davideelder.bsky.social
@davideelder.bsky.social
I teach writing.
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james cameron every couple of years for some reason:
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Fuckin rocking out
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Basketball is very good.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Sioux City, IA.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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“There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time…What’s the political cost of supporting our own people versus the cost of quietly surrendering?” Powerful words from a TCU colleague. www.texasobserver.org/tcu-eliminat...
My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don't Like
Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Well well well
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The Louvre got robbed today and it still wasn't as big a heist as the Luka trade
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.
October 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We gotta stop using the term “artificial intelligence.” LLMs are only one of those things, and it’s “artificial.”
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.
It would be neat if it wasn’t marketed as AI. Predictive statistical modeling doesn’t really slide off the tongue I guess
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Please support the kickstarter for my movie Kraven the Gatherer. Kraven gathers so much shit in this movie and his friends are all "Kraven, where are you gonna put all that stuff your apartment ain't that big" But Kraven ain't trying to hear it. He is a gatherin' fool and whatnot
September 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away
Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.
September 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Happy birthday to funniest man alive and it isn’t even close
it's my birthday, i'm 60

POUNDS hold for applause
September 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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james cameron walks up to whiteboard with TOEJAM and EARL written on it. he erases the "and" and writes Vs.
September 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I have pretty simple requirements for a phone. I need to be able to call and text my wife, make a grocery list, take pictures of my kids and open an app to scroll through posts documenting the worst things happening in the entire world at every second of the day. I'm kind of traditional I guess
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM