Patrick McAlpine
@edgewooddirk.bsky.social
English teacher when I got going, now educational technology is my day job. I miss my students. In Vino Veritas. 🍷
“We think of ourselves as thinking creatures who feel; but we are actually feeling creatures who think.” - Jill Bolte Taylor
“We think of ourselves as thinking creatures who feel; but we are actually feeling creatures who think.” - Jill Bolte Taylor
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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This is the exact inverse of Trump's "I alone" strict-father BS, which is powerfully coded in American brains. And verily, this is how we win.
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is the exact inverse of Trump's "I alone" strict-father BS, which is powerfully coded in American brains. And verily, this is how we win.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
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When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.
September 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.
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WE ARE THE ALGORITHM
If something is bad, don’t make it sound even worse
If something is good, don’t make it sound like the One Weird Trick that can fix everything
If something sounds like it could be right, but you know it’s wrong, don’t write or reshare it
Double check stuff before amplifying
We are the algorithm
If something is good, don’t make it sound like the One Weird Trick that can fix everything
If something sounds like it could be right, but you know it’s wrong, don’t write or reshare it
Double check stuff before amplifying
We are the algorithm
September 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
WE ARE THE ALGORITHM
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This is what unity looks like.
September 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This is what unity looks like.
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Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
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it is amazing how many of these guys love to make tough boastful statements then at the slightest sign of pushback back away like little bitches
FCC boss Brendan Carr now says his 'easy way or the hard way' comments about Jimmy Kimmel weren’t meant as a threat to pull licenses if Disney didn’t suspend him 🧢
September 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
it is amazing how many of these guys love to make tough boastful statements then at the slightest sign of pushback back away like little bitches
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
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Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
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Everyone dies
I bet Joni Ernst is having a really good night.
August 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Everyone dies
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Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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since Kennedy Center is no more, lemme bring back a magical moment that happened there
possibly the best cover for any song in any time in the entire human history.
and I am not even exaggerating.
(I am obviously not)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
and I am not even exaggerating.
(I am obviously not)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_...
Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD
YouTube video by Mark Pakula
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
since Kennedy Center is no more, lemme bring back a magical moment that happened there
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Another for the “single chords that make all the difference” file: the bright bVI in this Michael Jackson chorus—appropriately enough, under the “light” in “sunlight.” It’s a little jolt that makes the whole thing wake up, like a second wind. #dailysong youtu.be/5X-Mrc2l1d0
Michael Jackson - Rock With You (Official Video - Upscaled)
YouTube video by michaeljacksonVEVO
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Another for the “single chords that make all the difference” file: the bright bVI in this Michael Jackson chorus—appropriately enough, under the “light” in “sunlight.” It’s a little jolt that makes the whole thing wake up, like a second wind. #dailysong youtu.be/5X-Mrc2l1d0
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Do all those hustle culture guys whose schedule is like…
Wake up at 4am.
Eat a tiny meal.
Exercise for 15 minutes.
Tiny snack.
10 minute nap.
Splash around in a bowl of water.
Get dressed in practical clothes already laid out.
…realize that’s the same agenda as a literal baby?
Wake up at 4am.
Eat a tiny meal.
Exercise for 15 minutes.
Tiny snack.
10 minute nap.
Splash around in a bowl of water.
Get dressed in practical clothes already laid out.
…realize that’s the same agenda as a literal baby?
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Do all those hustle culture guys whose schedule is like…
Wake up at 4am.
Eat a tiny meal.
Exercise for 15 minutes.
Tiny snack.
10 minute nap.
Splash around in a bowl of water.
Get dressed in practical clothes already laid out.
…realize that’s the same agenda as a literal baby?
Wake up at 4am.
Eat a tiny meal.
Exercise for 15 minutes.
Tiny snack.
10 minute nap.
Splash around in a bowl of water.
Get dressed in practical clothes already laid out.
…realize that’s the same agenda as a literal baby?
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Kamala Harris was right about everything just like Hillary Clinton was and I’m proud AF to have voted for both of them, my conscience is clear because I chose experienced qualified leadership instead of trashy chaos and daily catastrophe.
August 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Kamala Harris was right about everything just like Hillary Clinton was and I’m proud AF to have voted for both of them, my conscience is clear because I chose experienced qualified leadership instead of trashy chaos and daily catastrophe.