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Pauline Barmby
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Appropriately for the imminent solstice, my story “Daylight Savings Time” asks, “what if we just had a few more hours in the day?”
Published by @hellitself.bsky.social, find it here: hellitself.com/daylight-sav...
Appropriately for the imminent solstice, my story “Daylight Savings Time” asks, “what if we just had a few more hours in the day?”
Published by @hellitself.bsky.social, find it here: hellitself.com/daylight-sav...
Spot on. I’d add that another cost of easy high school As is first year students’ shock and dismay when their university grades drop to something reasonable.
National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. It lands on summer solstice: a time of profound cultural and spiritual significance for many Indigenous peoples.
A dedicated day that recognizes and celebrates the rich cultures, histories, and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.
New from Hell Itself, @pbarmby.bsky.social brings us a story of good intentions in "Daylight Savings Time.'
hellitself.com/daylight-sav...
Younger Son (in aviation security) introduced me to a very particular kind of Easter egg. Airline flight numbers are not always sequential or random.
American Airlines 420 goes from DFW to - Denver.
Lufthansa has 2222 to Toulouse (which works only in English).
Torment nexus something something
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
Good, thoughtful thread.
And when I talk about AI cheating with my students I stress that cheating is high-risk, doing the work low-risk:
If you make any effort at all in my class you'll pass, and if you need a certain grade I'll work with you to help you get it.
But if you cheat? You fail.
Don’t trust LLMs with your literature searches. Horrible gender biases as found in this paper (from later in the thread below) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 🧪🔭
