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Elizabeth Hargrave

@elizhargrave.bsky.social

Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚‍♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚). https://www.elizhargrave.com/

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 2w ago

The sheer contempt I have for these dipshits and their insistence we should join them in their willfull and gleeful ignorance is beyond articulation

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thrift store as a third place: I wish Value Village still had dressing rooms, but it's kind of lovely to chit chat with women of all ages, races, and classes who come in a tank top and leggings and share the aisle mirror. We all need the occasional "Honey, that brown doesn't work on you."

Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was ambushed into debating AI yesterday on a game design podcast (out soon) and I wish I could have better channelled Cory Doctorow in the moment. He talks here about AI lacking surprise, I talked about heart. (There's some overlap there, probably, which is interesting to think about...)

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w ago

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up. Image: Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · 4w ago

Layer upon layer of ugh. Treat artists like a precious resource. Ask permission and then once you have permission, credit them and jfc, don't run their creations through the plagiarism machine. Better yet, learn a skill. Make an art. It may not be beautiful but it will be *yours.*

Semi Co-op@semicoop.com · 4w ago

We've had someone remaking our comics in AI, not mention us at all, and when we asked about them about it we got "we wanted to translate your comics but I only know how to use AI" as an answer...

Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · last mo.

30+ yrs ago I dated an Italian and my most enduring memento is this Peperonata recipe, which I learned from Aunt Cristina in Italy. I still make it every summer: Chop equal parts peppers, onions, & tomatoes in big pieces. Lots of olive oil. Some garlic. Cook on LOW heat for 2 hrs. Salt to taste. 🥂

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