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hey jirt what the fuck did you mean by this

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THE BEAR (2022–) S04E07, Bears

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THE BEAR FX | 4x07 | Bears

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Sydney Adamu and Richie Jerimovich in Season 4 of THE BEAR

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Operation Mincemeat + Reductress Headlines

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Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

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it's me against the man he's always been

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THE PITT 1.04

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the pitt fic: what can i hold you with?

Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch

Summary: Three different moments in Robby and Abbot’s relationship—when they first meet, when they make a mistake, and when they finally get it together.

Read on Ao3 HERE

The first time Jack Abbot meets Michael Robinavitch doesn’t actually happen in the ED, and he won’t realize how strange that is until years later. They meet during their General Surgery rotation, as it happens. Both of them are med students with something of a reputation—Robinavitch for apparently having done a rockstar turn in his ED rotation and collecting accolades and a mentor even though he’s barely just an MS4; Jack, of course, because he’s a “jarhead”, nevermind that he’s a goddamned Navy Corpsman and he only serves with Marines but he isn’t actually one of them.

I was very much not expecting to write The Pitt fic but I have been obsessed with this show since it started in January and I could not stop thinking about THEM and I basically wrote this in one day, so. Yep.

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AN: i am so normal about this scene i promise.

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thought about the women of the pitt and started sobbing

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Dichen Lachman as Gemma Scout — Severance (2.07)

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THE PITT | 1.15

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The most important person that you're gonna meet today. This is Dana. She's our charge nurse. She is the ringleader of our circus.

Katherine LaNasa as DANA EVANS THE PITT (2025—)

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How’s my least problematic trainee?

Dr. Mel King & Dr. Frank Langdon THE PITT

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The Pitt (2025 - ) I 1.09