Kaigen
@kaigen.bsky.social
He/they. TTRPG and video game enjoyer. Plays entirely too much FFXIV and reads a lot of SFF.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Man i love how crazy this is like this is the extreme absurd answer to who would be the worst person to invite to the set of your kids show just chefs kiss no sense allowed on the production under jkr a whole show made in a reality warped bubble
They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Man i love how crazy this is like this is the extreme absurd answer to who would be the worst person to invite to the set of your kids show just chefs kiss no sense allowed on the production under jkr a whole show made in a reality warped bubble
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GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
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A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement. n.pr/44ph9KC
Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one
Second round of cookies: chocolate and vanilla pinwheel sablés. These are my favorites.
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Second round of cookies: chocolate and vanilla pinwheel sablés. These are my favorites.
This week's baking experiment: vanilla pretzel sablés made with King Arthur measure for measure GF flour. This is my first attempt at making them in this shape and with raw sugar sprinkled on top.
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This week's baking experiment: vanilla pretzel sablés made with King Arthur measure for measure GF flour. This is my first attempt at making them in this shape and with raw sugar sprinkled on top.
I read a pre-print study re: teaching prompting in a business comm class, with success only being achieved by prompting with exact rhetorical context and multiple rounds of specific feedback.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
there’s a lot of irony around how writing a genuinely good prompt for LLMs requires the exact kind of clarity and precision in communication that is taught by good (human) writing instructors - who have now almost all been laid off by college admins
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I read a pre-print study re: teaching prompting in a business comm class, with success only being achieved by prompting with exact rhetorical context and multiple rounds of specific feedback.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.
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That's it. That's the show.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
That's it. That's the show.
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"Grackle Assessment" (Common Grackle) 7" x 5" Oil on panel
I've had the fortune of having both the bronzed and the purple forms visit!
I've had the fortune of having both the bronzed and the purple forms visit!
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Grackle Assessment" (Common Grackle) 7" x 5" Oil on panel
I've had the fortune of having both the bronzed and the purple forms visit!
I've had the fortune of having both the bronzed and the purple forms visit!
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The teenager that lives in my head: you said cringe is dead that means you have to let me draw cute wolf girls
Me: they’re derivative.
The teenager: is cringe dead or alive
Me, through gritted teeth: it’s dead
Me: they’re derivative.
The teenager: is cringe dead or alive
Me, through gritted teeth: it’s dead
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The teenager that lives in my head: you said cringe is dead that means you have to let me draw cute wolf girls
Me: they’re derivative.
The teenager: is cringe dead or alive
Me, through gritted teeth: it’s dead
Me: they’re derivative.
The teenager: is cringe dead or alive
Me, through gritted teeth: it’s dead
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Maybe I should have done a better cover reveal but I noticed it was sneaking up on the Amazon site and like, hey. I love this cover. SO MELODRAMATIC! MUCH OCEAN! VERY STORMS!!!!!
All of the covers in this series are by the amazing www.instagram.com/byhangle/
All of the covers in this series are by the amazing www.instagram.com/byhangle/
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Maybe I should have done a better cover reveal but I noticed it was sneaking up on the Amazon site and like, hey. I love this cover. SO MELODRAMATIC! MUCH OCEAN! VERY STORMS!!!!!
All of the covers in this series are by the amazing www.instagram.com/byhangle/
All of the covers in this series are by the amazing www.instagram.com/byhangle/
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same and I love this tumblr post about DA2
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
same and I love this tumblr post about DA2
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ME: [seven days into the Twelve Days of Christmas, showing up at the bird store again] hello, I would--
BIRD STORE GUY: no. you have to tell me what you're actually doing with all these birds before I sell you any more.
BIRD STORE GUY: no. you have to tell me what you're actually doing with all these birds before I sell you any more.
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
ME: [seven days into the Twelve Days of Christmas, showing up at the bird store again] hello, I would--
BIRD STORE GUY: no. you have to tell me what you're actually doing with all these birds before I sell you any more.
BIRD STORE GUY: no. you have to tell me what you're actually doing with all these birds before I sell you any more.
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I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
we talk a lot about the weirdo techbro obsession with immortality these AI necromancy projects embody, but I'm arguably even MORE fascinated by the terror of allowing yourself to experience deep, complex emotions they so obviously reveal
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
you cannot prevent yourself from feeling grief with an app??
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.
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cass for cassandraweek2025 day 3 on twt. she’s reading yuri #dragonage #dai #cassandrapentaghast #beezart
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
cass for cassandraweek2025 day 3 on twt. she’s reading yuri #dragonage #dai #cassandrapentaghast #beezart
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good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
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This is a bit of local flavor I absolutely adore.
So, in Fair Oaks, at the corner of Sunrise and Fair Oaks Blvd, there is a dirt lot with a retaining wall that’s been sitting unused for decades. DECADES. Literally since the ‘80s.
The retaining wall had “NO PARKING” painted on it.
So, in Fair Oaks, at the corner of Sunrise and Fair Oaks Blvd, there is a dirt lot with a retaining wall that’s been sitting unused for decades. DECADES. Literally since the ‘80s.
The retaining wall had “NO PARKING” painted on it.
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is a bit of local flavor I absolutely adore.
So, in Fair Oaks, at the corner of Sunrise and Fair Oaks Blvd, there is a dirt lot with a retaining wall that’s been sitting unused for decades. DECADES. Literally since the ‘80s.
The retaining wall had “NO PARKING” painted on it.
So, in Fair Oaks, at the corner of Sunrise and Fair Oaks Blvd, there is a dirt lot with a retaining wall that’s been sitting unused for decades. DECADES. Literally since the ‘80s.
The retaining wall had “NO PARKING” painted on it.
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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
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AI art was basically universally accepted as a fun little toy up until the point the big AI boosters settled on a message of "fuck artists."
It makes you wonder what the world looks like if its biggest evangelists weren't irresponsible repulsive people.
It makes you wonder what the world looks like if its biggest evangelists weren't irresponsible repulsive people.
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
AI art was basically universally accepted as a fun little toy up until the point the big AI boosters settled on a message of "fuck artists."
It makes you wonder what the world looks like if its biggest evangelists weren't irresponsible repulsive people.
It makes you wonder what the world looks like if its biggest evangelists weren't irresponsible repulsive people.
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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This is one of those things where a layman could look at it and go "amazing, that's really cool" but as someone who makes their living drawing I'll go, "No actually it's magic, it's absolute wizardry, you don't know how impossible it is that this guy made it look so effortless."
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is one of those things where a layman could look at it and go "amazing, that's really cool" but as someone who makes their living drawing I'll go, "No actually it's magic, it's absolute wizardry, you don't know how impossible it is that this guy made it look so effortless."
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Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.
The skill being taught is thinking
The skill being taught is thinking
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.
The skill being taught is thinking
The skill being taught is thinking
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“Kids today and their AuDHD—“ Victor Hugo had to lock himself in a room without clothes to make himself actually finish a draft and also he wrote six bonus chapters about the history of the Paris sewer system for his book about how poverty is one of the great evils of mankind
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Kids today and their AuDHD—“ Victor Hugo had to lock himself in a room without clothes to make himself actually finish a draft and also he wrote six bonus chapters about the history of the Paris sewer system for his book about how poverty is one of the great evils of mankind