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Oh but let’s spend more time thinking critically about AI

This is going to be a banger.

Preorder @ceciliarikap.bsky.social

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Hair ice formations on rotten wood branches

fungus aesthetics: hair ice creations, courtesy of Exidiopsis effusa this morning

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

kids, I beg you *please* stop reading those g00gle AI "overviews"

A new retro-ish poster for THE SECRET AGENT from Bangers & Mash Designs.

“The Secret Agent Network,” a series programmed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is on from January 7 through 13 @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

please watch it in a theatre if you can. I promise it’s worth it

Very excited.

Orange mosscaps

Not sure how to put this but I almost miss the ‘hey, couldn’t come to class, what did I miss’ student emails. At least you felt interpellated. The AI generated apologies with 3 paragraphs of nauseating prose feel like staring into the void.

That’s really kind! But seriously, learned a lot while translating that book. Also: recommend rewatching Gosford Park after reading it.

a flock of Canada geese on a grass field near Jericho Beach

a very Vancouver sort of evening

Today! Register&join us for a talk by @loriemerson.net on alternative and forgotten networks and the futures they might hold.

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Woke up to that upenn hack email thing. Isn’t it ironic.

Three jack-o'-lanterns displayed on a porch, the middle one carved out to read ‘67’

Haven’t these numbers suffered enough?

Cybernetic Forests Sifting Through the Techno-Cultural Debris.

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i love playing the AI-overview-quote-guessing game. Enjoying the assertiveness here "this phrase is almost certainly a quote or a strong opinion about xyz" Nope.

Torn between going as “experience designer” or “judgment coach” this Halloween 🤔

Yes, on vessels made of brânzǎ! 🙂

It’s Dacians of course who first brought corn to Europe - I’m frankly surprised you don’t mention that in your book, Alex

You wouldn’t believe the thousands of likes and reposts 😖

Stumbled on this acct on insta: what is this casserole of pseudo-linguistic Romanianist nonsense? I can assure you that “Balkan and Dacian” 🤪 do not in fact “come alive in harmony” when I speak.

black rabbit on grass meadow

Striking that Lindt bunny/ Dieter Roth Karnickel pose

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

Wooden bench against green grassy patch and concrete sidewalk

“one and three benches”
Not quite a Joseph Kosuth, but look at the mossy patches underneath this bench, pretending to be a second shadow.

i guess everyone here is as excited as me about this term yay.

Tell me what you're teaching this/next week.

portrait of Walter Benjamin as a child in hussar uniform

toy catalogue page with picture and description of child's hussar uniform

A couple of years ago, I found toddler Benjamin's hussar outfit in an 1890s toy catalogue (16.50 marks, pricey!) Still best online find ever...

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