xal

imagine an internal life that’s a rollercoaster and also a mobius strip

[houndgrrrl]

18 yr old coyote-coded transsexual

any prns except they... ⚢ x ⚣ × ⚥ × ⚧︎

digital personal museum, canineical -> dunelit -> houndgrrrl

banner art @/corrodedparadox

[mustikoita]

Permission Structures

How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers

[librarycards]

My Theory of the Case Why do students use LLMs to write their papers? My theory of the case is twofold: they have not been given the opportunity to think about why education is worthwhile or even what it truly is, and they experience significant anxiety about their work as students.4 To respond to this theory, I decided on three guiding ideas for planning my course: - Students need to have the chance to think about the significance of their own education in a serious way. - I needed to be very explicit about the purpose of everything I asked them to do, and about connecting it to this sense of purpose. - My students needed to feel sufficiently secure that they were free to take the intellectual risk I was asking of them.

This extract in particular is an excellent summary of why people turn to AI, and (as well as what follows, namely the "raising the standards and lowering the stakes" bit) an excellent guide to recentering education as a process & practice rather than a series of benchmarks students are required to chase.

[partingglances1986]

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.

[natequarter]

i am always fascinated by the notion of one particular technological or scientific revelation fundamentally changing how humans interact with the world, because this often gets associated with only the last hundred years of human history - as if ipads have changed the world irreversibly, but discovering that there were in fact seven continents and not two did not.

[meltedbrains]

@sircarolyn Le Guin couldn't miss if she were blindfolded

[natequarter]

[ID: a quote from Ursula K le Guin reading, "We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology" at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe…

One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty "hi," is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?" /end ID]

[xansheu]

a quick one

[julykings]

i would like to hold on to everything

[julykings]

prints of this drawing are now available in my shop :-)

[ferncloud]

stuck in a dream

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

tactics to remain intact ❔

keep a part of yourself reserved for yourself alone and build a relationship with the silence at the heart of your solitude. who you are before that silence is the closest thing you can get to an unobstructed view of yourself. the noisier it is in your head, the further away you are from the middle. take medication if it helps keep the volume down. remain in your body and listen to it. whatever the day disintegrates within you, make some attempt to reintegrate it each night. whatever emotion is shaking you like a rabbit in the jaws of a dog, go limp and wait for the dog to finish before you take action or speak rashly. keep all promises to yourself. eat and sleep and drink as well as you can. figure out what makes the integity of your self worse and quit doing it. show up every day to the job of taking care of yourself. forge close personal bonds with your peers, if you can locate some peers. dance.

[everydaylouie]

now recording...

[keymintt]

for all the wants you didn't have the words for

[gardenofsubjectivity-deactivate]

I don’t really understand the shift the Internet has seemed to have about kink and proshipping. In the early to mid 2010’s it was common to see people defend rape kinks and “bizarre” fetishes. We had the “violence in video games” debate in the 2000’s. It seemed like we were on the same page but something changed.

Why is it we all understood the concept fine but now it’s so heavily debated? There hasn’t been a rise in sex crimes, at least not correlated to kink/proship content. What’s the deal?

[shsl-fujoshi]

It's correlated with a rise in conservatism, sex negativity, and attempted censorship across the board in the western world.

[rogue-translator]

[asneakyfox]

the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

[asneakyfox]

yes i know you think it's an antiracist statement, that you're saying it's a bad thing white americans don't have culture. but what you're actually saying is that the way white americans live is simply the normal way to live and that "culture" refers only to deviations from that norm

[asneakyfox]

there's real holidays and then there's, you know, cultural holidays. there's regular foods and there's ethnic foods

[asneakyfox]

this is not (just) about "cultural christianity," an idea that gestures at a real thing but the way tumblr talks about it is mostly not useful, i'm talking about stuff much broader than that.

making yourself a ham sandwich with mayo on white bread is a cultural practice just as much as making jollof rice is a cultural practice.

[asneakyfox]

if you feel some kind of yearning as a white american to connect with your Ancestral Culture you can get really into wearing lederhosen or playing bagpipes or whatever. but you could also just learn to understand the way you are living right now as a culture and not some kind of neutral default absence of culture

[vintagebang-deactivated20160521]

[squidinkarchives]

Harry Fonseca 1979, “Coyote, When Coyote Leaves the Res”

Acrylic on canvas

Harry Fonseca began his art career using imagery from his Native American Maidu heritage in his art. His Coyote Series of paintings started in 1979. These works use the coyote as the trickster of Maidu ancestral stories, depicted in nontraditional clothing and settings. In this painting Coyote is dressed in black leather and other aspects of queer-dress experienced by the artist in San Francisco, expressing Fonseca's personal narrative as a gay Native American living off-reservation.

[source: Swann Galleries]

[ransomnote]

my personal argument for open borders is really simple it just boils down to "i believe restricting human movement and barring certain people from certain places on this earth is a human rights violation"

[ransomnote]

i mean this. everyone should be able to walk freely between mexico and the united states, fuck an ID, fuck a passport, fuck a visa. it's land, continuous, uninterrupted land. the soil on one side of the fense has the same geologic makeup of the soil on the other. we drew this invisible line in the sand, we can wipe it away with our feet together. it is well past time the world organizes en masse for our freedom of movement.

[huariqueje]

July Lake - Jessica Lisse , 2024.

French , b. 1990 -

Acrylic on paper , 40 x 59.5 cm.