Allison Dieppa
@amdieppa
Instructor of writing and literature at Florida Gulf Coast University | Composition studies, critical AI, and early English literature Amdieppa.wordpress.com Any views expressed are my own.
My #LastFourWatched : The Jerk Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Cannibal! The Musical The Hateful 8 #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #filmsky #movies
I appreciate Lego’s attention to detail and accuracy in this build of Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”…but these tiny little heads are kind of creepy.
"Where the rich ruler rested always...There hung an all-golden Radiant fly-net around the folk-chief’s Bed embroidered; so that the baleful one, The loathed leader, might look unhindered On everyone of the warrior band Who entered in, and on him none" - the old English poem Judith #WyrdWednesday
The solicitation calls at work have continued, but I figured out how to block the number in Teams. Huzzah! I don't know who else needs to see this, but this is how I did it (check the alt text):
This passage in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right reminded me of how the same companies that create LLMs also sell us detection software.
Three grown-up films and one not so much. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #filmsky #movies
Cat-sitting these little buddies is such a treat. My photo reel is getting dangerously full. #catsky
Today’s challenge: figure out how to hug this glorious floof I’m cat-sitting without picking him up and breaking my back.
Check out my skills of an artist! It could use more consummate V’s, but it’s not too bad for my first time texture painting.
Pride (2014) Denial (2016) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023) A Cat in Paris (2010) #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #films #movies
My best friend's cat is so funny and adorable that she inspires me to make art.
“I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of God all in one.” - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
In Istanbul, one can visit this monument to the street cat Tombili, who was a neighborhood favorite and became popular online after being photographed posing in this position. #WyrdWednesday
Some films just break my rating system, and Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice is one of them. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #films #moviesky #movies
Rare daytime sighting of a neighborhood kitty! This pretty boy is terrified of humans, and the community doesn’t want us feeding ferals (psh, whatever), so I’m thrilled anytime he graces my doorstep with his presence. #catsky
Oh cool, another uninformed, fallacious cliché about AI from a celebrity. It’s funny how similar they all sound, as if they’re reading from the same script…
“[A] computing system…that accepts only certain kinds of ‘data,’ and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many doors that were open before it was installed.” - Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976 #criticalAI #philtech
“Patient, plodding, a green skin / growing over whatever winter did to us, a return / to the strange idea of continuous living despite / the mess of us” - from “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limon #poetrysky
I submitted final grades last night, but this semester was so grueling that it's going to take me a bit to mentally relax. I almost want to double-check the Canvas dashboard to make sure there isn't a ghost paper still lingering there.
My #LastFourWatched: The Atomic Cafe New York Ninja Blow Out Double Indemnity #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #movies #filmsky