Fritz Swanson

A student confessed that they produced an essay draft with AI, but that they had intended to revise it later so that it would "sound like" them, and therefore they intended to do right. I feel as though I have failed this person so so utterly. What a work "sounds like" has no bearing on its value.

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They automated our walking, and we grew weak. They automated our growing and we grew fat. They automated our singing and we went silent. They automated our loving and we've gone lonely. Language is thought, and thought is language. When they automated our language, we have NOTHING LEFT.

Remember “bread machines”? They were a purpose built stand mixer/oven combo. You dumped in all the ingredients, and the machine mixed, kneaded, proofed and baked. But every loaf came out the exact shape of the machine, with the mixing paddle shoved up the ass of the loaf. Anyway, AI and your brain.

I’m overwhelmed by this. Why do the boring work of cultivating joy in your life when we’ve just invented heroin? Automate your happiness!

Walking the line outside the Trump rally in Corinth, I was reminded that more unites us than divides us here in Mississippi. I heard from folks who want to get foreign money out of our elections, put an end to flock cameras, keep our border secure, and make sure our veterans are taken care of.

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

Same.

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Apple HomeView from 26 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Au...

Necropolitical is a word. A form of political power that functions by bringing about the social and literal deaths of individuals and populations through direct action or deadly neglect. Popularised by Achille Mbembe in 2003. www.dictai.org/w/necropolit...

30,000 years ago, a wolf tentatively approaches a fire…

Necropolitical is the new word.

This is why you will need national legislation. And more coherent legislation rather than one-time levies. But state efforts are critical because they put the topic into the conversation. And generally 'neener neener' isn't good messaging from the billionaire class.

Incredible report from @aaup.org & @amnesty-usa.bsky.social on the vast bipartisan repression of campus speech on Palestine by administrators and the police: www.aclu.org/publications...

I’m just going to wish an Ossoff/el Sayed presidential run into existence. Or el Sayed/Ossoff.

Another word for brotherhood is fraternity.

Trump seeking support of Russian podcaster who invaded Ukraine

A camp where people die as a consequence of policy decisions is a death camp. Neglect at scale is a policy decision. Disease and starvation were key components of The Holocaust.

I'm not sure I'd have Abdul cook my hamburger. Because he burned this guy pretty bad.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Speaking of gratitude, someone who was gifted a senate seat and the vice presidency by sugar daddy should probably show a bit more

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

Has Putin promised Trump a sanctuary after he gets impeached?

Masculinity can be sharp without being cruel, competitive without being domineering. Elbows up, for justice!

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious

Thomas Paine would have blown up data centers.

It’s crazy how many years she’s gotten away with this bullshit. It’s crazy how long it’s taken to frame this question and force her to answer it.

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

These guys have such an ULTRON hard on.

Ossoff: "I want to remind folks across Georgia that while you pay more for everything as a result of Donald Trump's incompetence, the president and his family are enriching themselves to the tune of billions of dollars ... we urgently need to restore checks and balances"

Every skill decline study that shows how AIs erode you is an indictment of power itself. Think about how eroded and emaciated a CEO is, who never has to do anything they don’t want to do. Of course they love AI. They can’t even imagine what we’ve earned. They can’t see their own frailty.

Can everyone who advocates for AI, please, feel profound shame right now?

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.