It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.
On the bright side, I remain hopeful that most kids out there are making appropriate use of these tools by prompting them to output lists of obscure regional names for human genitals, phonetic spellings of the sounds of various types of fart, and unsparing takedowns of each others' moms
The student writes about a unifying human need, good or ill, for validation. They witness it in a small child. They reveal their own feelings by offering them as an assessment for the reader to accept, reject or sit with. The algorithm tells them to replace all that with a creepy, legalistic evasion
But really, this "improvement" computed by the llm is such hilariously worse writing. It substitutes a couple solid germanic words with $10 synonyms for no reason, enforces and leads with the passive voice, and can't even call out the sentence fragment. It also misses, and erases, the original point
It is enraging that schools pay degenerate linkedin addicts for algorithms that gaslight students into writing down their thoughts in the form of press releases. Because that would be such a good writing exercise! They could simply pass out old @theonion.com clips and get a unit or two out of it
This isn't what SCOTUS *said* (they said nothing) BUT the Court's "passivity"-deciding not to decide or say anything - helps the executive branch aggressively characterize & implement the Court's orders.
My draft paper "Passive Vices" goes into this (Law Review editors- it's looking for a home!)
SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
“Get in loser we’re doing cartesian dualism with a bachelors degree in math“
AI is basically looksmaxxing for The Mind instead of The Body and that’s why it sucks so hard
Floristry coach: Time to put the pedal to the metal bitches
Assistant floristry coach: Yes, and the petal to the medal!
I'd add c) if this weren't manufacturing a hype cycle that's keeping their share prices afloat. They basically have staked all the money on us believing this
The phrase “who is responsible for the deaths of st least 9.4 million people” should appear inside commas every time the names of Musk, Vought, Trump and Rubio are mentioned. They perpetrated a mass slaughter.
“Cultural spectrum dominance.”
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
STEPHEN MILLER: so you've gone through all of these files and made sure there's nothing incriminatory about Trump or his friends and associates, right
KASH PATEL: *standing in line at berghain dressed like the Ikea monkey* oh yeah definitely
CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
Feels weird now when an articulate and emotionally stable adult talks to all of us
While there is anecdotal evidence of AI affecting layoffs, the macroeconomic data does not support this narrative fortune.com/2026/01/07/a...
The behavior of trump lackeys only ever makes sense if you assume a web of disciplining blackmail
You should do a quick Google search about the Block family and their connection to Donald Trump and why they fired a bunch of good folks at the PG during Trump 1 and you'll have a clear explanation for why they wrote about how much money they're losing
Every tech company needs to be seized and nationalized
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Opinion column from David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
I have been especially startled to see Ro Khanna, a House Democrat and one of the most impressive politicians in America, use the phrase “the Epstein class” in his public statements. In an interview with my colleague David Leonhardt this week, Khanna explained that he had gotten the phrase from voters who asked him if he was on the side of “forgotten Americans” or “the Epstein class.”
Photo of David Brooks at dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, from files released by the House Oversight Committee.
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
Headline: ProPublica management wants 100% discretion over when and how to use AI Supplementary text: The organization rejected our proposal that ensures staff will not be replaced by AI and requires labeling AI-generated content
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the New York Times opinion piece, "There’s a Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of Young Men" by Ross Douthat reading, "When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. This was the watchword of the era, implying that any claim of anti-white discrimination is really just a resentful reaction to a long overdue balancing of the scales. The most important aspect of Savage’s argument is the use of data to suggest that, no, the apparent discrimination was probably real discrimination, yielding hiring patterns aimed at redress rather than just equal treatment."
The idea that equality (the powerless getting some power) involves redress (giving the powerless some power) is apparently beyond the comprehension of the new york times' marquee conservative intellectual
Movie you’ve watched more than six times, hard mode (no Star Wars or Trek, no Pixar, no LOTR, no Disney, no Marvel)
[The self-referential pick; I have like five of these.]
