if i hauve to sit through one more a.i. in education workshop i’m going to mcfuckin lose it
“you can give feedback with a.i.!” “look at what flint came up with!” “it makes grading essays so much easier!”
My mom’s a Special Ed teacher and she legit had to get up in the middle of a seminar and tell the presenter that no, you CANNOT have an AI write your IEPs, since they’re legal documents
one of the other teachers was talking about using flint k12 to modify feedback for a kid with dyslexia and i could literally feel my soul leaving my body. like what have we become. we are putting the educational fate of our kids with learning disabilities in the hands of a machine that does not even know what the words it’s spitting out means. how is it supposed to help them when it cannot process human language and is instead spitting out the result of statistical probabilities. these are the students who need our real human support most. is this thing on. hello
*sends out email I’ve been putting off* ah finally :). ah that’s a weight off my shoulders :). ah I can relax an– *receives response to email* what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuckkkk
Reminds me of that story about the teacher or lecturer or whatever who told their class “hey, the ceiling has ‘gullible’ written on it” and anyone who looked up discovered that yep, the word “gullible” really had been written on a piece of card and taped to the ceiling. And after letting that sink in for a while the teacher said something like “those of you who looked up have just demonstrated one of the most important tenets of research: check the source.”
I’m wondering if anyone who’s been curious about Exodus and then saw the TGA gameplay trailer has also noticed something familiar?
Like Exodus is Mass Effect: Andromeda + more money and Matthew McConaughey??
I guess it’s okay to seek inspiration but kinda weird if it looks like a copy? Even if James Ohlen (former head of Archetype Entertainment, they’re making Exodus) previously worked on Mass Effect: Andromeda as a director of design??
Mass Effect: Andromeda was claimed as a big fail, yes. But.. you thought nobody played it? Or nobody remembers it? That’s funny.
(two cake rule, yes. i don’t hate it yet. would be interesting to see how it turns out)
Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people’s homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it’s one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they’ve sent someone to do utility work on your house.
Some people have shared stories of suspicious “sales representatives” knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.
They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.
True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.
They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.
Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.
Actual sales reps also generally do follow “no soliciting” signs. Be aware, be safe, don’t give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.
first rule of fandom is everything goes back to destiel
second rule of fandom is everything goes back to kirk/spock
third rule of fandom is everything goes back to holmes & watson
fourth rule of fandom is everything goes back to achilles & patroclus
the funny thing is. I originally typed out “fifth rule of fandom is everything goes back to gilgamesh & enkidu” but then I thought ‘no, I can’t trust that people will be familiar with the epic of gilgamesh’
