"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate

don't want to beef with the specific person who posted this but don't understand why so many people are reluctant to understand that, actually, to quite a lot of people, the idea of just staying at home alone all week fucking sucks? wanting to leave the house and talk to people is normal!

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

If anyone actually knows how to eradicate this newly self-installed Copilot thing from Microsoft Word on a Mac, I'd very much like to hear about it.

"actually knows" meaning actually knows, please

This bit of the MI5 chief's annual threat summary has been living in my head rent-free since October, now it can be in all your heads, too.

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)