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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3h

We could have ended world hunger, solved domestic homelessness, and probably established universal healthcare for the amount that has been poured into AI companies (The Guardian estimates $717 billion), all so they can soon answer the question, "What are you wearing?"

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 5h

other duties as assigned

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

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

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I have a PhD, but I also have no idea how much spaghetti to cook for a given number of people.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it is extraordinary to realize that it's not employing any concept at all of "these are sharps and these are flats, and I need x number of them over here, then x+1..." It really is just slopping out pixels all over in something resembling images it's been trained on, and hoping for the best

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · Aug 21

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped.

[Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

ChatGPT's diagram of the Circle of Fifths. Many wrong key names (including two Bs, and the enharmonic pair C-sharp, G-flat, and 100% incorrect key signatures, mostly mixing flats, sharps, and the occasional double sharp)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

That’s actually decent compared to circles of fifths I’ve seen it make before

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

Got back from the neighborhood fall festival to find the grisly scene of our Roomba trying to eat an American Girl doll hair first, how’s your Saturday going?

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 5d

This is the energy we all need to bring to bring to discussions about AI

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 7d

I've spent the past few weeks getting back into Times New Roman, as an act of aesthetic rebellion (or perhaps anti-aesthetic rebellion).

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 8d

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 9d

Proposal: Faculty meetings, but somebody is running a sound effects board like an obnoxious drive-time radio show.

What sound effect or clip are you bringing to your faculty meetings? I'm wearing out the button on this one:

www.youtube.com/shorts/kQgI1...

'OH NO. DISASTER. WHAT A BAD IDEA' 🤣🍿 #cfb #usc #maryland #hornets #bigten

YouTube video by CFB ON FOX

www.youtube.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 11d

Wife and older kid away at Girl Scout camp so I’ve taken the younger one to the movies. The local ads here are just gloriously bad. Absolutely peak public access level stuff here, from bad lighting to awkward extras to voiceovers with intense Baltimore accents. It’s inspiring.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 11d

Not until I saw this post, but I am now!

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations Chelsea! Can’t wait to read this!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15d

Learning that 85% of ChatGPT users are men, and AI users are between 2-6x more likely to be men overall, and suddenly everything makes sense

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

I hear it’s a light lift, most of the action is client side. Still, it’s pure luck that it’s still around. The EA news makes me dread the day when some private equity ass realizes that server is costing them 12 cents a day and kills it. But until then, I’m enjoying myself. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 16d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, it’s an EA game, which makes its survival all the more miraculous. Normally, big companies turn these servers off once the game is no longer selling. Often only a couple of years. I’m pretty sure Star Wars Battlefield, which I had at the same time, is long dead.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

It feels miraculous that the servers are still running, and people are still playing it. It’s like a cozy sweater. it somehow unlocks a part of me I haven’t accessed in years. The old maps are like home, the old builds fit like a glove (or…don’t, for the ones that never did).

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

I dropped off at some point, naturally. Life happens: I got closer to finishing, I started teaching some classes at Tufts (🩵🤎). I had a kid, went on the market.

ME3 was only a few years old then, but now it’s 13. I haven’t played in years. But I got the itch recently, and: it’s still around!

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

I played it obsessively for about two years. I was decent, never great but good enough. There’s very much a feeling of playing pickup soccer (the other hobby I took up to rebuild my health): know your own strengths and weaknesses, support the team, don’t be a showboat. Don’t let the side down. 4/

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

I think Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games ever made. You should play it, even now. The third isn’t as good, but…the third had multiplayer! And it was glorious. IS glorious. Four players, cooperative. Class-based, so you need a good team synergy and you need to know your role. 3/x

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

It’s an action RPG, think of a blend of Star Wars and Star Trek. I played the 1st, and I remember starting the 2nd right after I took the exams; it held me together and helped me recover from the stress (I passed w/honors, but if you’ve known me long enough you may know I lost 15 lbs and went bald)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been thinking about writing a post on this for a few days, EA news convinced me to.

The past two weeks, I’ve gotten back into playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. The Mass Effect series got me through my PhD exam summer. Study all day at the music department, go home and play to relax 1/x

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 16d

Schedule-sending literally 25 emails to go out at 9am on Monday morning is the real work-life balance. Can't wait to see what a mess my inbox is after teaching...

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