Dr. Kara Larson Maloney
@docmedkneeval.bsky.social
My two titles: Doctor, and Mama. Medievalist. Wayward traveler. Awkward Turtleduck. Village crazy lady. Occasional kickboxer. Mostly harmless. They/She.
Nothing so comforting as running into an old friend at a bookstore.
(Thank you, @diane.dianeduane.com, for all the comfort over the past thirty-mumble years.)
(Thank you, @diane.dianeduane.com, for all the comfort over the past thirty-mumble years.)
June 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Nothing so comforting as running into an old friend at a bookstore.
(Thank you, @diane.dianeduane.com, for all the comfort over the past thirty-mumble years.)
(Thank you, @diane.dianeduane.com, for all the comfort over the past thirty-mumble years.)
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The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
The Trump Admin Wants to Confuse You About What Is and Isn’t Constitutional
But you don’t need to be a lawyer to know they're full of it.
www.teenvogue.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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"Queer is a slur" ...the way YOU say it maybe. And let's unpack that later, and deal with your issues then. But moving on. Naw, shut the fuck up, you can take me calling myself queer from my wretched clawed hands as I spitefully dig my way back to hell.
June 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Queer is a slur" ...the way YOU say it maybe. And let's unpack that later, and deal with your issues then. But moving on. Naw, shut the fuck up, you can take me calling myself queer from my wretched clawed hands as I spitefully dig my way back to hell.
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Stop giving your money to the wizard lady to fund transphobic campaigns, people
This is NOT a joke
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Stop giving your money to the wizard lady to fund transphobic campaigns, people
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Jonathan Joss was the victim of a violent, homophobic hate crime. This is why we have Pride Month and why we’ll only get louder and prouder. RIP Jonathan Joss
June 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Jonathan Joss was the victim of a violent, homophobic hate crime. This is why we have Pride Month and why we’ll only get louder and prouder. RIP Jonathan Joss
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Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/
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Libra: You are positively glowing today. Nuclear physicists can’t explain it.
June 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Libra: You are positively glowing today. Nuclear physicists can’t explain it.
I’m enjoying a stolen moment in my child’s swing in the backyard, soaking up sun and listening to Chappel Roan while waiting for salmon to smoke. Pas mal. Pas mal de tout.
May 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’m enjoying a stolen moment in my child’s swing in the backyard, soaking up sun and listening to Chappel Roan while waiting for salmon to smoke. Pas mal. Pas mal de tout.
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It’s a good time to contact your senators, US friends. Push hard on voting against the billionaire grift domestic policy bill.
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
www.senate.gov
May 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It’s a good time to contact your senators, US friends. Push hard on voting against the billionaire grift domestic policy bill.
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers.
The ID is
1153984868804468756
Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.
#Discord
The ID is
1153984868804468756
Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.
#Discord
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers.
The ID is
1153984868804468756
Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.
#Discord
The ID is
1153984868804468756
Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.
#Discord
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i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
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My approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward:
1. It's plagiarism.
2. Plagiarism is poison.
3. It doesn't even make your writing good.
4. I will catch you if you do it.
5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
1. It's plagiarism.
2. Plagiarism is poison.
3. It doesn't even make your writing good.
4. I will catch you if you do it.
5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
May 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward:
1. It's plagiarism.
2. Plagiarism is poison.
3. It doesn't even make your writing good.
4. I will catch you if you do it.
5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
1. It's plagiarism.
2. Plagiarism is poison.
3. It doesn't even make your writing good.
4. I will catch you if you do it.
5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
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If we ever get out of this, the fact that men and boys were cast by the media as victims in a time when women’s advances and rights were being deliberately erased will strike some historians as one of the more perverse little hypocrisies of our era.
May 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If we ever get out of this, the fact that men and boys were cast by the media as victims in a time when women’s advances and rights were being deliberately erased will strike some historians as one of the more perverse little hypocrisies of our era.
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"Everywhere at [the Moms for Liberty Convention], parents are urged to submit open records requests, inspect instructional materials for any hint of critical race theory (CRT), threaten legal action. In short, it’s a school administrator’s nightmare."
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
I Went to a Moms for Liberty Convention. Here’s What I Saw.
Everyone seemed to be trying to make a buck.
www.teenvogue.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Everywhere at [the Moms for Liberty Convention], parents are urged to submit open records requests, inspect instructional materials for any hint of critical race theory (CRT), threaten legal action. In short, it’s a school administrator’s nightmare."
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
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If anyone has ever told you that a fancy text trick you used on socisl media is inaccessible to screenreader users and you didn't understand why, this is a great video that demonstrates the problem super clearly!
Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name
Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name.
More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...
Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name.
More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...
May 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If anyone has ever told you that a fancy text trick you used on socisl media is inaccessible to screenreader users and you didn't understand why, this is a great video that demonstrates the problem super clearly!
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You also know it's the end of the semester when you create a form for an unrelated event and forget to add a space for contact information, so you have no idea who the response is actually from...
May 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You also know it's the end of the semester when you create a form for an unrelated event and forget to add a space for contact information, so you have no idea who the response is actually from...
SIGH.
As a professor who's seen the kind of shit that AI creates, and as an author from whom AI has stolen work, and as a person who is tired of people getting shit wrong because AI doesn't know how to summarize information correctly...
SIGH.
As a professor who's seen the kind of shit that AI creates, and as an author from whom AI has stolen work, and as a person who is tired of people getting shit wrong because AI doesn't know how to summarize information correctly...
SIGH.
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
May 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
SIGH.
As a professor who's seen the kind of shit that AI creates, and as an author from whom AI has stolen work, and as a person who is tired of people getting shit wrong because AI doesn't know how to summarize information correctly...
SIGH.
As a professor who's seen the kind of shit that AI creates, and as an author from whom AI has stolen work, and as a person who is tired of people getting shit wrong because AI doesn't know how to summarize information correctly...
SIGH.
Dear students,
We are all tired. We are all Done-Done-Duh-Done. But, before you ask your professor the question, please actually look at the LMS site for the class, or your syllabus, to see if the answer is there first.
Thank you,
your really really really really tired professor
We are all tired. We are all Done-Done-Duh-Done. But, before you ask your professor the question, please actually look at the LMS site for the class, or your syllabus, to see if the answer is there first.
Thank you,
your really really really really tired professor
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Dear students,
We are all tired. We are all Done-Done-Duh-Done. But, before you ask your professor the question, please actually look at the LMS site for the class, or your syllabus, to see if the answer is there first.
Thank you,
your really really really really tired professor
We are all tired. We are all Done-Done-Duh-Done. But, before you ask your professor the question, please actually look at the LMS site for the class, or your syllabus, to see if the answer is there first.
Thank you,
your really really really really tired professor
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Friendly reminder that you can verb any noun if you grammar hard enough.
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Friendly reminder that you can verb any noun if you grammar hard enough.
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Happy binary sunset!
May 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Happy binary sunset!
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18/66
May 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
18/66