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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 12h

Wilson should wear all black uniforms after getting burned week after week after week after week.

Cowboys are doing the SAME THING over and over again expecting a different result.

Everyone on that field and sidelines is a Jerry Jones-approved pick.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 13h

No lesson plan today

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 13h

This is just sick.

Don't dehumanize yourself.

(My new slogan)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.

Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X?
These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedChicago

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 13h

“Joblessness for Black workers is rising again, two years after reaching a record low. Joblessness often spikes higher for historically marginalized groups during economic downturns..Trump’s assault on diversity programs and cuts to the federal work force could make it even more difficult.”

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RJ Ochoa @rjochoa.bsky.social · 15h

The Dallas Cowboys are absolutely wasting one of the better offenses and quarterback performances they have had in some time.

It is a crime against roster construction.

Failure from the front office. www.bloggingtheboys.com/dallas-cowbo...

Cowboys at Panthers third quarter update: Dallas up entering final quarter 24-20

Here is what happened in the third quarter of Sunday’s Cowboys/Panthers game.

www.bloggingtheboys.com

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 15h

Defense will make sure there's no time left. Give them a clean sweep today.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 16h

Dowdle has 155 yards and Pickens 168. Not quite all three phases.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe next week they could actually make a plan to stop the opponent's top offensive weapon.

Because it's such a big secret.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 17h

I've heard that letting receivers run around unguarded deep in the secondary is bad for the defense.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe next year we can have a defense too.

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 20h

The Jets have 82 yards of offense and the lead.

The football this morning, it is not good.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 20h

It's like we don't send them our best people.....

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 21h

The consequences for the perpetrator are getting uncovered at the first 3D meeting then zero romance/sex after that, so the incel drum keeps beating. The sad part will be the recipients who decide that not even online dating has any hope of meeting people. Everyone else is on their phone, of course.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22h

As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has been talking about re: lying and political life—

I wonder what this does to a society when people are using AI to basically manipulate each other romantically, with no consequences.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 21h

Every day I don't use TikTok (my entire existence) I feel like my IQ has a better chance of staying intact until something else in me gives up the ghost.

What BS mind rot.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h

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The premise is simple enough: kids use Snapchat’s AI tools to create images of a grimy man in their home and tell their parents they let them in to use the bathroom, take a nap, or just get a drink of water. Often they say the person claims to know the parents from work or college. And then, predictably, the parents lose their cool and demand they kick the man out. The kids, of course, record the whole thing, and post their parents reactions to TikTok, where some of the clips have millions of views.

Where things go from problematic to potentially dangerous is when the prank carries on for too long and parents call the authorities. Calls of a home invasion, especially involving children are treated as high priority by police, so pranks like this tie up valuable resources and could actually put the pranksters in danger. Round Rock Police Patrol Division Commander Andy McKinney told NBC that it could even “cause a SWAT response.”

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

"Dr. Frankenstein's experiments appeared unorthodox..." - NY Times

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

This is the logic of white supremacy. Everyone starves so a couple of psychopaths can maintain a false sense of superiority.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 1d

We are losing the war for brilliant minds across the world to a country that lost a war against emus.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 23h

I am waiting for "dehumanizing" to creep into then dominate the discussion about AI. Because that's the ultimate goal and result, whether it's education, creativity, or getting laid.

It's not even Big Brother forcing us into submission. People actively give up their own humanity to "sound better."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 23h

ROFLMAO

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 1d

Back then, the key issue was how mortgage MBS paper permeated the financial system then disintegrated on everyone's balance sheet.

Seems to be a lot of opacity to how all this DC work is getting financed. When the operators don't get the revenue and start to default, that's a danger for everyone.

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic cheerleading, WaPo. An allegedly reputable (LOL) newspaper shouldn't be seen with its head so far up the president's butt.

Bad look there.