Caitlin
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I am coming over here from the bird-gossip site. Under construction. Uggh I hate moving.
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Hi! I am actually currently writing a paper for grad school reflecting on Mary Flanagan's "Critical Play" and applying its ideas to art and activism. Do you mind if I cite this social media post?
I do not hate America.

I hate when someone tries to trap America inside a narrow idea of what she should be.
Who she should be.
How she should be.

America
is destroying her cage
Yes
YES
America is out
Kids LOVE axolotls. Our school book fair is happening and there are multiple books AND fancy schmancy pens featuring axolotls.
Me: Just look at all these young people!

High schooler: That's the oldest thing I've ever heard you say.
The scumbag is the person who has hateful views and makes cruel jokes, not the person holding them accountable.
It's telling that Vance's first instinct following the Politico leak was to tell his sons to be wary of what they write in group chats--to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm.”

His message here is basically--be racist; just don't get caught.
The one specific instance I know of AI being used to help detect cancer definitely comes from an iterative process rather than a generative one. Doctors retrained an AI designed to sort pastries to detect breast cancer. www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
In Japan, a system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of a whole lot more.
www.newyorker.com
Me but instead of making a baby dress it's literally all of my ambitions
I want sew a dress for Thea but I refuse to use a pattern or learn what im doing in any way
I jinxed it! Sub that's been in place for weeks canceled at 6:30am.
Making sub plans stress me out. What if everything falls apart without me? Or, what if everything goes so well without me that everyone realizes they don't need me?
When the cheesemonger plies me with samples to help me decide on a cheese, they are actually incentivizing me to never decide on a cheese. Infinite sample hack.
does any body else just kind of freeze up when u see this much cheese like it suddenly becomes impossible to choose and then the cheese monger starts plying you with delicious cheese samples to help u decide
"Do I have to wear pants?" but to the tune of "oops I did it again"
A kid pointed to the Spock sticker on my laptop and said, "I have the same haircut. But mine looks better."
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Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.
No babe, I think this too. But I always thought I just have a very broad idea of what constitutes "attractive"
I just realized tomorrow is picture day. Maybe I should call my mom and have her pick out my outfit.
Kids and young people need to have grownup-cool people in their lives so they know that life doesn't peak in adolescence. When we try to hold onto our youth with both hands, it makes us look desperate, and it makes aging look undesirable when it's actually wonderful to be able to do it.
It’s actually fine to still care about being cool, but you have to pivot to grownup cool. Don’t worry if you’re impressing people younger than you. Don’t try to keep up unless that comes naturally.

Grownup cool is just being confident and interesting. Just be yourself and don’t worry.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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If you're of the right age range: Stop for a second, close your eyes, and think of the sound of a modem connecting. It's still in there, isn't it? Still screaming. Always screaming.
I am taking a coding class right now and I'm really enjoying it. But I am extremely hesitant to use AI for it because I want to embody this learning in order to keep utilizing it. If I outsource the thinking, am I going to retain this knowledge, these skills for myself?
I'm an early elementary school teacher working towards a computer science endorsement for my teaching license, and I am so grateful that social media allows me the opportunity to "eavesdrop" on experts having authentic conversations.
this is a very good question; why is "prompting" considered qualitatively different from "just communicating clearly"
The appeal of GenAI is supposed to be that one doesn’t need to be skilled in using it because it understands what you want.

…so why focus so much on training to use it?
I assume when a British person goes "oh my giddy aunts" they are talking about Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding
This is the way
the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies

I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it

and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision
I love grad school because I love the work but I might love yapping about the work even more, and that's a lot of what grad school is so far.