@brashtech
Born to love 🪐, forced to live on 🌎. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer. Goal: Spiral back into control. My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
IOWA CITY, SEPT. 16 You were driving your Cybertruck south on N Dubuque Street past the 1-80 ramps, and I was driving north. I didn't see your face, and I'm worried you didn't see my middle finger. Just wanted to make sure you got the message.
Okay first of all that is a gorgeous instrument.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
The tiresome kayfabe of "I'm not calling you a liar, but, regardless what you intended and the process you went through, this paper is indistinguishable from deliberate plagiarism, and there are penalties for that."
I luff mine. They are good performers in my heavily-shaded flower garden.
Idiotic levels of inefficiency.
how I am CACKLING
Sounds like the excuses that students give for good old-fashioned plagiarism, where they claim they were using word-for-word copy&paste as placeholders and were planning to rewrite those parts but missed them or forgot. So, it was either rank dishonesty or absolutely terrible writing practices. 🤷♀️
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
My eyes refuse to parse his name whenever I see it.
How many email accounts do you think I want to have?
Keegan Michael Key as the Substitute Teacher. A black man with a mustache in a short-sleeved white shirt and a tan tie scrutinizes a clipboard. Notes from a biology class are written on the chalkboard behind him. The Comedy Central logo appears on a pink bar to the left.
mar-KWAN-ee?
I am in awe. Truly.
Damnit.
Film, journalism, broadcasting, digital storytelling. Media Studies at Beloit College lets students explore media from every angle.
Create it. Critique it. Understand how it shapes the world.
🎬: https://ow.ly/NSai50YpHcf
you cant make art with ai prompts because art is subversive and ai is a product and you cant subvert a product by consuming it
"African or European?"
I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER
According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.
Follow-up comment on how bad it is on the ground at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 🔭
Eisenhower
We canceled research training for undergraduates because America needed the money for this instead.
More of this, please!!!
Them: Fight Ice with Dice
Me: Go on.
I dunno, I think they’re just lazy AF. Prove they’re not.
This is Kessler Syndrome accelerationism and not valid praxis.
Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.
This means that people DO NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO PAY ITS DEBTS.
