SethRudy

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

SethRudy, 9 months ago to random

On Monday, my wife will drive through the new ten-foot gate and fence surrounding her school where they will fire live rounds so teachers will know what real gunfire sounds like as they learn to apply tourniquets to children.

We feel so free.

SethRudy, 16 days ago to random

Everybody thinks about poor Prometheus stuck to the mountain but no one spares a thought for the eagle who is also trapped in this relationship and is probably thinking “ugh, liver? Again?!”

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

If we don’t rapidly integrate AI into all academic curricula, students will not be able to compete in the marketplace for the very few jobs and potable water left as a result of rapidly integrating AI into all academic curricula

SethRudy, 9 months ago to random

It’s 2032. An AR-15 equipped with ChatGPT is elected President. It wins by presenting itself as the victim of its crimes.

SethRudy, 8 months ago to random

Teachers: push back ocean with broom
Admins: thank you for everything you do, nothing is more important, we’ve bought you all brand new toothbrushes (please hand in your brooms)
People: my tax dollars paid for that toothbrush you lazy communist

SethRudy, 7 months ago to random

It’s the easiest thing in the world to demonize the other and appropriate to oneself a dangerously false and misleading moral certitude.

So I imagine we’ll just keep doing that.

SethRudy, 8 months ago to random

Breaking: Senator Mitt Romney announces that now that it can no longer endanger his political career, he and his publisher are ready to profit from revealing damning details about the GOP in a new book

SethRudy, 10 months ago to random

It took like one year of historically low unemployment for conservatives to say no more abortions, you must have children, and also those children should work in factories

SethRudy, 10 months ago to random

All this “become ungovernable” stuff floating around and the only ones actually doing it are the Supreme Court

SethRudy, 10 months ago to random

Me, 30, slipping a bit on wet pavement: I hope no one saw that

Me, 40, slipping a bit on wet pavement: is my will up to date

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

A student today drew the line between Gen Z and Gen A by saying, “yeah, we’re on TikTok, but at least we remember what it was like before TikTok,” and once again I realized that to them I was born when the earth was first cooling.

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

I am being mugged #caturday

SethRudy, 9 months ago to random

The child has reached an age at which cushion forts are appreciated; a new horizon of ways to kill time opens before me

SethRudy, 8 months ago to random

People keep pointing out GOP hypocrisy like one day the horse medicine space laser sedition crowd are all going to say, “you know, you’re right, my positions haven’t been logically consistent.”

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Report from Canadian pediatric society urging more risky play for kids and I’m all for it, but you gotta know socialized medicine is the rubber floor and padded everything else for parents. Yeah, you go ahead and climb that, Johnny Mapleaf, a broken arm won’t bankrupt your family.

https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/outdoor-risky-play

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

Me, ten years ago: I can reach all my students
Me, five years ago: I can reach half my students
Me, two years ago: I can reach some students
Me, now: there’s got to be one body I can pull out of this train wreck

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

My car would not start today, and I stand in solidarity with it.

SethRudy, 10 months ago to PetBirds

I've done my back a mischief. Here's a #housefinch I saw looking at me. #birds #birding

SethRudy, 1 year ago to random

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to teach third graders how to apply tourniquets, you’ve lost the fucking plot of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

So there were five different species of birds on the feeder at once and I was going to make a parable about just getting along with each other despite our differences but then a blue jay showed up and went absolutely feral on everyone, so never mind.

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

Fuck it, I’m going outsource all my medical needs to ChatGPT and just do whatever it tells me. Experiment on myself like Newton stuffing bodkins into his eyes, like Humphry damn Davy huffing nitrous and getting fucked up with STC, jacking my immunity up with pus from every sick animal on God’s mean earth, like a boss, like a man, like an American with American health insurance

SethRudy, 21 days ago to random

Do you remember that experiment you did in high school physics, where you built a bridge out of toothpicks or whatever and then tested its strength by slowly adding more weight until it snapped?

That’s what we’re doing with American democracy.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to memphis

The snows have come to #Memphis; already the cat and child whisper about which parent to eat first.

SethRudy, 1 day ago to random

Thinking about AI again.

Yesterday, the AI-powered bird-ID thing my mom gave me detected what it identified as a scarlet ibis.

Now I have a couple options. I can say, hey, this AI has seen a lot more birds than I have, so if it says one of the two national birds of Trinidad and Tobago stopped to eat in my backyard, so be it. Or I can look at the photo and say, well that there’s a cardinal.

You have to already know stuff to know the AI is wrong. But no one is going to treat it that way.