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Jun 15
Despite considerable cultural, financial, and social momentum/support, video games have produced surprisingly few artifacts of moral or aesthetic significance.
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Jun 12
Reject the man cave.
Embrace another bedroom for more kids.
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Jun 11
There's no way for this not to sound rude, but y'all need to go read an actual poem by a human. This machine poem is awful, and it's embarrassing that you like it.
x.com/emollick/status/206476ā¦
Jun 10
Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."
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Jun 8
I had this exact experience as well!
As a kid I thought ātwoās company, threeās a crowdā meant itās more fun to have more people. So Iād always invite a third person along somewhere and go āthreeās a crowd!ā Wasnāt until I was like 17 that my mom told me itās meant to be a bad thing. Sorry Iām an extrovert at heart.
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Jun 5
I know this is all engagement bait or whatever, but why does Dostoevsky always get put down as some kind of depressing nihilist, when his two most famous works are about everlasting love and the potential of mankind?
Jun 4
Reviving my greatest artistic creation. Tag yourself, Iām āSad Hates Everyone.ā
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Jun 5
I mean the answer probably is that most people only read āThe Grand Inquisitorā chapter but still
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This will include papers from @SterlingCLife's own Chair of Language and Literature, Dr. @LukeBrake and familiar IFF faces @GCSalter and Elizabeth Jennings, as well as a wonderful reflective paper from Dr. Wilhelm.
Today, at 3pm (CT) some of our presenters from our Spring conference will be reprising their papers for this encore event entitled "Sterling Treasure". All are welcome to join the zoom call whether you want to hear the papers again or for the first time!
facebook.com/share/17RqbYY93ā¦
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May 29
I do not mind the Disney Adult too much (not my cup of tea, but it seems fine).
I am pretty tired of how threatening some public spaces are to my children in terms of public indecency, especially with pornographic images on t-shirts/cars.
May 28
Okay. Ban childless adults from Disney World and other kid-centric spaces and letās have a chat.
And while weāre at it, letās talk about the number of times Iāve had to sit next to a table of adults loudly spewing profanity, which has become more common than a free bread basket.
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May 28
This is anti-human and anti-culture and neglects the real culprit of the decline of low end dining: gigantic TVs
No one wants a romantic dinner ruined by a screaming child at the next table.
According to a new survey, 75% of Americans say restaurants should offer some kind of adults-only dining experience to avoid unruly kids.
That includes child-free sections, restrictions during late-night hours, and quieter dining environments focused more on the experience than family-friendly chaos.
Community note
The 75% support figure for adults-only dining is from a multi-country consumer survey across the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgiumānot US-only. lightspeedhq.com/news/75-of-conā¦
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May 26
Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls
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Church coffee hour depends on complementarity.
For the parents, an Apollonian hour of conversation and swapping prayer request.
BECAUSE
For the kids, a Dionysian hour of donuts, running around like dervishes, and screaming.
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May 19
Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.
May 17
Letās be honest. All these people upset about college students using AI are just jealous they didnāt have it when they were in college. They just want them to suffer like they did. Itās an old story: āWell if I suffered, they should too.ā Itās also a morally repugnant position.
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May 19
We can solve the fertility crisis by showing people charts and then yelling at them for not having enough babies
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May 19
Genuinely hopeful that this discourse resolves the extremely embarrassing citation bloat in academic journals.
Itās unnecessary, vain, and needlessly discourages grad students.
May 15
So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?
Community note
Yes. Academics (like Miller himself) are responsible for the work they produce, including accurate citation practices and thorough vetting of sources. Millerās previous and current institutions have policies about this:
smith.edu/your-campus/ofā¦
college.uchicago.edu/student-servicā¦
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May 17
Lots of mean stereotypes about Tech researchers getting validated rn
May 15
No, you are supposed to obsessively check everything line by line after any of your coauthors make any update to any of your papers.
Major PIs will author more than 15 papers a year with several tens of coauthors. Now they are supposed to check everything line by line at every single update without failure rate.
If the failure rate of any of this is 0.5-1%, a PI who publishes 15 papers a year or more will likely be banned in a few years at best
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May 16
The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.
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May 14
I barely survived ātelling writers they have to read is gatekeeping,ā I donāt think I can live through ātelling writers they have to write is gatekeepingā
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May 14
the real question is how often in Nolanās Odyssey we will see Matt Damon burn thigh bones wrapped in fat for the gods
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I guarantee youāre a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage.
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May 11
Look I know this is a tired conversation, but I am still baffled how people could have seen Rings of Power and thought "this is designed to make you hate Tolkien."
It was more aligned with Tolkien's vision than Jackson's work by a country mile.
May 10
The purpose of Christopher Nolanās take on The Odyssey is to make you hate Homer, just like The Rings of Power was designed to make you hate Tolkien.
Ad fontes!
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