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thinking about creatures.

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Meanwhile, in Canada...

Prairie provinces: *squabbling over who's colder during winter*

The territories: Look at them, they're so cute.

The city of Winnipeg specifically: You're all adorable.

Winnipeg is to cold what Vancouver is to warmth when it comes to winter in Canada. (aka How are either of those cities even real)

Context for non-Canadians: Winnipeg during winter frequently hits temperatures colder than on Mars.

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Politicians without empathy are identifying with billionaires over We The People.

The Class War is built on this moral disconnect.

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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My fucking cat has figured out how to gently dig his claws into my eyelid and pull my eyes open while I'm sleeping. He does this. It does not hurt. He is remarkably precise and gentle. I however am asleep when it happens and do not appreciate being clockwork oranged by a needy clingy goddamn animal who thinks he needs attention.

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yall the comedy wildlife photography results are coming out atm and

look

LOOK AT THIS LIL MAN

THANK YOU BRIAN MATTHEWS HOLY SHIT HES GOT SUCH A CASE OF THE MONDAYS

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i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr

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At the California Institute of the Arts, it all started with a videoconference between the registrar’s office and a nonprofit.

One of the nonprofit’s representatives had enabled an AI note-taking tool from Read AI. At the end of the meeting, it emailed a summary to all attendees, said Allan Chen, the institute’s chief technology officer. They could have a copy of the notes, if they wanted — they just needed to create their own account.

Next thing Chen knew, Read AI’s bot had popped up inabout a dozen of his meetings over a one-week span. It was in one-on-one check-ins. Project meetings. “Everything.”

The spread “was very aggressive,” recalled Chen, who also serves as vice president for institute technology. And it “took us by surprise.”

The scenariounderscores a growing challenge for colleges: Tech adoption and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff — especially as it pertains to AI — are outpacing institutions’ governance of these technologies and may even violate their data-privacy and security policies.

That has been the case with note-taking tools from companies including Read AI, Otter.ai, and Fireflies.ai.They can integrate with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teamsto provide live transcriptions, meeting summaries, audio and video recordings, and other services.

Higher-ed interest in these products isn’t surprising.For those bogged down with virtual rendezvouses, a tool that can ingest long, winding conversations and spit outkey takeaways and action items is alluring. These services can also aid people with disabilities, including those who are deaf.

But the tools can quickly propagate unchecked across a university. They can auto-join any virtual meetings on a user’s calendar — even if that person is not in attendance. And that’s a concern, administrators say, if it means third-party productsthat an institution hasn’t reviewedmay be capturing and analyzing personal information, proprietary material, or confidential communications.

“What keeps me up at night is the ability for individual users to do things that are very powerful, but they don’t realize what they’re doing,” Chen said. “You may not realize you’re opening a can of worms.“

The Chronicle documented both individual and universitywide instances of this trend. At Tidewater Community College, in Virginia, Heather Brown, an instructional designer, unwittingly gave Otter.ai’s tool access to her calendar, and it joined a Faculty Senate meeting she didn’t end up attending. “One of our [associate vice presidents] reached out to inform me,” she wrote in a message. “I was mortified!”

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OH OKAY SO WE'RE JUST JUMPING TO THE 80S TO SEE THE BOYS THAT WERE COWBOYS FRIENDS ARE ALMOST ALL DEAD AND THE LAST ONE ATTENDING IS A PATHETIC OLD MAN COOL THAT'S GREAT I FEEL FINE ABOUT IT

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GEESE ARE ACTUALLY TERRIFYING AND I LOVE THAT THERE IS A CONTENT WARNING FOR THEM.

Hey Old Gods of Appalachia what the fuck????

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and in these woods, there are two queens.

from @ darclafarse on twitter

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Bingeing like 12 straight episodes of Old Gods of Appalachia while driving 4 hours in the dead of night on an empty mountain highway to my hometown has fundamentally changed me as a person

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Me listening to Old Gods of Appalachia right now:

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I'm relistening to Old Gods of Appalachia and I realized something I hadn't thought of before. In Episode 0.5, Horned Head says Daughter Dooley has "kinship with this land." I always thought that just referred to how she shepherds it and lives off it and nourishes it.

BUT I just realized today that parts of Ireland used to be part of the same mountain range as the Appalachians. So there's also a kinship there. I'm only just now entering the Old Gods online discourse so no idea if this has been brought up before.

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