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@kiyarulwa.bsky.social
still just here following folks emigrating from twitter. mostly a lurker, but may post about rofan webtoons, otome games, plave, academia, etc.
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해무배 들고갈 아크릴스탠드 선화 우땨땨
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
해무배 들고갈 아크릴스탠드 선화 우땨땨
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“We’ve been waiting for you.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
“We’ve been waiting for you.”
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If you like Bataille, you'll like me.
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
If you like Bataille, you'll like me.
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
Incredible
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Incredible
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“The government wants to control TV news; owners of local affiliates want to consolidate; and the studios want to consolidate, too…. This circle represents the death of knowledge and art in an age of extreme wealth inequality.” —A.S. Hamrah
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
www.nybooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“The government wants to control TV news; owners of local affiliates want to consolidate; and the studios want to consolidate, too…. This circle represents the death of knowledge and art in an age of extreme wealth inequality.” —A.S. Hamrah
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I enjoyed reading this exploration of the arguments against romance fiction, since it does identify a real gap in the models romance offers for happiness. I admit that, even when it offers alternatives to romantic love e.g. www.vivanco.me.uk/faith-love-h... it emphasises happiness via community.
“Avoid Magic”: Le Guin’s Case for “Solitude” in the Era of Romantasy - Reactor
Weighed against the narrative perfection of a Happily Ever After, can there be pleasure in remaining alone?
reactormag.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I enjoyed reading this exploration of the arguments against romance fiction, since it does identify a real gap in the models romance offers for happiness. I admit that, even when it offers alternatives to romantic love e.g. www.vivanco.me.uk/faith-love-h... it emphasises happiness via community.
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Really great study on the rather troubling online discourse around Japanese language learning in certain portions of the web, focused on "techno-solutionism", consumption, and native bias just got published by a good buddy of mine. Open access too! Check it out @ academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Really great study on the rather troubling online discourse around Japanese language learning in certain portions of the web, focused on "techno-solutionism", consumption, and native bias just got published by a good buddy of mine. Open access too! Check it out @ academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
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It is Theranos over and over again. From $1.5bi valuation to zero to Filipino contractors masquerading as AI, it’s just so much grift.
(Of course, LLMs can have legitimate business applications, but realistic pitches don’t seem to raise hundreds of millions)
Gift link.
(Of course, LLMs can have legitimate business applications, but realistic pitches don’t seem to raise hundreds of millions)
Gift link.
How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It is Theranos over and over again. From $1.5bi valuation to zero to Filipino contractors masquerading as AI, it’s just so much grift.
(Of course, LLMs can have legitimate business applications, but realistic pitches don’t seem to raise hundreds of millions)
Gift link.
(Of course, LLMs can have legitimate business applications, but realistic pitches don’t seem to raise hundreds of millions)
Gift link.
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Really good investigative piece on the absurdity of the fad of pushing AI into education. We have a non-violent John Brown, teacherless schools, and, of course, billionaires trying to profit from enshitfication.
Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working
Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?
www.bloomberg.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Really good investigative piece on the absurdity of the fad of pushing AI into education. We have a non-violent John Brown, teacherless schools, and, of course, billionaires trying to profit from enshitfication.
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From October 2025 -
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v
- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v
- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
From October 2025 -
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v
- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v
- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
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There was a time when professors warned students never to cite Wikipedia. Now it has become foundational knowledge for AI systems and a trusted resource for community fact-checkers who use it to make sense of information & settle debates. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca #FactChecking #DigitalLiteracy
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There was a time when professors warned students never to cite Wikipedia. Now it has become foundational knowledge for AI systems and a trusted resource for community fact-checkers who use it to make sense of information & settle debates. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca #FactChecking #DigitalLiteracy
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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My hottest take:
I do not think that fictional characters should have human rights. There is, in fact, no limit to what should be allowed to happen to them, on account of them being not real and imaginary.
I do not think that fictional characters should have human rights. There is, in fact, no limit to what should be allowed to happen to them, on account of them being not real and imaginary.
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My hottest take:
I do not think that fictional characters should have human rights. There is, in fact, no limit to what should be allowed to happen to them, on account of them being not real and imaginary.
I do not think that fictional characters should have human rights. There is, in fact, no limit to what should be allowed to happen to them, on account of them being not real and imaginary.
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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Citation is feminist memory.
The whole point of citations beyond "showing your work" is so it's clear where your evidence is coming from. I'll be the last person to be a stickler about the specifics of a given style other than my deep and abiding hatred for APA but citations matter! They matter so much!
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Citation is feminist memory.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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What if we thought of journalism as community service?
@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.
@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.
My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.
What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What if we thought of journalism as community service?
@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.
@terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.
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“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”
-- Charles Simic
-- Charles Simic
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One professor at Rutgers University now requires students to attend a play whose ending changes every night, so she knows if they were there. Such retrenchments are likely to keep spreading
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One professor at Rutgers University now requires students to attend a play whose ending changes every night, so she knows if they were there. Such retrenchments are likely to keep spreading
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I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
mikecaulfield.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
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Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.