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jacob riyeff
@riyeff
translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate. ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?
Katılım Mart 2020
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the psychology of grading is funny. i'm genuinely interested in the rough drafts my students submitted, and on the whole they're really interesting. but man do i not want to do these last five. fighting the aversion. partially just b/c i let them submit digitally.
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meanwhile, we're doing serious reading of several epics this term at @MarquetteU.
students from all sorts of majors too.
@MarquetteENGL
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”@MrDanielBuck
Harvard faculty report that they've had to "trim some readings and drop others entirely, switch from novels to short stories, and that it’s difficult to keep assigning reading in the face of increasing student complaints."
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I have just: 1) signed a contract for a new book of #poetry & translations; & 2) sent my private editor the last chunk of the #Propertius translation.
I'll pace myself for a bit since: 1) we have grandchildren for #Easter; 2) we drive back to MA on Monday; & 3) #Petrarch launch is Tuesday.
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@nivenrile really covering the bases here, samuel. 😄
best of luck with it. i've been a loose-leaf tea drinker since my teens, but got hooked on the coffee bean in grad school. yet to kick it, but i've tried several times. oy.
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Day two with tea instead of coffee. Wish me luck.
And before you feel tempted to speak ill of coffee, it’s still a part of me. I’m just doing a dairy-free test and I don’t drink coffee black.
And before you feel tempted to make fun of me for not drinking my coffee black, I like to enjoy my life and will not resort to your self-flagellating ways.
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iuvencus and arator came in today from the library. resisting the urge to avoid all other work and just read them until i'm done. ugh.
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@Tyler_A_Harper @jbillinson said it before and i'll say it again: if "speciesist" means being biased toward human beings over software programs, then i am firmly and unapologetically speciesist.
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@jbillinson I completely unironically believe that social justice rhetoric is going to be deployed to normalize AI sex bots, relationships, friendships, etc. We are already seeing it in bits and pieces. It may fail but Tech World is going to try to make anti-AI bias a taboo kind of bigotry.
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@AndyMasley fair enough, but there are still plenty of us who simply have no desire to continue entrenching our lives with more and more digital infrastructure and reject the projects of these companies.
that is, and i see that this isn't what you're saying, it's not all about functionality.
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Chatbot discourse would be helped if people only knew that many chatbot responses now include links to back up what they're saying. Sometimes they lie about the contents! But you can just verify everything they say.
A consequence of people not touching the tech for 3 years.
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@DaultRadio as usual, i don't say this lightly, but f*%k this whole discourse from insulated misanthropes in power.
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Lies, damn lies, and large language model hallucinations.
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “We are so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence, and yet there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen … There hasn't been a public awareness of the risks.”
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my personal mission statement for the university:
"The function of a university is to teach [one] how to drink tea." ~Thomas Merton, “Learning to Live”"
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@nivenrile wow, looked it up; wild.
thankfully, skunk cabbage doesn't actually smell unless you break the leaves open. even then, it's really not that bad! :)
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@riyeff I have never heard of this before, though I did grow up with a dead horse plant in the side yard. Every few years 'twas a confusing and reeking time when it bloomed.
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when genuinely i just find the glut of digital material i'm supposed to engage with cognitively and neurologically oppressive.
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wrestling quietly today with how in some sectors not liking computers is considered elitist. what a world.
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@jennfrey to reject something as undesirable is not necessarily to be afraid of it. this isn't even a strawman fallacy, it's just inaccurate.
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kind of hard to watch all the takes on the bot "teacher" today. i agree with practically all of it, but as i watch twitter do its thing, i can't help but think "this is why they're doing it, right?" for engagement, to get people piling on and not tending to other things? etc? idk
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@jennfrey careful here, though. bernie is accepting the doomer script hook, line, and sinker: 'ai' is going to take all the jobs and destroy humanity, so we've got to act etc. the premise still portrays these companies and their products as promethean prodigies.
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