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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question. Where the hell does that 8 minutes come from?!

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 8d

Seems like a good moment to reshare this. Some suggestions on age-appropriate scary movies for your kids and grandkids - or, indeed, great grandkids - this #Halloween... #Horror #Film #Parenting #SundayBlogs stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children

I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 2d

It is interesting that he chose to harrass Connolly, who has never been in government, rather than Humphries, who was a cabinet minister when the Gender Recognition Act was passed.

It's almost like it's not really about what he says it's about, isn't it?

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 2d

This! Nearly threw up 😅

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Miami!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3d

A really interesting, fundamental conceit of all these AI enthusiasts is that the ideas they have are great and all they need is this magic box to execute them. As pedestrian as these people‘s brains are for anything except self aggrandizement, I kind of doubt that’s what’s holding them back.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 8d

Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away”

That's it.

That's the quote.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 4d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3d

Cross-stitching this into a pillow for my office

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 4d

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

This is fine dog meme

Am orangish brown dog sits on a red chair wearing a hat that matches his fur color. A circular table in front of him has a coffee cup on it. Around him, flames roar and smoke covers the ceiling. His speech bubble says "this is fine"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch

OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4d

Celebrating the publication of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (1847).

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?"
#English #Literature #film

JANE EYRE (film) Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
United Kingdom, 2011. "After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess at Thornfield House, an isolated and imposing residence, property of the cold and mysterious Mr Rochester. While Jane finds herself falling in love with him, she discovers he is hiding a terrible secret."

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 5d

Mr Casaubon....
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6d

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

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Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 6d

Yes but terrible. 😅 A proper one would be amazing the books are terrific. Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone books would be great too.

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 6d

Would love to see a big adaptation of James Lee Burke's Robicheaux books!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 6d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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servane mouazan🍉 @servanemouazan.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Look, a unicorn CEO whose innovation is eventually about ..well, just wanking. What a feat, mate.
Honestly.
🫩 Tech Bros surpassed themselves.
Again

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 7d

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 10d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 7d

Preach.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 7d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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