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ooooooh you meant latex as in that uncomfortable rubber stuff? I thought we were all getting off to typesetting software…

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

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They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames

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i love linked lists. i love accessing memory addresses and modifying them as i please. surely this wont cause any issues at all

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It is often said that experience is the best teacher. This is false. The best teacher is G'hatnar The Certain, whose four hundred heads see into each aeon of the universe and knows all that has ever been, ever is, and will ever be.

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THANK YOU BING IMAGE SEARCH. Thought I lost this!  8D

I made this in 1996.  To make it back then was a million times harder than it would have been today:  screen capped each frame in the loop by hooking up my VCR to my TV capture card (it was this external monstrosity with a separate power cord XD).  The screen caps had bad color, were blurry, and full of static so I redrew each frame pixel by pixel with a mouse (wasn’t so good at image editing programs back then). XD;;

Of course, it got lost over time because I made that thing like 203498203489 computers ago, so I’m glad people jacked it from my site back in the day. XD

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Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.  Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.”  “It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.

- PEOPLE ARE LOSING LOVED ONES TO AI-FUELED SPIRITUAL FANTASIES, Rolling Stone, May 4, 2025)

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honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

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To: professor@schoolname.edu Subject: CLASS3290 Question

are you mad at me

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Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don’t Give A Shit

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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

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you know what's wrong with me? i like information

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Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

PhD Timeline [Explained]

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[A chart titled "U. S. P. H. D. Program Timeline", with arrows directing the various labelled stages and a block showing the percentage of Coursework to Research over time.] Meet with Advisor. Research Proposal. Qualifying Exams. Propose Dissertatin. Research and Write Dissertation.

[The next stages, "Submit Dissertation" and "Defend Dissertation" have been crossed out in red, with new stages also written in red covering up the Coursework to Research block.] Get grabbed off the sidewalk outside your home by masked government agents. Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene. ???

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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’