litcritter.bsky.social
@litcritter.bsky.social
Geeky blue dot in Missouri
Turned a nice little bowl today. #woodworking
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Searched YouTube music (don’t judge) for “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” and among the search results was a podcast about the Dyatlov pass incident.

Huh.

Okay, I guess I can see that.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A filled donut is basically a breakfast burrito.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion."

Amen.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Who knew Laurie Anderson had thoughts about genAI?
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This is lore-accurate. Clerics are only proficient with bludgeoning weapons.
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It’s college application season, and it’s reminding me of the time I lost my freaking mind in the middle of a pile of applications and turned in a personal statement done entirely in rhyming couplets. Thank the gods it was in the days of typewriters.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My wife and I have been using IKEA nightstands for years, ands I’ve been designing replacements in my head for years. Finally committed pencil to graph paper over the summer. Started them about a month ago, and finally brought them up from the workshop today. #woodworking
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For those wondering why ICE is leaving Chicago and heading to Charlotte, it’s because winter in Chicago is hard, and they don’t like to do things that are hard. That’s also why they’re kidnapping law abiding citizens instead of going after criminals.
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thinking about genAI this morning.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I finished the resin printing workstation ventilation, including a vent hood where my wife can clean her prints without worrying about the alcohol fumes. #woodworking #maker
October 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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[Exit King.]
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Mr. Speaker, when do you plan on catching up on the news? There's a lot going on.
October 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I am obligated to inform you that in the original Hebrew, it is a plague of Frog. One. Singular. Giant. Frog.

Do with the knowledge what you will.
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM