Mark

@putrnrd.bsky.social

He/Him - tech stuff, social justice, mental health, chronic illness.

Hi. If someone tells you about their depression, anxiety, or even insomnia, try to avoid responding with obvious remedies that they have of course already tried. They’re suffering, not stupid. Also please avoid banal mental reframing efforts and quackery. Perhaps just listen kindly. Okay then.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

New excuse from a student being asking to submit handwritten work. He's on deployment and has no access to paper. Online education is broken.