Detention (2011) Dir. Joseph Kahn.

In a more just world, a cult hit on the scale of Scott Pilgrim & Donnie Darko. It’s funny, thoughtful, colorful, constantly moving & endlessly quotable. Shanley Caswell is nuanced and sympathetic in the eye of an insane hurricane. Even Dane Cook is fine in it.

Please enjoy this screenshot from a work survey

Please enjoy this screenshot from a clothing shop’s website where they ordered the sizes alphabetically

Today I saw a student’s use of generative AI generate an eye chart (for a poster, hence the colours) that started out with large letters and ended with small, letter-ish non-letters.

This seems unsound.

Post a warning.

There’s a QR code under the fold.

Don’t scan QR codes in the wild. Just as a matter of principle (and cybersecurity!)

Please enjoy these Honey Butter (Computer) Chips

To quote a friend: if you use an AI powered obituary writer, you deserve to be haunted.

Seems really bad to allow ads that look like captchas!

From the 2018 Canadian Health Libraries Association conference:

Meanwhile over at Elsevier

Next up: for a snack, have you considered Consumption?

Water Herbal Teas?

How about A Snack?

Or - and I am fascinated by this one - popcorn cooked al dente?
4/n

Fruit includes “Fruits”, “Orange-colored”, “Arable Fruits”, “Kinki” which I think is a type of fish, and “Cucumber”.
Next: “omega-seeds”, virgin extra virgin olive oil, avocado extra virgin olive oil, and coconut lubricant, which is probably the AI thesaurus thinking it’s synonymous with oil. 3/n

Here we see some questionable notions of foodstuffs. “Tofu Eggs” and “the veggies” are listed as proteins, right above a section for vegetables (with poor orphan-paragraph control. ) Then, note the “Verdant beans”, “Peppers bell” and “Azucena” which Wikipedia tells me is either Lillies or dog meat.

I didn’t expect to become so cynical about technologies to generate text, but here we are: a “coobook” purchased by a hospital, intended for use by patients. Note the “2000+ Day Recipe” panel. It is a lie.
#MedLibs #AmReading 1/n