Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname
@verbingnouns
academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest); ai (llm) apologists go away; דאיקייט
Genuinely can't wait for the 4 year old to crawl into bed next to me so I can be all
I feel like I'm going crazy. I can't find that blog post about how some search engine or early LLM started spitting out stuff about how "they pay me in woims" meant "warm coins"... help me out?
The variety is boundless. I tried the snakes one a couple times verbatim, and then checked one of the links. It does mention snakes, though, I *guess*?
I thought maybe it was specific to fish BUT IT'S NOT
Pardon the cobwebs, I've been bereft since Lucky the Seven Legged Spider died When applying the paint, it beaded at first. Slow, thin layers for it covered eventually, but we're too American to even know where to start a search on how British ceilings work and now it's peeling lol
For my birthday, the bairn (4;4) baked me a cake with help from @bergman.bsky.social of course and decorated it to look like ants that found a fallen lollipop, perhaps in the sand. Folks, having children fucking slaps.
I spent the morning surrounded by artists and art enjoyers, many of them the radical and queer varieties, and god damn, my soul is fed. I collaborated with my 4 year old to make legitimately good art (it was mostly them tbh) and it felt like emerging from a dense fog, even more than mending does.
Finally got a copy of The AI Con and @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social you're killing me here, come on, I did not pay good money to be razzed like this 😂
This is why, probably (I refuse to do age verification, which is why they're hidden for me)
I think there's something to AI psychosis and billionaire psychosis being linked. Sycophancy psychosis, perhaps.
FUCK okay here's the nonAI version. Much better tbh?
Now it's the best fabric print I've ever seen, but I was stupid and didn't buy any. One ragret, yknow?
Step 1: Take every money unit in your local currency that is currently put toward genAI and redirect it to sodium batteries, solar, trains, mRNA vaccines, informed rewilding, accessible tertiary education, carbon sequestration, and UBI. Step 2: Yeet the rich Step 3:
Happy(?) to report that it's under investigation now. But yeah, who tf were the reviewers (goose meme).
I wonder if there's something to this that we can use to fight back against the promotion of AI tools in higher ed. Creative assessment, erratic (but carefully purposeful) lesson structure, etc...
The best kind of librarian, according to the most authoritative source (Congrats!)
Northern Lights 2025 installation (seasonal lights and music trail)
My dearly departed boys, Loki & Leeroy. They were perfect cats, barely a brain cell b/t them, littermates and world travelers. The gentlest, silliest, biggest personalities. Leeroy died in 2022 from Three Stooges Syndrome, Loki died almost exactly a year ago after a brief fight w/ kidney disease. 💔
You see, I don't kid around with my craft. And apparently neither does my eldest, who designed the faces themself. Additional thanks to my spouse and my father who scooped out the pumpkins while I put the baby to bed. A whole family effort!