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jacob riyeff

@riyeff.bsky.social

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translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate. ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 2d

also, the whole nostra aetate thing happened?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 2d

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 2d

i'm sorry i missed the celebration of turnips.

The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 5d

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Turnips.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 2d

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 2d

was told by an administrator they use gen'ai' to do big jobs, like summarizing results of student surveys: 1000s of answers boiled down in sec's.
the problem is that if the data set is too large for someone to go thru, how would one know if the bot's outputs are accurate at all?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 3d

apropos the hand-wringing about the shifting internet reality:
i feel very prepared for the 'ai'-slop-filled internet by being someone who never cared for the digital monstrosity the internet is and who has been in love with real-world art since my early teens.
you too?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 3d

grading on the deck near the plants and this bee has been on my bare foot for a few minutes walking around. trying to keep it cool, but man when will he get off? freakin' me out.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 3d

the world is such a beautiful old place, and then we go on living like this.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 3d

i might actually do this.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 3d

😅
and so true. so true.

Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 3d

I might buy a pack of cigarettes just to carry around and hand to people who say that to me, if we're going to take the marketing habits of the 1920s to heart lets at least do it all the way, with the smooth, toasted flavor of American grown tobacco

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.

contemporary 2 slice toaster @poasting-toaster.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely what the fuck is an "ai skill" that isn't basic reading comprehension, skepticism, the ability to evaluate sources, and, like, typing?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 4d

happy ides of october!
22nd moon.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 5d

the mridangam solo that starts around 1:34!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKZ...

The Ultimate Jugalbandi ft. Ramana Balachandhran and Anantha R. Krishnan

YouTube video by G5A

www.youtube.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 5d

day before the ides of october.
21st moon.
de-compute!

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6d

Over and over Sam Altman and OpenAI make it clear that educators who care about the deepening climate crisis and our students’ futures should be resisting and refusing this company at every single opportunity.

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 9d

the digital problems aren't really problems in your day if you don't think about nor rely on the internet much in your day.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 9d

some activities are not improved by "saving time" doing them.

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Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration @benedictinesisters.bsky.social · 12d

New at Monastery Creations: Sister Jane’s handcrafted Bloom & Bough Soap Bundles! These four-soap bundles are elegantly wrapped by hand with carefully chosen embellishments. Choose from two categories: Harvest of Blessings or Rustic Roots. Shop today at monasterycreations.com/collections/...

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 16d

hear, hear!

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 16d

Therefore both ‘general intelligence’ and ‘intelligence’ have already outlived the (limited) scientific usefulness they had, and it’s high time to put them on the relic shelf next to phlogiston. Or behind it. At least phlogiston wasn’t invented by eugenicists.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 16d

Is it wrong for your kid to play with a "racist pile of linear algebra" (h/t @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social ) that's deployed by Big Tech companies whose primary desire is to scale scale scale through evermore exploitation and extraction?

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 16d

6th day before the nones of october.
9th moon. (waxing gibbous)
off to the baraboo hills tomorrow!

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 18d

kalendis octobris!
8th moon.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19d

is any of this 'openai is not saving the world but just doing usual internet stuff w/ their software' even worth saying? did anyone ever/does anyone now think that's really what they were doing?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19d

jugalbandi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKZ...

The Ultimate Jugalbandi ft. Ramana Balachandhran and Anantha R. Krishnan

YouTube video by G5A

www.youtube.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19d

þæs ofereode; þysses swa mæg.

(—deor)