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Tweeting & pinning this to explain the thought behind my username more thoroughly

@Feldfrog Can’t wait for your poop hour

The same way we have massive undersea cables that connect everyone to the internet, we should have massive undersea pipelines that connect all the world’s sewage into one big poop network

@Magdaview12 @NewYorker @naomirwolf Take this out of your bio

@NewYorker @naomirwolf Why not learn to use the tool to write more quickly and efficiently ? Not copy, but learn to use creatively.. Struggling with PowerPoint or Word technicalities, pretty outdated apps of the past, is not education just because you did that in the 90s.

Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: ‘Help me write,’ ” Winter writes. “If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is ‘Help me visualize.’ She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: ‘Help me edit.’ ‘Beautify this slide.’ ” Proponents of generative A.I. in elementary and middle schools argue that such early exposure will foster digital-media literacy, and prepare them for a future in which most professions are steeped in A.I. But the technology also poses significant cognitive and social-emotional risks to young people. Read Winter’s report about A.I.’s infiltration into schools—and what it could mean for young minds: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NSWuBG

@Magdaview12 @NewYorker @naomirwolf BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE IN SCHOOL TO LEARN TO WRITE. FOR FUCKS SAKE. You should have to master the basics of the skill before advancing to any tools. We had to draw graphs by hand to understand them before we could us a graphing calculator.

@adarshisit @handbagdeb Humor isn’t *required* to be inappropriate. Humor can be appropriate or inappropriate; at its core it is a surprise. Someone said something you didn’t expect. Even that’s not all inclusive of jokes, but that’s a good starting point for someone still learning, like yourself

@handbagdeb Humour isn't meant to be appropriate, in my opinion.

It kind of breaks the contract of a comedic event. You can roast the other guy, but if you specifically act disgusted by something because it is inappropriate, in a platform where everyone goes to bask in the transgressive inappropriateness, definitionally, then it's not on.

@awstar11 I’ll offer kindness 🤗 Pretty easy to do when I already offer him money monthly

Some day Ken will need kindness and find very little offered

@S_W_Somerville @garsincognito @jonfavs @mkhammer “let's not relitigate that issue” My guy, YOU brought this up because YOU wanted to debate. Don’t feign ignorance when this conversation is exactly what you wanted. Regardless, his thumb is out in the photo which makes it clear from the still image it is a wave and not a salute

@garsincognito @jonfavs @mkhammer Except in the context of his speech, where it's not clearly a fascist salute, but let's not relitigate that issue. If everybody who throws their hands up in the air is a Nazi, who needs Totenkopf tattoos.

I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.

@Mariofeds219163 @1kouhai Speaking as someone who aced those dumbass tests throughout elementary school, being able to flip shapes around in your head and reading a grade level or two above does not make you ND There’s overlap, sure, but “gifted” & “ND” are not the same thing

@1kouhai this app really just fucking loves punching down on ND people don't they

this is the cope i detest the most

@JohnMalverne @jkbjournalist That’s not true and ignores the changing media landscape where the drive for short form content to compete for ever shortening attention spans, incl TikTok which you somewhat ironically allude to. 100s of other variables affect the decline of newspapers more than what you said

@jkbjournalist "journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair" <-- If that was true you wouldn't be going out of business. Tick tock.

I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@SnipSnapPolitic @alexbronzini If he got a PhD-level job out of high school, did he need college? Maybe Stanford sniffed him out as a candidate who would attend just to become a “Stanford dropout” for Bay Area start up clout. Academics aren’t the full picture

Translation: "We don't want Asian kids who fight back when we discriminate against them." Stanley Zhong had a 1590 SAT, 4.42 GPA, and Google hired him for a PhD-level job out of high school. Sixteen schools rejected him. SCOTUS ruled the practice unconstitutional. Now lawyers like Alex defend the rejections by mocking the kid for suing. The mask is off.

US college admissions are dumb and insane, but I gain a little faith in the system every time I hear one of these stories. If admissions officers can see past a flawless academic record and identify someone who will sue them over a rejection, something is working

@SnowHimbo I googled a comedy club and Google gave me the address while the AI results told me it didn’t exist.

Yeah I'm sure this taking over will be fine

@coryfromphilly We hated Kenney, just cause you weren’t in the trenches doesn’t mean there weren’t any trenches

@factswithheart @GovPressOffice 86 means cancel, you dumbass snowflake

@GovPressOffice Interesting number combo there! Really isn’t a funny situation though. What James did was wrong and you know that. If a rep would have posted something like that you all would be all over it! Laws should go both ways not just to the side you don’t agree with.

42069…. hope we don’t get indicted

@scrote_goat @CarolLeonnig 86 means cancel, not murder

@CarolLeonnig Kinda justified when someone tries to murder you every 7 weeks or so

NEWWWWW -- Former FBI director James Comey indicted, source tells me, for threats in posting image of "8647" shells at beach in the Carolinas

@jonatanpallesen @davidshor That’s not it. They’re more likely to not want to have any responsibility for the deaths or others. Also more likely to assume most people would not be total assholes & would likely press blue

@davidshor Blue buttoners far more likely to dislike dangerous situations: voluntarily put themselves in a situation with enormous risk of death

We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!

@samlymatters The most notable “defining event” for our current era is whether or not you grew up w/ the internet already in your house. Digital natives vs those who saw the internet get introduced was a pretty defining split. I’m sure there are other defining events but that sticks out to me

I’m joking, but I am kind fascinated by the construct of generations. Of course someone born in 1994 is going to have more in common with someone born in 1997 than 1980 despite 97 being Gen Z. I think using defining events as opposed to “every generation is 15 years” makes sense.

I’m a younger millennial (92) and it was kind of a bummer how quickly Gen Z took over the cultural narrative after COVID. I miss killing industries! I miss being blamed for everything by the Times.

@cc_catholics @Mister_Bluesky2 @gatorsafterdark “Highest power bills” *laughs in San Diegan* I used to live in the northeast & libs made Connecticutt what it is. Only thing I agree with you on is their underrated pizza

If you think paying the highest power bills in the country while the state overrides our local zoning is "winning," then we just have different standards. They are turning a state with a great history into an expensive waiting room for people looking for a U-Haul to Florida. Calling me a "moron" doesn't change the fact that the people actually born here are leaving as fast as they can. Are the Redditors out in full force tonight or what?

Keep in mind there are literally people from Connecticut

@Greggxcrwly @mr_saltz Cars aren't necessary. Philly was the easiest city I’ve ever lived in without a car

@mr_saltz 😂 the cars are necessary for those same people to live and prosper in that neighborhood the novelty of inconveniencing everyone at the expense of basic infrastructure is not a matter of serious debate It’s a childish tantrum

Another beautiful day where we close the Ave to cars. Everyone has a nice time, businesses make a billion dollars. And we can never do it again because the people who matter in this city cannot handle losing some parking spots or taking the bus

@SockTiger Crazy that they’ve been recorded killing more humans than orcas I guess orcas would have an easier time hiding the bodies

every time an Elephant makes the news for killing someone, they always have a pretty valid reason

@cuntadelic Framing and hanging this in my office to point at when my boss talks to me about how late I am

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made