Shut off the computing power. That remains understandable.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 21h ago

OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.

Sometimes when a team is playing bad, the broadcast will break out the MISCUES graphic. This whole CFB weekend gets one

Time for an SB Nation Classic

Hello darkness my old friend.

Every now and again not only does scrolling the Insta feed find me talent, it finds me local talent. Pet That Yeti, from Kentucky.

Helluva Ride

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Food for thought for the neo-Luddite like me. I’m honestly struggling with the question.

Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · 2d ago

If a student who has considerable executive functioning challenges uploads syllabi and assignment descriptions and due dates to an LLM and asks it to generate a study plan, is that bad?

When I wonder what it is that Clemson does all offseason this is all I can picture

Yeah! It's still a scandal and tbh at best WMU is a victim of the overreach of replay in sports. But I think the possible parties at fault here are 1) NBC and 2) the Big Ten office, but not 3) the review center guys, who were looking at a clock that told them they were getting it right

Egg@patob.bsky.social · 3d ago

As someone who (begrudgingly) agrees that there is no grand conspiracy, its still crazy to me that someone on either side of this didn't realize how poorly the clocks were synced up before

Here's where I am on the WMU-Michigan thing after gathering info. It's still a huge mess, but a more interesting mess with more possible parties to blame than you previously thought

Thread re: exasperation about NFL players in college football.

Matt Brown@mattbrown.bsky.social · 4d ago

From folks *I* talk to, I get the idea that the industry rage re: NFL players in CFB is less about a violation of the sacred rites of amateurism and more a rage over not being able to set and enforce any set of rules. And who is the most notorious and unapologetic line stepper in CFB? Lane Kiffin!

um, Rutgers?

2026's full return of the ugly-spreadsheet Watch Grid

College football’s light Week 1 schedule will be fun anyway (Gift Article)

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Oooooooooooooo

New Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hexsweeper is out! Free! Addictive! Pretty! So many people here helped with testing and feedback on this that it should be co-credited. There’s an Easter egg 😈 Android and web in comments.

It's over, but there is a bunch of joy.

Robin Sevakis@jadedsketch.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

I want to try to get to Southern Gap this year. Consolidation is always sad because of the loss of a small school’s history, but there is excitement in Buchanan County too.

Cardinal News@cardinalnews.org · 6d ago

As 4 rural schools become 1, students embrace their new shared identity

As a college professor, I get to keep experiencing this feeling 3 times a week

It's Abby. Yep@itsabbyyep.bsky.social · last wk.

Me: Time to quiet my mind with meditation— My Mind: Remember in 7th grade when you made a joke so dorky nobody laughed so you said it again

Remembering a guy: Steve Bedrosian

Ennui-tery@jerkwheatery.bsky.social · 7d ago

Remembering a guy: Pete Incaviglia

When confirmed: glory, glory, hallelu.

Joseph Lowery@joeclowery.bsky.social · last wk.

👀 Sources: MLS is fully returning to the U.S. Open Cup. All 27 U.S.-based MLS teams will participate in a revamped version of the country's longest-running soccer competition 🏆 Reporting with @benwright.bsky.social for @backheeled.com ⤵️

Baked into this thread is something I think is worth pulling out: the fact that Donald Trump is singlehandedly destroying the international system that made giant multinationals possible. The corporate executives supporting him in this are impoverishing their own companies’ futures.

29,272 words #AmWriting@legalminimum.bsky.social · last wk.

Being one of the only people On Here who has ever made map decisions for a consumer product, I was intrigued when this old skeet of mine started doing numbers. It’s likely correct in today’s context but it’s also missing some important nuance, because it was about another situation. Here you go.

The person who was marketing chatGPT to colleges was the head of marketing for Coursera and if you're an academic that actually should tell you everything.

Globally no one has the infrastructure to take the level of gradstudents and professors the US did. So we are talking about a lost generation essentially. Even with a scenario where a new admin brings back funding levels, hires, regulation etc etc we are talking what… 2030 the earliest? 2032?

Right wing internet weirdos are all Cuck this and Cuck that. Brother, why don’t you try shutting the cuck up for a second and seek Jesus Christ?

Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America while simultaneously forcing AI misinfo slop tools on to their customers is a good example of the way that fascism operates as a kind of MLM of alternately exercising and sucking up to authoritarian power.

I got #quizbowl joy today reading for the online play of Kenji Shimizu's Our Side Event Mirror Could Be Your Life, 220 absolutely amazing rock music tossups Two weeks until we open the season in person with Tusculum Earlybird, and holy wow we're going to pack out the building

Patrick Matthews@matthewsp.bsky.social · last wk.

First #quizbowl tournament of the year for me, the middle school division of TQBA's Sturgeon Moon online tournament. You can follow the action here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Tonight, there is football 🔥 On cable televison 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Involving Idaho 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥔🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

Her website is crashing from donations. If that isn’t the most beautiful thing, I don’t know.

I'm listening to the first six minutes of @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social 4.1 to listen to @edsbs.bsky.social's pre-tribute. Because dadgummit.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com