Stay Woke, Public School Teachers - Woke is the opposite of being asleep. It means being aware of racists like Ron DeFascist and his funders who oppose civil rights and a healthy democracy. https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2023/03/12/stay-woke-public-school-teachers/ via @StevenSinger3 #woke #Defascist
Now that's what I call Hurdy-Gurdy!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3NlRsvr3J78
Thank you, Ezra, for a magnificent specimen of #MoralPanice and the hubris of the present tense. He portends doom but never says how it comes. He ignores the history and lessons of technological adaptation past.
This Changes Everything https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html?smid=tw-share
Search or fabrication?
https://www.aiweirdness.com/search-or-fabrication/
Janelle Shane of the wonderful AI Weirdness catches the #ChatGPT #BingAI in lots of lies / hallucinations in reply to perfectly straightforward questions.
This bobcat spent two hours hunting in our yard yesterday. Such a privilege to be in its presence for so long.
#bobcat #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #NewHampshire
A basking chukar partridge, seen in Hawai'i. It looks peaceful, but it had just tried rushing us in a parking lot for snacks. #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #birdsofmastodon
It may be silly and the graphics stubbornly ancient, but I gotta say things like the Darkmoon Faire are what keep me playing #worldOfWarcraft after like 15 years, and after having played and left many other games in the same general genre.
Nothing else I've seen combines gameplay and humor and lorecrafting in the same way. #games #videogames
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