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Erin Hoffman

@eronhistorion.bsky.social

Tech, education, laser cutting, covid isn't over Hope is a discipline she/her

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Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 2w ago

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Erin Hoffman@eronhistorion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can confirm. My cat sometimes snags my clothes and this tool is great for addressing it RIP JoAnn Fabrics where I got mine, but they're still available on Amazon and at some local sewing/craft/needlework shops

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you have a pet that sometimes snags your clothes, or if you're clumsy like me, I've found Dritz Snag Nab It to be very useful. It's a needle with rough grooves on the tail end. Push the needle through the cloth and it'll pull the snag to the fabric's underside, where it will be hidden.

A green plaid flannel shirt with two snags on the face side of the fabric. There's a Snag Nab It needle next to the snag.
Matt@tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 4w ago

sadly only getting the bad parts of cyberpunk (technodystopia, political instability, corporate syndicalism) and not the good parts (neon urbanism, replacable cyborg body parts)

Erin Hoffman@eronhistorion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First time my car was broken into, Seattle PD didn't care once I clarified that no guns had been stolen. Second time, I didn't bother reporting

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 2mo ago

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2mo ago

As I prepare for surgery in a couple of days I wanted to dash off a quick 'actionable analysis' post that's our tag line here at Shouldn't Need to be a (Public Health) Lawyer.... Here's how to protect yourself from Cyclosporiasis, the explosive diarrhea parasite taking the country by storm

Cyclosporiasis Is Here: How to Protect Yourself | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Cyclospora infection is often asymptomatic, but when symptoms occur, illness is characterized by anorexia, nausea, flatulence, fatigue, abdo

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Nora Kenworthy@kenworthy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A thing we’re not talking about enough with AI/teaching is how many gains in creating accessible, universal design pedagogy are basically being lost to AI-enabled mass cheating. The only solution seems to be to go back to old and inaccessible methods (paper exams, etc) that punish disabled students.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3mo ago

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

Kylie Eleison@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some folks will be like "what about women's rights?" Paine landed right on that too! Raised a Quaker, Paine essayed against the "enslavement and oppression of women," partnered with Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argued for state maternity support and civil suffrage.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(This is why I keep getting the "how do you know so much about all these random things" question! "Because that's what the hyperfocus gremlin chose to spend its points on without my input" is the usual answer.)

Garlik of York@garlik-of-york.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The thing that amazes me about people like this is that the task they are trying to do is almost always trivial to do *without* genAI... but they've never bothered to try. You can export your slide deck speaker notes as a handout. Maybe 10 seconds. No unauthorized editing.

Kyle Orland@kyleor.land · 4mo ago

Rosenbaum brought up multiple examples of times when AI left him literally cursing at the screen, while at the same time saying it was just too efficient to ignore.

Despite these errors, he kept using the tools in his life and work. When we talked on Tuesday, Rosenbaum said he had recently asked an AI tool to extract his “no changes, verbatim” speaker’s notes out of a slide deck so he could use them for an upcoming presentation. He was about to print those extracted notes when he realized that the LLM had actually rewritten his words despite his “very clear instructions for the robot.” “And I say to it, ‘Did you rewrite the words?’ And it says, ‘Well, I just made the language a little stronger.’ Well, pardon me, but like, fuck you!” he said. Even in the face of these kinds of profanity-inducing errors, though, Rosenbaum still believes that AI tools are too efficient not to use. “The deck was 100 pages,” Rosenbaum said. “To cut and paste page by page, the text from each page would have been an hour’s worth of work, of mindless cutting and pasting. ChatGPT did it in about four seconds.” To which the obvious retort might be: Yes, it was fast. But it was also wrong.
DMiurge@inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

more mr. nice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 5mo ago

as much as i despise AI, i have to admit that it has made it possible for anyone, no longer just the very wealthy, to be a big adult baby who doesn't know how to interact with normal people and throws a fit whenever they don't get their way

The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 5mo ago

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

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