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Tad Suiter

@retius.bsky.social

Comics, History, and Media Studies. Confused as to why so many people refuse to just be nice to one another.

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Tad Suiter@retius.bsky.social · 2h ago

Brand New Day is a fucking brilliant post-pandemic commentary. The nation became less communally focused right when it could have meant the most. And a lot of us are still reeling and lost... And looking for something better, even though we don't know whether we deserve it or not.

Rob Secundus@robertsecundus.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you are a teacher being forced to incorporate AI LLMs in your classroom, and if you're looking for some way to mitigate the damage, I have four recommendations for you, with some lesson plans and assignment ideas. Link in replies.

1. Don’t just “teach with AI.” Teach your students ABOUT AI. Students think of “AI” as a kind of supercomputer that knows everything but is mostly used to churn out annoying slop or kill their future careers. Many of them despise it, but negativity isn’t really an inoculant, because all the time people use tools they hate if those tools are necessarily or more convenient, in some way, than an alternative. Kids hate AI—and they also use it constantly. If you want to produce graduates that might choose to ever write or think for themselves, you can’t rely on their negativity, nor should you aim to simply instill greater antagonism in them toward the technology.2. Teach your students the alternatives as you go If you are required to teach students how to use AI as an information-gathering tool, introduce them to Google4 as well as other search engines like DuckDuckGo, or any private databases to which you have access. If your school has a JStor subscription or anything along those lines, get them comfortable with Boolean searches. Show them how to use a physical index in a textbook, and have them practice skimming a text for answers to questions. Don’t just frame these activities purely as alternatives to using LLMs, but as compliments. Explain that sometimes they’ll need to verify something a chatbot has said, and at others they’ll need to look for information that is not well-represented in a chatbot’s training set.3. Incorporate in-class writing wherever and whenever you can If your school is asking them to use AI, it is asking them to atrophy as writers and thinkers. In order to combat this, you desperately need to use whatever time you can to have them write without AI in the classroom. They are losing extremely precious time for developing the two most important skills one can have in an educated civilization. Make up for that time in class, even if that means condensing other parts of the curriculum.4. Teach your students what good writing looks like and teach them what AI slop looks like. A lot of your students are going to—falsely—determine that slop just “sounds better” than their own work. You’re going to need to show them what’s distinctive about AI slop and, further, what’s so bad about those distinctive qualities.
Tad Suiter@retius.bsky.social · 2d ago

The National Debt is at 40 Trillion, people are shorting the NASDAQ at numbers not seen since the wake of the Great Recession, gas is over four dollars a gallon. All because white people didn't like having a Black President.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Garrett Langley: We’re not Big Brother, we’re focused on protecting people. George Orwell: Okay but like

Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley remains adamant that it's just one big misunderstanding, arguing that "we're not Big Brother."

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.

"Our employees and communities have said loud and clear, they expect companies like Flock to have a stronger point of view as the expert. I resisted that because I didn't want to have that responsibility."

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m familiar w/recent example where leadership changed, made things objectively worse and replied: “this is how the world is now” to criticisms. The workers then met and agreed to leave the organization, form their own collective and gut the original abusive organization. Hollywood could do this…

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to pull the company out of California starting October 1. Paramount will stay if AG Rob Bonta agrees to settlement talks over the lawsuit seeking to block the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

Tad Suiter@retius.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also, why do people talk all the time about the homoerotic undertones between Bruce and Dick when the homoerotic romance of Bruce and Clark is right there?

Tad Suiter@retius.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've watched the old Justice League cartoon before, but never start to finish. i'm watching the first episode, and it's making me so happy—it basically begins with Superman IV! Superman is dismantling the nukes!