Thotton Mather
@thottonmather.bsky.social
Why not be utterly changed into fire
they want higher ed to collapse SO bad. SO bad!!!
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 6d agoThe US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to fill out triplicate forms
I've had enough. I'm banning Beatrix Potter's "Pigling Bland" from my household. I cannot bear to read it aloud one more time.
biblical thunderstorms every afternoon but the humidity never breaks
I have strong critical thinking skills: ⚪️ strongly disagree ⚪️ disagree ⚪️ neutral ⚪️ agree 🔘 strongly agree I often stand up quickly and bang my head into the upper cabinet door I just opened so hard I see stars: ⚪️ strongly disagree ⚪️ disagree ⚪️ neutral ⚪️ agree 🔘 strongly agree
My wife sent me a video of an oriole delicately dipping a grasshopper into the jelly at this bird buffet
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Nothing hits more than a couple of random songs you accidentally downloaded on Limewire as a teen while looking for another band's music. That's the real stuff.
This reminds me how I knew one aged Classics professor who had heard about podcasts from his students but refused to use computers and had a "Bad experience" with a CD player once so he wanted his students to put podcasts onto cassette tapes for him
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 2mo ago"we're using AI to turn PDFs into podcasts" is gonna be one of those phrases that gets mocked in about 20 years as the absolute height of the 2020s AI bubble of creating useless features dreamt up by Linkedin-climbing MBA lunatics for an audience of no one
republicans are busy rediscovering the germ theory of disease, while nyc is basically rediscovering the idea of Community
Hoarding booms is still hoarding. They’re useless if you can’t find them and if you’re damaging them by storing them improperly
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
Vacationing with midwesterners next week. Saw the menu. Only one vegetable listed, and it's "salad" and I'm scared as to what that might mean
'She enjoyed working with the cast of 30 chickens, describing them as "really sweet" and praising their acting ability' is just a really great sentence on Wikipedia
Short form video does seem to bypass peoples’ critical faculties in a way that is cognitively interesting but socially disastrous
Rachel Hallie@dazedrachel.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're seeing this phenomenon expanded to the internet, where an unqualified funny dude's ability to make an engaging video is mistaken for education
i have always felt it was an unconscionable cruelty to shut off a computer that is running age of empires ii and now i have proof
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo agothis is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
the "HR lady" thing was designed in a lab to make a bunch of guys dismiss the obvious misogyny when there's a shred of truth about the nature of HR they can hyperfocus on instead
When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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