maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world

i like saying that history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes…

but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation

“those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders.” you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you’ll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true

Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about

and the third is autism spectrum lisorder!

yeah but there’re more -isms and -phobias that are enabled on that website, feels a bit odd to single out one bigotry amongst so many

i mean, we have the solutions to a lot of problems already

traffic? public trains

hunger? just like, feed people

global warming? reduce fossil fuel usage and stop poisoning the oceans

homeless? literally so many empty homes, put people in them???

and we’ve had many smart people create step by step plans for all of these!

the thing is… i guess rich people want a solution that doesn’t involve them paying for something that’s good not just for them but for others? so all those plans fail at step 1 - have empathy

okay so -

the anakin image was reposted from twitter to tumblr by someone who’s name is cropped out, then someone reblogged that post and added the speech bubble. when you reblog a post on tumblr if you add anything to it it’ll display under the first one like this

"user1:

[image]

user2:

speech bubble"

so the speech bubble contains their username because that’s just how the website is structured

would you like someone who doesn’t know how to put together a drill to use said drill unsupervised in your home? regardless of the gender of the drilling enthusiast - i wouldn’t want them doing that

is this loss?

he’s like 1/8 or 1/16 native, so despite being far removed from indigenous people and culture white americans have a tendency to see any claim to cultural heritage as valid, so the outrage wasn’t as big as normal

photoshop & davinci resolve

i am perfectly aware of that, but if you only want to view the .webp file outside of your browser, you don’t need to convert it properly, just rename the extansion

.webp has virtually no support when it comes to software/apps that can edit images, it’s always either a “file format not supported”, or absolutely no reaction or acknowledgement that you tried doing something

also if you only view them and don’t care about editing them you can straight up rename the *.webp to *.jpg

it’ll still open as a jpg outside of your browser, but it apps that you’d use for image editing still won’t want it

my best idea would be going old school with in person written & oral testing, since clearly nothing digital is of any help anymore. or perhaps require multiple digital WIP versions to be submitted? would also be getting the students into a good habit of making backups of their work. or maybe every essay should come with a director’s commentary (a more loose style reflective essay on the research and work done)

o.o holy shit- i mean that’s a valid move, using AI for a handwritten piece sounds like a pain in the ass, but so does just writing 10 pages by hand, AI or not!

i’m glad i got through my higher education marginally before the AI boom hit (i graduated 3 years ago). i only had Turnitin yell “PLAGIARISM???” at me when i used a common phrase that another student used at some point somewhere (think - “The research suggests…”, or sometimes even the page numbers), good times good times

sure maybe it was tested with data already known to the researchers, but that’s not a real world test, that’s still a fully controlled environment. and the researchers, being human, aren’t perfect, the data about what the AI was meant to predict could’ve slipped into the training data. using historic data to predict slightly less historic data is a good first step, and it’s of course exciting! but we’re not done here

nobody can read AI code after its been trained, so until all possibility of human error can be fully disspelled by continuous testing it in real time and having the AI actually predict events that come to be - it’s a could, not a can.

i much prefered writing notes on paper but i’d cry if i had to write an essay by hand, i hope those students aren’t torturing themselves this way

“can” and not “could”? you haven’t had a chance to test it yet but already claim to have invented a machine that can predict the future a decade in advance? it better be the journalists that picked that word because if the scientists are saying that, then their funding would do better somewhere else

that usually means acknowledging that trans people exist and are the gender they say they are

scary stuff /s

he was caught days later with an entire manifesto and also evidence placing him at the scene in his backpack, how convenient! :)