Dr. J. Franklin Williamson

Eh, there’s probably several things they didn’t plan out or workshop before pulling the trigger.

Maternal GF: Son of Italian immigrants, went to Harvard but dropped out to work (help the fam). Chemist for a carpet manufacturer. Maternal GM: AFAIK was trained as either ornithologist or plant scientist. Worked for US Forest Service when I was a kid, wrote column on bird-watching for the AJC.

Paternal GF: WWII vet, worked as bookkeeper/accountant at pimento packing company. Retired around the time I was born. Paternal GM started but did not finish college (b/c marriage); stayed at home until my dad and aunt were out of the house, then worked for the USPS for a stint in the 1980s.

Apparently, so is ICE?

If he admits we are at war, he has to admit Congress has abandoned its duty. And maybe he shouldn’t be Speaker

Whaa??

Just gonna suggest that rigorous education and uncritical talk of “heroes” might not necessarily be the same thing. No, I’m going to say they definitely are different things.

Really wish we could get a do-over with the internet

Thank you for including me, @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social 🙂

Wasn’t the situation room underneath the (now destroyed) East Wing?

So does this mean no one person is in charge?

“Bought off by Muslims?”

Yeah but do you think any of these morons in DC has ever read the Iliad?

One step away from Epic Failure

Probably needs to give back that peace prize, right?

Too bad we can’t just delete the Internet and start over.

Guess they are done being the “arsenal of democracy,” because they clearly don’t like it when certain people vote.

Starting to think this is the point AI bros and budget hawks are both angling for. And college admins are too scared or too dense to see it

Maybe he’s not good at learning?

Amen!

They probably see all of human society (aside from themselves) as invisible labor in the background, much as women’s uncompensated and unrecognized (but vital) labor was devalued and discounted for much of human history. These dudes dig “Western Civ” after all, but not sure they did all the reading

3) therefore if AI is just a faster version of a human brain, shouldn’t AI companies still have to compensate authors and creators whose material has been used to “educate” the AI?

I think you all know the answer already but I don’t think the techbros understand this

Ok by this logic, AI and people are the same, just that AI is faster. Setting aside my serious (!) reservations about this assertion, does it not logically follow that:
1) humans go to school to learn,
2) teachers are paid to teach, textbook authors are paid to write textbooks, in support of (1)…

💯 agree. “Human capital” for these monsters is just one more expense to be trimmed. We will all soon be Luddites, consciously or not

The real rub for educators (my wheelhouse) is, I can see how AI might help a student create flashcards or practice questions, or give feedback on an essay draft. But those are things I already do (or teach students to do)! Seems like pro-AI is really just pro-shortcuts or cost-reduction.

That sucks. It’s like anything creative or arts-oriented, educationally-oriented, and I’m sure much more, is already kind of suspicious in too many Americans’ minds. Then say they can build a house with just a computer, make a tv show with just a computer, get an education with just a computer…

This is what they took from us

All Your Base Are Belong To Us YouTube video by zuchini

I know I’m a few days late but I feel like my generation just really had a moment, together reflecting on the early days of the Internet, before social media, algorithms, and rage baiting ruined it all.

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UK: We are holding our leaders accountable for their actions.

US: