It is far too easy for those in a position of privilege to judge the actions of others through the lens of that privilege, supporting laws and rules the protect it while vilifying those who don't have it. Honor is not to blindly follow rules, but to see them for what they are, and who they benefit.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - 14th Dalai Lama
thread. men outsource their thinking to women. AI gives them the same thing without having to interact with others.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d agoI like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.
Ophie Dokie 🌻@ophiedokie.bsky.social · 5d agoSo, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors
clear, easy to understand, straightforward instructions. I'd expect no less from a librarian. Thank you @librarian.bsky.social .
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Patti Smith's little "Hi" is so natural. ❤️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agofootage of Patti Smith meeting Pope Leo is a nice palate cleanser this Friday morning
I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.
"Japan is just tightening its lax immigration policies!" Japan's foreign resident population is only 3.4% of its total population and the lowest of any G7 nation already, what lax immigration policies lol
So the lesson of the Iran War is that technological superiority and military supremacy doesn't necessarily translate into true military success? Sorry, kids, but that's been the lesson of 80% of military conflicts since 1945.
If anyone's belonging is conditional and can be revoked because of WHO THEY ARE, then EVERYONE'S belonging is conditional. The excuses and "reasons" do not hold.
“Know yourself” is the greatest strength.
Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · last wk.Humility is confidence. Conceding a point in debate, or acknowledging that an assumption might have been wrong, or admitting ignorance on a given topic, or offering to learn more and rethink a position, are not signs of weakness but of strength and security. The blowhards always miss this.
Humility is confidence. Conceding a point in debate, or acknowledging that an assumption might have been wrong, or admitting ignorance on a given topic, or offering to learn more and rethink a position, are not signs of weakness but of strength and security. The blowhards always miss this.
Wisdom. Remember when we were taught “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all “?
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last wk.if someone is cooking something and they seem excited about it and you think it's unhealthy ... the place to stick that opinion is up your own ass, follow it with your head, and shut the fuck up.
Spencer’s take is an excellent read. Very well written.
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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Knowledge is fragile. It's important to learn what you can but it's also really important to make sure to tell somebody else.
It is striking how Republicans are more interested in cultural issues than economic issues. They’d rather go broke than allow transgenders to exist, or God forbid participate in sports of the opposite sex. They also love conspiracy theories of any sort. Pathetic.
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.
Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan. The US has the largest morbidity gap. Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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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In violent reaction to the reconfiguration of society into treating women and people of color as equals. It is a desperate, ferocious clinging to what they feel should be a higher status in a 'natural' hierarchy. Because the alternative is the terrifying prospect of being judged by what they do.
The thing about the Tates is they aren't just sexual predators and pedophiles; it is that they have created a whole generation of mini-me sexual predators and pedophiles.
