HBlog
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The year in my PhD, am I still here?
I’ve been away from the campus and from my colleagues for a couple of weeks so I’m starting to feel disconnected from the academic community. When that happens, I start thinking I should walk away from the dissertation Continue reading
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the quest for the voting day donut
I decided to reward myself with baked goods with a promise that I would get a couple of donuts after doing my civic duty. This, I did not realize was going to be a quest in vain. Continue reading
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OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week These fucking guys. If you think words are not valuable unless part of a dataset and vibes are for building apps, then you’ve never been a person in a room where the atmosphere shifts when someone says, Continue reading
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I was driving down the road in the early morning and the group of white garbage bags piled at the end of my neighbor’s driveway startled me, because my brain registered that as a sleeping ice-breath Lizalfos from the Gerudo Highlands. I really need to finish Breath of the Wild. Continue reading
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I’ve had a Cat TV video on the main screen in the living room all morning. Birds from hundreds of miles away are screeching and chirping their guts out and these furry fuckers that live with me are off somewhere sleeping. Cats. Pfft. Continue reading
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potato reels
If someone told you that, instead of mashed potatoes, you have to eat potato chips, what would you assume their motivation is? This is what I think when I can’t do something on browser Instagram, but have to go to phone Instagram. Get me to the bite-sized, can’t put it down machine, right? Continue reading
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ethics is doing a lot of work
Academics, when writing about AI-generated texts and education, should have to clearly define the words “ethically” and “responsibility” in their introduction section, because the way they’re using those words don’t make no sense. Continue reading
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introversion
Sometimes I wonder if my (sometimes) extreme introversion is unwillingness to suppress my sensory issues. I understand we’re all getting into our masking/unmasking era, and that introversion is really just a way of being in opposition to certain performances of capitalism (go grad-school girl) BUT perhaps the energy suck that is interpersonal engagement is just Continue reading
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a sudden admission of a problem
The world is painting your problem across the sky – perhaps you should read that, idiot. Continue reading
H.B. FLYTE 