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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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Murderbot (TV) Concept Art by Tommy Arnold

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to me the murderbot books and the tv show are still two separate things (which is good - the tv show is an adaptation, it doesn't have to recreate the books exactly nor should it) but I'm getting a kick out of how being able to SEE SecUnit's face recontextualizes things.

like. in the books the PresAux crew treats SecUnit like a person because they are A) nice in general and B) ethical

in the show the PresAux crew is still A) nice in general and B) ethical, but they're also C) fairly certain their SecUnit is a person because every time they talk to it directly it looks like it's going to throw up

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Murderbot: suck my dick

The Perihelion, an intellectual: inhale my richard

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Is the Preservation team's communitarianism and alternative lifestyle really being played for laughs or are we just uncomfortable/not used to seeing a noncapitalistic noncisheteronormative society on screen that isn't a joke?

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I'm actually super glad that the murderbot show isn't a 1 to 1 adaptation. It deserves to be a show that murderbot would love.

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Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts

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if your harmless fixation helps you heal, go for it. get engrossed in what could save you.

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Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?  I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.

The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth

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Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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My favourite part of writing professional emails is sending them and immediately running over to my "sent" folder to check I did in fact write "Yeah, I can make a 3 PM meeting" and not "I think you're a big stupid piece of shit and I fucked your wife" somehow

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I know they will, which is why I’m willing to die to get them up there.

i believe this is my fifth time reading through the murderbot diaries series, and the second System Collapse reread, and this part right here, i didn’t paid much attention in my first read but this time around… screaming crying throwing up

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me: I know I’m not supposed to find Murderbot attractive, but—

LeeLeeBee: hey that SecUnit is pretty cute

me: GROSS SHUT UP. YOU ARE VIOLATING ITS BOUNDARIES.

…but like for real it’s making me think things about the different kinds of attractiveness and attraction and as an allosexual aromantic it’s like. fucking with my head. in a good way! because I don’t think I ever understood the difference between sexual and aesthetic attraction (appreciation?) and now I think I do. because the idea that Murderbot might—ugh—fuck is like fundamentally distasteful and offensive to me. like the disrespect of it all! but the face and the body are nice to look at it. but not to touch. don’t fucking touch it. if you touch my touch-averse anxiety baby I will cut your hand off thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Murderbot after rescuing its crew by blowing someone's head off:

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The beauty of Murderbot being such an unreliable narrator in the books is that it is actually 100% plausible MB was hallucinating a self-insert Sanctuary Moon fanfic the entire time it was being rescued and left those details out of its narrative because they were too embarrassing.

I imagine that for MB, realizing it accidentally called Mensah "captain" out loud to her face like some star-struck ensign is a humiliation on par with a high school student realizing they accidentally called their favorite teacher "mom."