lol

Great thread

ChatGPT 3.5 just told me that 和紙 (washi) is the Japanese word for rice paper.

Actually made me laugh.

love this

‘first amendment auditor’

87-yo Princeton historian Peter Brown recollecting the influence of Foucault in Berkeley / Stanford in the early 1980s

at 5:00-34:00.

youtu.be/FxkT4eGlUSw?si…

A better way for me to have asked this question would have been

“In what context is your broad, unqualified claim true?”

yikes if authentic

I find it interesting that this question is interesting regardless whether it’s true.

Curious what percentage of the campus protestors are Sociology majors.

This seems much more likely than LLMs “replacing” existing functions.

【More vocab treats from Japanese 𝕏】

ネタバレ注意
Spoiler alert

世知辛い世の中
せちがらいよのなか
It’s a harsh world

排他的・利己的
Excluding others・Self-benefiting

自己成就の予言
じこじょうじゅのよげん
Self-fulfilling prophecy

騎乗位
きじょうい
Cowgirl position
(It’s…

genius

Best caption so far

King Slutzky

Biggest self-own of 2024?

wow

モモンガ

What the judgy brand of pro-natalists miss is …

If you don’t already want / need kids for yourself, for whatever reason, then it really doesn’t make sense to have them just so that other people’s descendants will have someone to trade stuff with.