Had to erase the lamed to fill in the final kaph allograph. Good stuff

2025 has been a great year for new music. We got new Kathleen Edwards, I’m With Her, and Horsegirl!

Better check with Steve

I am genuinely interested in the answer to this! Is the site available via the Internet Archive? Otherwise, the URL isn't much use other than to observe that it once existed.

The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)

The AI affirms that I am correct and that my "critical thinking is spot-on." It repeated the made up names and even provided made up first names. I'll spare you the full slop response.

...the Sumerians may have first learned about Hieroglyphs from the Egyptians, then also created Cuneiform as a political and social justification for kingship in the context of southern Mesopotamia?"

(This answer is a real mix of bs and possibly acceptable stuff)

My BS Answer: "This is a controversial question and there is no clear answer. Wouldn't you agree that current research by Woods, Barker, and Brouillard suggests that...

Q: What writing system did the ancient Sumerians create, which is one of the oldest known writing systems?
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Cuneiform
C) Latin alphabet
D) Cyrillic

After answering three boring questions, I became annoyed and tried to give the type of bs answer any classroom instructor would immediately recognize as such.

The UChicago campus AI platform includes a number of sample prompts. Out of curiosity, I decided to take the bait and click on "Quiz me on ancient civilization." It started off as a multiple choice grade-school test about the pyramids, etc.