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I had a really fun weekend >w< 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

@kenmarlenn @queenkatluv @theinvisibledavis

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Redhead world domination

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They out shopping~

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“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

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when you go to bed significantly earlier than usual, a little menu should pop up asking if you want Wake Up Early or More Sleep. and then you should get what you requested. that's my human body UI improvement for the day.

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Eclipse wip idk if I’ll finish

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Some emojis I made for the tsbs discord server :]

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This trio:

Andrew and the boxes :>

And little silly doodle:

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Father of the year right here guys (part of a tiktok i'm working on)

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Game Changer S2: players unionize against the ridiculous challenges

Game Changer S7: players unionize against the ridiculous challenges and make you go to a therapy session before you can join their sick party in the parking lot

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hes so sad

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Leta forget about Sun DID YOU SAW MY BABIES JAKE AND ANDY IN NEW EP???🥹

MY PRECIOUS BABIES I LOVE THEM WAAAA

THE BABS THE BABS THE BABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEYRE REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wild googles

Images by kody

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i always click the "track package" button as soon as i get the email. "oh boy i wonder where my package is!" warehouse.

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Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

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new update on my dog and her talk buttons shes started just lying. like she just lies now