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Hold. The. Fucking. Line.

Every semester, I tell my students that I have opted their papers out of the AI-scraping tool to fight plagiarism and AI use because they own their writing. And yes, it’s messed up that I can click this well-hidden checkbox on the LMS and they can’t. Classrooms shouldn’t mean surrendering consent.

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

So the solution to defunding the maintenance of our infrastructure is the Batmobile, not taxing the wealthy…got it. Also, my bike could have stopped in time and if not I could hop off. Also a lifesaver. Michael Bay, don’t call me, but if that scene pops off in a movie, I’ll know.

Just keep thinking of all the Establishment Dems who don’t want us to think their Republican colleagues are actually, like, MEAN mean, you guys! Care more about the life of Congresswoman Omar than the feelings of Speaker Johnson, it should not be hard.

Once my theatre students marveled that I let them change and challenge my “vision” for our plays with their own pitches. I asked why I’d want to have ALL the ideas - I can’t have as many good ideas as WE can. They were struck by an adult not pulling rank, but an artist shouldn’t want to be alone.

Interview AI bot that doesn’t have actual judgment: I see this gap on your resume!! Teacher: You mean the summer holiday during the year I switched schools? Also, it’s a myth that teacher do nothing over the summer— AI: rejected!

How dare you try to influence public opinion when you’re not even an AI influencer?? How many followers do you even HAVE, pontiff?? (Don’t say a billion Catholics, no one has that many subscribers)

... and much, much more from MANY voices. When the EA claim "no one has been warning you about this stuff" they are doing a double erasure: 1) Of the people doing the warning 2) Of the actual harms they are warning about bsky.app/profile/emil... >>

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

Americans are resisting - engaging in protest and civil disobedience in a daily basis - the cruel, brutal, illegal, inhumane actions of our gov't. Please amplify their good works, the regime doesn't want you to hear how many decent ordinary Americans refuse to comply.

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

And definitely DEFINITELY don’t float it as an explanation for why the character you are playing in a (historical!) play is behaving badly. Just play a villain and don’t pretend it would easily explain murdering your nephews and taking the throne if the character had been autistic all along.

#facultystrong #unionstrong

"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong!

I think it’s important to think of the impact on their futures…

Tried again to read The Martian Chronicles last year and damn if half the stories weren’t “but the real horror is trusting women — especially overweight women!”

For the "pollinators" prompt for #SolarpunkArtAugust I kept thinking about the bees and butterflies who obsess over our sunflowers, so here's a sketch of their flight paths.

You don’t need a mentor who is afraid of having to treat you like an employee with rights…

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Anybody who started following me today because of my AI hate should know I’m also obsessed with bikes and unions

Also worth noting that her signature line was "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," and the reason she loved Roger was that he was the only one who actually understood that (including every single person who has watched and talked about the movie for four decades)

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

- 'He was determined to prove his theory.' [portrays confirmation bias as heroism; that's not the scientific method - if you want to test the validity of something you formulate a falsifiable hypothesis then propose conditions under which it would be *disproved* - I'm looking at you flat-earthers]

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

The answer to a lot of urban problems is: Slow down the cars -less noise -more reaction time for drivers to see people -pedestrians are 70% less likely to be killed at 20mph than 40mph -car v car or car v building wrecks less violent/injurious -Less shoulder buffer space required at lower speeds

I am querying and trying not to lose heart at it. Last year I started a rejection quilt progress where I buy fabric when rejected and can only make a square when I send a new query. It helps. But I’d be worse at marketing, so I keep at it.

We need all hands on deck for our training Thursday night. Learn what to do when ICE surges in your community.

Does it count if I made the protagonist and love interest of my unwieldy, gritty time travel attempt at a thriller into the loving foster moms in a cozy middle grade story about an involuntary time traveler stuck in the foster system finally finding her people?

In honor of the third day of Pride Month, I remind writers of romance (in all genres) that a Love Triangle requires at least one queer relationship. Otherwise it is a Love Arrowhead or a Love Line (thank you to my students this past semester for the distinction)

When I lived in Amsterdam during the GWB years I once had a guy ask “what the hell is wrong with your president?” and I said “I don’t know- I hate the bastard” and then we got along just fine

I foolishly thought I'd be able to finish this quilt by LAST year's Pride Month, but easily made it for this year! Also, I've turned it into a cape for the upcoming Middletown Pride March -- CSU-AAUP (faculty union) strong!