Jennifer Slack

Emerita Professor  Cultural Studies, Technology, AI, Environment Pro-Democracy Anti-MAGA Pastel painter  Rural Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA

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2024-09-15 01:00:02

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This is such a beautiful image!

2024-09-11 13:21:32

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This is worse than creepy; this is rapey.

2024-09-04 11:23:42

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Are you going to write about this issue?

2024-09-03 19:41:59

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Good for you and the way you have dealt with your circumstances. I have been able to support myself since I was 17; that's how I have managed, but was always able to work. I have -- at last -- retired and have reasonable ss and savings. My husband and I are thankfully fine. I worry very much about those in more challenging circumstances.

2024-09-03 14:08:50

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I am not sure how they so conveniently ignore Trump's many "sins." (Their term)

2024-09-03 14:06:58

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Yes, absolutely. An insistence on a single (male) family earner in a trad family would severely disadvantage many families financially and have serious implications for the production of all manner of (necessary) goods and services. These people don't think things though.

2024-09-03 02:53:28

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Ha!!!
I have enjoyed our conversation, but I have a long travel day tomorrow and have to get up early. Off to sleep . See online again sometime!

2024-09-03 02:50:09

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Very true. Excellent argument. I agree.
But what about , say, a white engineering student, who can't write well at all. Maybe they have some kind of language disorder. Would you want them to have access to an LLM? From there you could think about the international student who is trying to find their way in the mainstream world of business. (And now we are treading on hotly contested ground in the discipline of Composition. I know. But these problems don't go away.)

2024-09-03 02:32:45

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2024-09-03 02:32:45

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2024-09-03 02:20:37

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What do you make of the argument that to be against using LLMs is ableist? That one actually has me thinking hard.

2024-09-03 02:00:16

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so do you think that people involved in NaNoWriMo think that using a LLM is NOT using AI and therefore they think it is fine? That would be interesting

2024-09-02 22:53:34

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That is a very different argument than your original and emphatic "LLMs are NOT AI." Parsing what something (like AI )"is" is never "just" semantic, but deeply contextual. Where one is located - industry, academe, journalism, general public, etc - gives rise to different meanings. But AI, LLMs and ML all "learn" and "create" in some sense outside/apart from what we typically understand as human learning and creativity. That is the disrupter.

2024-09-02 21:38:17

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One correction: LLMs (large language models) are indeed a form of AI ( artificial intelligence).

2024-09-02 19:11:11

Corrected: Moms For Liberty quoted Hitler prominently and cited him. They apologized, saying they should not have quoted him. How could they not have known that was a really bad idea? Besides, they didn't seem to have any problem with the quote itself: “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future” OWNS the youth?
#momsforliberty

2024-09-02 14:07:22

Why, I quit the New York Times exhibit 2 from The Morning, September 2, 2024:
Trump "often" wanders? Often? Really? Try always. And "wander" sounds so innocent. The man can't keep a thought straight.
"He insists"? So believe Trump? The consummate liar?
If "there is an art to stitching them together" it is an abstract art at best / one that allows for myriad interpretations / right up this creepy guy's alley. But really, who could possibly consider his drivel art?
#NYT
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2024-09-02 14:01:27

Why I quit the New York Times. Exhibit 1 from The Morning Sept 2, 2024.
Hamas didn't "give evidence," but the wording suggests we should simply believe the Israeli military - without evidence?
#NYT
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2024-08-31 11:55:29

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Maisy is a gorgeous cat and obviously deserves all the space she desires.

2024-08-26 17:10:45

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A gorgeous photo!

2024-08-17 15:11:05

Shiitake heaven. I know what we're having for dinner!
(Alt text: five vertical logs above several horizontal logs all nicely peppered with brown shiitake mushrooms - perfectly ripe for harvest. All carefully cultivated and leaning against a barn wall.)
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2024-08-16 15:16:23

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How cool!!

2024-08-03 11:25:15

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Maisy is a beauty!

2024-07-28 23:28:01

It is high summer here on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA.
(Alt: flower and herb gardens with the house off to the right. Purples, yellows, lots of different greens. A brilliant blue sky with clouds in the background.)
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2024-06-16 15:27:49

A wet cool June here on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Lots of mosquitoes and black flies; lots of biting flies on the beaches. Outside garden plants growing very slowly, some even rotting. The trees, onions, garlic, and perennials are very happy.
Alt: Enjoy these tiny baby blue forget-me-nots (with yellow centers) being pollinated by a copper colored butterfly, which is actually called an American Copper).
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