Cat Clifford

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

This is a RIDE. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

A haunted house where every room is a different criteria you forgot to assess for your classes

The Disney Channel in the 80s and early 90s showed all kinds of quirky Canadian movies, and this one disturbed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

Honestly, the asexuality part is really important. (Polyamory too for legal reasons especially.) People always demand why asexuality requires protection, but it’s already happening in many religiously conservative places—it’s being labeled a deviant “ideology”.

Kit hopes you’re having a nice Sunday. She wants to show you her carrot.

Love this thread. This is how I feel, too.

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Fiona Apple Paramore Florence + the Machine Ani DiFranco Sarah McLachlan

A real "what am I doing with my life" kind of score line as a fan

So many academics signing that open letter in support of the Racist of the Month with their whole chest is not really surprising but it’s still the worst.

Oh this is fun

I will continue to make my fliers and PowerPoints a little shitty so people will know I didn’t use AI

Welp.

I just think she's the cutest

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

If your loudest opinion on women’s sports is about preventing transgender people from participating, you aren’t engaged in women’s sports enough to know what “protecting” them would actually mean or count as a “good-faith person who cares”. That’s not care, it’s ignorance.

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

The “golden age” for corporate sciences has been a “golden age” for corporate humanities for a while. It’s important for humanists and scientists who are disinclined to participate in this takeover to see that we are in this together.

"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

Love this piece by Lorna Wallace! Feels like all early modern drama scholars I know regularly have the experience of being accosted by these conspiracy theories.

All of this. There are a handful of solidly mid network shows I watch just because I like how consistent they are.

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

Feels like the $1.7 billion slush fund should make the “but muh taxes” folks more angry than it seems to be.

College students are so fun

5 goals is 2 games is absurd regardless of the competition #Chawinga

If a person has to be told to not give their bank account info to OpenAI, it's probably too late for them tbh

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

Man, I'll tell you what: I love those messy, meandering essay drafts from my students because they show thinking rather than product. Messy drafts are a middle finger to the smooth, soulless perfection of AI.