Looking forward to getting the routine school communications on papyrus this year

ceej@ceej.online · 6d ago

really enjoyed the breadth of household language options in our school district’s new student information system. on þyssum hūse sprece wē Englisc 😤

Rockette Morton, the bassist on Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band's _Trout Mask Replica_ has run into some health and housing challenges. Folks are soliciting donations to help him. I never have enough money for everyone I want to help. www.gofundme.com/f/rockettemo...

Donate to Rockette Morton Trout Mask Replica Bassist Faces Hard Times, organized by Justine Turner

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So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

Getting someone to ask for a small math lesson while caregiving 😎

By their very natures, writing centers undermine top-down institutional hierarchies, empowering students to take command of their ideas and have faith in their skills. Great programs to target if all you care about is unquestioning obedience.

Some metaphors take care of themselves: the young hospital aide wearing the "Jesus heals" sweatshirt (in live laugh love script) did the worst job of anyone all day because she seemed to be more interested in performing care than actually listening to the patient

OTOH I knew someone whose car was stolen and the cops actually found the guy but declined to arrest or charge him because "he's not really a car thief"

brian j.@talkwordy.bsky.social · 4d ago

i got mugged at shotgun point. the cops arrested the wrong guy, hustled me out of court at the hearing when i said ”that’s not the guy,” told me “you didn’t see him,” made me do a lineup at the prison and when i said “that’s the guy i saw in court, still not him” told me “it’s OK, he’s a bad person”

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Cops have desensitized us to this, perhaps

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d ago

It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it

I feel like we need a paradigm shift where each of us is a neighbor to one another, and acts like it and hold each other accountable when this isn't happening.

one of the Sisyphean goals of my life is trying to convince somebody, anybody, to make a serious attempt to roughly quantify whether police in the US cause more deaths than they prevent

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ah well what's the torturous needless preventable deaths of thousands of people a year when a stolen car is now pancaked into a tree

Is the nighttime driving social contract now such that I can just have my high beams on all the time? It feels like every vehicle on the road these days has two lighthouse lamps aimed right at your eyes

if you are bigoted against trans folks you will not stop there and I know it you are either already racist, sexist, or homophobic or you are on your way there and I will not join you for your journey

Hi all. I’m back again regarding Quelvin’s court costs. He has two court dates next week and needs to make some payments on his tickets in O’Fallon. Currently he owes $1748 to O’Fallon and we just want to make some kind of good faith partial payment before his review hearing on Monday.

Rachel Bean, still sick but less@colocharachel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi all. I’m coming to y’all with a personal need. If you’ve been connected to me since Twitter, you may remember that I have a young man/mentee in my life from our time in St. Louis. He owes some court fees for some ongoing racist St. Charles County shit and I want to help him pay them.

Hey y'all, Rachel needs some help for a family member of hers who is currently trapped in a bad cycle of racist traffic ticket citations fucking up his life. Can we help her help him get his license and life back? v: colocha_rachel $: ColochaRachel DM Rachel for zelle/paypal

Rachel Bean, still sick but less@colocharachel.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hi all. I’m back again regarding Quelvin’s court costs. He has two court dates next week and needs to make some payments on his tickets in O’Fallon. Currently he owes $1748 to O’Fallon and we just want to make some kind of good faith partial payment before his review hearing on Monday.

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Today in Stark Graphs This administration is going to be just like the trick of highlighting the Reagan years on all the graphs that take a turn exactly then.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Living in community is hard, y’all. The last 8 months have been a hard decade and I think we all need to tread lighter around each other. That said; Her is a corporate sex pest with no ideas that someone didn’t pay for, and she should resign or get removed immediately. Saint Paul deserves better!

Speaking as someone a little jaded from growing up in NY politics: I think there’s a very real anger and need for catharsis that boils up when an elected shows contempt for their community and its most vulnerable. And they deserve mockery. Our mockery can’t come at the expense of survivors though.

just saw Rhiannon Giddens say that the current cultural/political moment "feels like a war on things that are real" and wow this is so accurate and concise.

Meek stuttering Merrick Garland shouts “I’m gonna k-k-k kill you—again!” and runs over McConnell’s decaying corpse with a steamroller.

little john@littlejohn.bsky.social · last wk.

😂😂😂 Trying to decide what doing a Fish Called Wanda would mean.....

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

It bears repeating: we are $30mil in the hole and the MPD is $24mil+ over budget on overtime and BY THEIR OWN ADMISSION it was to sit on their fucking asses and do. jack. fucking. shit. You don’t get to claim you’re understaffed when you DON’T FUCKING DO ANYTHING!

somebody please adopt this 2 headed dragon plush!! they were in the art show at the state fair in '24 🐉 ko-fi.com/s/dd75b40e90 they're just sitting here waiting to get adopted and being really sad about it #bsnm #shop #handmade #plush

Large 2 Headed Green and Blue Dragon Plushie - KFL Studios's Ko-fi Shop

This is a large 2 headed water dragon plushie, as seen at the Minnesota State Fair in '24! Each head has it's own uniqueness, as one has their tongue ...

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12yo's pool reading @bozodeluxe.bsky.social

@naddington.bsky.social @ptwiddle.bsky.social Omg the advisor of one of the Fields medalists was Ionescu

MPHA staff told me these two projects would've happened sooner if not for the freedom fighters (my words) who spent 7 years suing to overturn the 2040 plan.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · last wk.

Mayor Frey, Council Member Whiting, and Minneapolis Public Housing Authority executive director Abdi Warsame announcing new multi-family public housing on the site of formerly single family homes. Pictured is a new triplex at 56th and Blaisdell. Two 4-bed and one 2-bed.