Hey! Are you up to talking about your opinions on the value of current AI technology? I’m personally opposed due to how our society has chosen to organize itself, but I think the basic concept is interesting.

Bill proposed by Senator Cassidy, and cosponsored by Cruz and Loeffler, what a surprise. Link to Bill

Fighting hypervilgilance that wants me to keep track of all the new everywhere all the time, since I know that I’m as safe as I can be in the US and if something big happens I have lots of channels of information to find out about it. Just need to focus on my life and the little joys I can have, like making a cup of tea and enjoying this absurd song I heard that’s kind of a dance club remix of a synthetic voice reading PR stuff about queer people? It’s honestly great.

I feel you. This isn’t the life we should have had, and it’s deeply unfair that we have to live in it. I’m also just trying to live each day. <3

My bingo-board didn’t have, “replacing actual research with a liar-box,” but here we are. I’ve noticed, to my increasing discomfort, trends with using ChatGPT (and similar) to replace actual research into topics, or people using them to “summarize” articles. As someone with actual research training it’s pretty alarming to realize how little people understand about what research is.

I’ve seen how badly these things mangle my area of academic interest, because they can’t write reasonable citations.

I’m focusing on myself right now. I know that my difficulties with executive function make it hard to accomplish a lot of things my values would require of me, so I’m trying to focus on self-care as defiance. Being trans, alive and happy is a small victory in itself.

That’s really rough. I know how much it can grind you down to be rejected again and again like that. My heart goes out to you and I wish you the best, human to human.