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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • English teachers grade grammar, spelling, punctuation. Most pay little attention to the actual content. Weak papers with excellent grammar receive high marks, while strong, well-sourced, well supported papers are are heavily docked over spelling and punctuation. The purpose of language “arts” classes is not the function of language, but the form.

    This isn’t true at all. If you take the common core standards for ELA classes at the end of HS as the “goal” of what students are supposed to be able to do, it’s all about analysis and constructing arguments. There’s not a single mention of spelling or punctuation in there.

    https://www.thecorestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/11-12/













  • We can only hope that customer service facing AI promises customers miracles and companies get sued each and every time it can’t deliver. Like if websites like ehow put up articles that reach the normies about “how to trick AI into promising you a million dollars and how you can win it in court”.

    Of course any responsibility for what AI says will be killed as soon as a tech bro chucks a few million bucks at SCOTUS (it’s so sad how little our politicians and courts can be bought for), but it’s a nice dream to pretend we still have laws for now.




  • I was still young when I first stayed out too late one evening fucking around with some friends in the neighborhood and my mom grounded me when I got home. Trouble was she didn’t realize that “grounding” someone is an idiom and I thought she was going to bury me alive. Pretty sure she didn’t understand why I was crying.