Nate A

AI? In this political economy?

We resent universities as proof that a touch‘o’socialism is good actually so we blame them for all of capitalism’s externalities.

2, but that’s because I know a literal puppeteer at Netflix that worked on one of his shows. Score another point for Baudrillard I guess

Bragging to my relatives that I could identify all the pictures with a stop light when logging on to my favorite website

From his lips to God’s ears

By this reasoning it would be fine for me to accept papers written by a student’s parent or roommate so long as I was reasonably confident that the student had dictated the prompt and checked the work. Seriously, whose facility with argument or structure would I be assessing in that scenario?

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

If you’re going well me your AI is conscious you need to lead with an explanation of what it’s like to be a bat

I’m married but I have a Bachelor’s degree so I guess I can call myself a bachelor

This is true, but I genuinely believe that most mainstream comics would be better if they were loosely penciled at at a 2 page a day clip and inked twice as fast

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

It was totally possible in 80s

One thing I miss about smoking? The loitering. My friends and I could really loiter when we smoked. Once we got a ticket!

Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.

awoke this morning with a Vision

This explains a lot. When discussing AI agents with other faculty it’s the folks teaching in fields tasked with producing bureaucratic subjects (Business, Education) that have been the first to bring AI into their classrooms.

I made lots of money trading* on sports that I can now buy a new water pipe** used specifically for tobacco*** at the local smoke shop

The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.

A lot of people seem to think that reason, intelligence, and consciousness are widely agreed upon terms for well understood phenomena. Either that or they’re just sloppy thinkers.

“American Intelligence “ (AI) is sitting right there. Dude has truly lost a step

it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam

This is a great read!

You can compare the addictive properties of social media to cigarettes, but I’ve never enjoyed using social media as much as I enjoyed smoking cigarettes

Occasional reminder that pedagogy should be eccentric and calibrated to the uniquely bizarre access you have managed to cobble together in order to crack open a complicated form of understanding.

Next we do Milgram!

I call dibs on the formula for the grease they use to slick the pans

Sometimes the semiotic square articulates a relation of concepts that are synthesized in things; sometimes it articulates a relation among things that resolve as concepts. How can it be both? Because the semiotic square is a cootie catcher

It's not hard to understand why appeals to the "center" (which just means the right wing) come at the cost of votes on the left. This seems baffling to many of the "political strategy" minds on here whose apparent plan is to have their cake and eat it

Telling students they can use AI sometimes and for certain things makes as much sense as telling students in a health class that unprotected sex is fine so long as it’s “just the tip”

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

Plisskenas Gauna Išangės Zondą - Žalio Vyno [Lithauania? Alternative Folk, Trip-Hop] (1996) not a lot of info https://redd.it/mk8oz3 https://youtu.be/e0AxVRP-WP8

“Loveless” by My Bloody Valentine

Whatever, never mind

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Rhetorician: To say that the cup is half full depends on the possibility that it’s half empty

lol, someone's check didn't clear

I’m not gonna let that crusty bitch ruin getting a bunch of dumb tattoos at a rapid clip because you just need to feel something

Cool to see a bunch of folks on my timeline using a suicide as a data point for their pet theories

If Woke 1 was as bad as these dumbasses say we’d be doing our own struggle sessions and we wouldn’t need them to make it happen

Weird, it's almost like these "prediction markets" are just the random bets of inveterate gamblers who are reacting to breaking news without any actual insight or skill

centrists who only read each other have convinced themselves that woke 1 was essentially stalinism

She’s running, so I’m trying to get used to these discursive moves. But it’s a bracing reminder of just how retrograde our current political moment is

When I lived in Pittsburgh (circa 2010) the mayor drove around town while a news crew filmed him complaining about the potholes. It seemed weird at the time, but it presaged the next decade of the Democratic Party’s approach to politics

There are probably worse candidates for a compact edition, but given the original dimensions and lettering of 200AD (not even going to get into the problem of downsizing the art) I’m hard pressed to think of any

Counterpoint: If you spot a movie trope you’re the hack, but if spot 3 movie tropes the filmmaker is the hack

A bar sign in Japan