Long hiatus, I’m (kind of) back. A fellow faculty member in my department surprised me with a 3D print of a press 🥹 #printsky #printmaking
Carley
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“print’s not dead!” my tombstone, probably. she/her. graphic design educator, letterpress printer 🖨️ & Luddite. vehemently opposed to generative AI/LLMs. all opinions are my own 💭
Here’s how to opt out. “Google seems to be opting you in to these features without your permission. Second, the company doesn't seem to have notified its users about this. As a Gmail user, I don't recall seeing any notifications about this change.”
Google's AI is now snooping on your emails - here's how to opt out
A new change quietly rolling out allows Google to access your private messages and attachments to train its AI models - likely without your knowledge. Opting out takes just moments.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.
Shelley Script fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27...
Shelley Script in use
Matthew Carter’s revival of the hand of the early eighteenth century English writing master George Shelley, first issued by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1972. “The musical terms Andante, Allegro and Volan...
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Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11mo agoNew sign outside the Oval Office..
It took long enough but we finally have the first ever WordArt president
Paul and Storm@paulandstorm.bsky.social · 11mo ago[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
“And we’ll have to do it all while the world melts, both cognitively and glacier-ly, knowing that AI is contributing to that melt.” The thing is that we don’t have to do it, though. www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
these two are about to absolutely body OpenAI
a robot in a red , white and blue suit is standing next to another robot in space .
ALT: a robot in a red , white and blue suit is standing next to another robot in space .
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The Verge@theverge.com · 11mo agoStudio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
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Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.
This came today; 1928 deco-era letter press pamphlet cover for an event that used to be held at the Univ. I work for. Verified with Univ. archives & a solid provenance. Will be framed & hung in my office. Came packaged in this dutch(?) language children’s book. Historic rainbow action for my office
Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets promoted to CEO
If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.
LLMs can’t do math, but they are doing math in order to not do math. And sometimes when doing math to do not math they create things that can do math. Got it?
“The depictions in the media and from clinicians suggest that people are mainly experiencing delusions, and for that reason, clinicians prefer ‘AI-mediated delusions’ rather than the snappier but less accurate ‘AI psychosis’ to describe the phenomenon.”
As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."
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This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
And!! Why is it that on Wednesday they were setting up for tailgates? There’s RV’s parked, canopies up, new flowers being planted today. The grip football has on our society will always amaze me. #academicchatter
I gotta talk to whoever planned the layout of this campus. Why is it the football stadium is always next to/close to the fine arts building?? #academicchatter #academicsky
"smart watch" as a portable computer is pointless. the wearable computer should take up your entire forearm and fold out like a yugioh duel disk and also you can do poses with it