen who are insistently proud of what high school they went to and the absolute vacant being we call a frat boy
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w agoit’s not the key point but it’s worth saying that if you make a point of shedding the cultural associations there is actually nothing less cool than a frat boy. jumped up little pipsqueak wearing his fruity lil easter colors leaking piss beer out of every orifice. an embarrassment of a human being
Jesus Christ Cornell
Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 2w ago"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
Just remembered in high school that I was voted class clown but everyone told me they were being ironic
Is anyone here a rhetoric person? A publisher is looking for readers to review my manuscript.
Thanks to the awesome power of AI, I no longer know my home address
Can AI feel pain? Can a chatbot smile? Can my dishwasher fuck?
Science Magazine@science.org · 2w agoCan the new cutting-edge AI models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. The work, which has not been peer reviewed, has divided #AI researchers. https://scim.ag/4hHU6BA
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
I mean it was a tragedy, but I don’t know if the Big Bopper’s death meant the music died.
So of course I uploaded a PDF of one of my Globe articles and I guess if you don't pay, you get a pared down version with no video and audio but also we are in trouble if students actually use this tool to take a piece that's less than 1000 words and divide it into chapters.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago“ScrollEd has built an app that allows the user to turn any text file — including dry PDFs or text books — into a feed that feels a lot like Instagram Reels or TikTok. As you scroll, the content shows up as AI-generated video, audio, text, or even interactive quizzes.”
