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damnd0zen

mapleejay

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

mapleejay

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

asynca

I watched an insane amount of TikTok and other short form videos for the story I'm writing right now. I gotta say, afterwards, I found myself picking up my phone and opening the apps, almost unconsciously. I was walking and I thought about watching some vids at the same time. I was on hold to the ATO... maybe some videos.

I also happen to specialise in gambling addiction (although I'm not practicing in that area right now), and all I could fucking think about was how these fucking apps were conditioning me in the same fucking way gambling apps do. To be constantly plugged in, consuming. To not even think about just picking it up and having a look. To feel bored when I wasn't watching them, to think about watching them when I wasn't watching them....

That shit is fucking evil.

I deleted it. I'm not exposing myself to that.

That shit will fry your dopamine/reward system so fucking bad you will never read a book or watching a movie again without it.

Love yourself and your potential enough to put that fucking shit away. Watch longer form things that require focus and engagement. Listen to podcasts and audiobooks. Read books. DO ANYTHING BUT CONSUME SHORT FORM CONTENT IN AN UNSTRUCTURED WAY.

If you MUST consume it (I'm sure people will be like 'but my classmates' or 'but my own channel'.... etc), do it in a siloed and structured way. 30 minutes between x time and x time on x day. Focus on it. Don't eat and do it. Watch each short form video to completion. Engage critically with the content. ANd never watch them first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

PLEASE. From a gambling professional, short form videos ping your SAME circuitry and you will fuck up your life and your brain so badly if you don't put up guardrails for yourself.

Way too funny not to share

ms-demeanor

optimisticrunawaygalaxy

sexshopshenanigans

accessible-tumbling

[image description: the Gru’s Plan meme, which shows Gru from Despicable Me gesturing deviously at an easel. Text reads: “get really into an unpopular character. Show them love and affection. Can’t find any content on them”. In the last panel of the meme, it says “can’t find any content of them” again while Gru looks perturbed.

The next image shows Gru in a different scene, holding up a blue balloon animal. Text reads: “make content yourself. Be the change you want to see in the world”.

The third image shows a scribbly version of Gru looking miserable. Text reads: “have artistic talent”.

The fourth image shows a sketched but still well-drawn version of Gru gesturing at the easel again. Text reads: “talent is bullshit, nurture your skills with practice and make the content you want to see!”.

The fifth image shows a messily drawn version of Gru. Text reads: “if the content was made with love and passion it doesn’t have to be highly polished to be enjoyable. Especially for a rarely loved character”.

The final image is the most basic of the drawings. Gru is shown as just a round stick person with a pointy nose. Text reads: “holy shit 2 contents”. End ID]

elierlick

There is still time. It's never too late to transition.

anicefriedegg

It is unseen

teaboot

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

teaboot

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

500crimes

Allergic to corn chips

shamebats

If T makes you gain weight and E and antidepressants do it too, and so does enjoying good food and not being hungry all the time, then perhaps maybe sometimes joy & weight gain come hand in hand and that's good

starjuicebox

“she said ‘no one wants to hold a rose with too many thorns.’ i never understood poetry, to be honest.” - things said by men about to get science-divorced

littlealienproducts

trans people make the world go round! - cat art print by robinillu

bowuigii

Biddles shenanigans!!

reasonablywittyatbest

Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.