JaymesRS @ JaymesRS @literature.cafe

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Thankfully the US has a president who is deeply experienced in pandemic management and bringing society together in common cause so I should manage ok. 😭

Great set of books! Love them.

The rise of authoritarianism and nationalism is happening in multiple countries like Hungary, Russia, China, and the U.S. Parties like AfD have grown in strength in the last 20 years, thanks in part to the ability of social media companies to prioritize "engagement" to enable them to make more money over societal health.

I was surprised how poorly they still did as a chatbot vs ELIZA over after 50 years of potential progress and how revered they are in certain contexts.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375117569_Does_GPT-4_Pass_the_Turing_Test

Both can be, I have worked phone customer service with zero wait time and long wait times across multiple sectors and some people are straight abusive over the phone even for problems they caused.

One of the myriad reasons phone customer service jobs are horrible, but also good at training you for interacting with horrible people if you can manage it.

To be fair, I don't know that we don't block coursera as well but the block I specifically saw was for a course hero. And some of the blocks that we have on are for security reasons over reliability reasons. We have to be hyper cautious about the students leaking any potentially PHI and some of the Google sign in setups are less secure than others.

That's been my go to since they started. There is/was a challenge using them when we evaluated them a while back with forcing safe search reliability if I recall the reason.

We have a different person that manages our block list so I don't know the reason for all the blocks. That said, we block https://www.coursehero.com/ not https://www.coursera.org/

Thanks for the tip

That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook (for example, "why do dry erase markers float", the results page flashes for a second and then the "this page is blocked" screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.

And 2 kids can do the exact same search at the same time and get blocked for different sites or only one will get blocked.

I work in an education setting and in the last month, Google started preloading the contents of other sites directly on the search page. It is wreaking havoc when combined with our blocking tools because kids will do a Google search for something innocuous and the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something else we have blocked.

It's incredibly frustrating.

If you see Lio, they owe me $20.

I thought Fark solved this years ago with the lipstick test.

I can has Deep Seaburger?

Real rugged manly men go solo cave snorkeling though. Gotta prove how tough they are.

He should pick up a hobby like solo cave snorkeling.

Nice.

Clayton Bigsby walked so Severus Snape could run.

If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist's Riftwar instead perhaps