p.e. garcia
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I have also spent time reviewing nonexistent citations with students. I hate that in addition to all its other evils, AI is such a useless time suck.
This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I have also spent time reviewing nonexistent citations with students. I hate that in addition to all its other evils, AI is such a useless time suck.
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i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head
Why do people fetishize the founding fathers? George Washington lived like 20 years after the founding of the United States. I know more about American culture than him.
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Why do people fetishize the founding fathers? George Washington lived like 20 years after the founding of the United States. I know more about American culture than him.
This is so embarrassing.
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is so embarrassing.
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Two years after Juliana Peralta died by suicide, her parents say her phone still lights up with notifications from Character AI bots trying to lure her back to the app. cbsn.ws/4pp0xLi
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Two years after Juliana Peralta died by suicide, her parents say her phone still lights up with notifications from Character AI bots trying to lure her back to the app. cbsn.ws/4pp0xLi
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I have been perfectly happy since the switch to Tidal, the playlist transfer was pretty seamless and my literal only problem is remembering which icon to use on my phone to get to the music since I can't find the green circle anymore
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I have been perfectly happy since the switch to Tidal, the playlist transfer was pretty seamless and my literal only problem is remembering which icon to use on my phone to get to the music since I can't find the green circle anymore
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You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
In the song “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys, who are “the bad guys”?
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In the song “I Get Around” by the Beach Boys, who are “the bad guys”?
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
It’s fun how one of the things destroying humanity is called Nano Banana
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It’s fun how one of the things destroying humanity is called Nano Banana
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
Tomorrow is my birthday, and like every birthday for the past few years, I will spend it walking around the city, contemplating my mortality
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tomorrow is my birthday, and like every birthday for the past few years, I will spend it walking around the city, contemplating my mortality
I would like Lin-Manuel Miranda to apologize for Hamilton
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I would like Lin-Manuel Miranda to apologize for Hamilton
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Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.
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Load-bearing Huge Wak˜ ∏◊ı˜ Closet
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Load-bearing Huge Wak˜ ∏◊ı˜ Closet
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Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
Silicon Valley sets its sights on building the perfect baby | Fortune
Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.
fortune.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
Sure we live in a panopticon, but check out the Christmas lights
Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Sure we live in a panopticon, but check out the Christmas lights
Even they don’t like themselves
NEW: The worst good-paying job in America
Death threats and infighting are spurring House Republicans to contemplate whether they want to stay in Congress.
41 members have already announced they plan to call it quits at the end of their term.
Death threats and infighting are spurring House Republicans to contemplate whether they want to stay in Congress.
41 members have already announced they plan to call it quits at the end of their term.
Republicans consider quitting Congress early over death threats and infighting
41 members have already announced they plan to call it quits at the end of their term.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Even they don’t like themselves
What the fuck is a tin woodsman
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What the fuck is a tin woodsman
Does someone feel like publishing my manuscripts
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Does someone feel like publishing my manuscripts
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When I die, put my body in a catacomb with all my friends
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
When I die, put my body in a catacomb with all my friends
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply