And they really didn’t want to be, but the gays and the feminists and the black people insisted they were people too.

As always, the stupid comparison between plant-based meat and fresh fruit and vegetables… Compare the plant based burger with a beef burger (an ultra processed cow, so to speak)! They are both junk food with too much salt and not enough fibre BUT ONE DID TORTURE A COW WITH INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY.

Loved Fates and Furies as well as Matrix. Am looking forward to this one.

Homogeneous also doesn’t mean “different from my opinion”. There is nothing homogeneous about academia. Just because people agree to be nice and respectful (including pronouns) when they debate and argue DOESN’T MEAN THEY ONLY HAVE ONE OPINION. EXCEPT MAYBE ABOUT WELCOMING BIGOTS!

Sry for yelling.

Have you ever tried to get a humanities department to agree on anything???

This is one of my favourite episodes of Ologies @ologies.bsky.social. Maybe my all time favourite.

I don’t kick every car parked on the bike lane. What more do they want???

Yeah. Reading is not a completionist’s endeavour. Choosing is important. If I spend my time on a text I want to get something out of it. Just - sometimes - I get something out of a text I didn’t even want to read. ☺️

There’s also something to be said about the power not to read the things the powerful agree on.

Really?
I 100% agree: read what you want.
BUT
Also read things that don’t agree with you. Things that make you uncomfortable. Figure out why. Built up your own argument. Tell a story in return. Engage with the wider world.

My dad has no artistic talent. None. Give him flowers in a vase, he’ll somehow put it somewhere in a way that makes both the flowers and the room look worse.
He loved the idea of AI art. So I showed him. He made some birthday cards. He loved it. For a day.
The next day, he said it looked soulless.

They don’t want to make art accessible. They promise to make talent accessible, but they can’t. All you get is weird pictures.
It’s not like there is no place for AI graphics. It’s just that by stealing in order to create AI, the product is fundamentally abhorrent.