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Vance Ricks
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Philosophy/Comp. Sci. at Northeastern University in Boston

No relation to Frozone, Gervase Peterson, or Kevin Garnett
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Screen capture of juxtaposed newspaper items. On top is a description of the Ohio State University's "AI Fluency Initiative" requiring that "from 2029 onward, every Ohio State graduate will be fluent in field-related AI applications. On the bottom is a headline: "DOGE revokes $23 million grant intended to help Ohioans without internet access".
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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What? It doesn't accept "Luddite"??
Screenshot of The New York Times' 04 August 2025 "Spelling Bee" puzzle, featuring the letters "D", "E", "G", "I", "L", and "T" on the outside and the letter "U" in the center.
August 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mf...
Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker, in August of 1964 at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party convening in Jackson. Photo by Maurice Sorrell (1914–1998) Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
July 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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A tabby cat is standing next to a copy of Empire of AI by Karen Hao.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This juxtaposition is too much.
A paragraph of the linked article ends with the phrase, "from 2029 onward, every Ohio State graduate will be fluent in the application of AI in their field." Immediately below that phrase is a link to a different article, headlined, "DOGE revokes $23 million grant intended to help Ohioans without internet access".
June 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Me: Hi - I got an email that the books I ordered came in.

Local Bookstore Owner: Yes. We appreciate your continued business! But you're really going to have to buy some other kind of book sometime. These titles are getting me down. Next time, I'm going to slip a romance novel into your order.
A photograph of four book covers. Clockwise from top left, they are: Adam Becker's _More Everything Forever_, Alan Blackwell's _Moral Codes_; Dan McQuillan's _Resisting AI_; and David Golumbia's _Cyberlibertarianism_.
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM