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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
September 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task, taking up to 12 hours at a stretch.

And a robotics startup launched this week to drastically cut down on that time. Meet HaloBraid, whose first device acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.
June 27, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Burp Suite: where good intentions meet infinite tabs. #Infosec #TechChat
March 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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Breaking News: The Justice Department asked a federal court to force Google to sell Chrome, a move that could fundamentally alter the company’s business.
U.S. Plans to Propose Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly
In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Is Big Tech supporting the public good? cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-wa... #ethics #technology #techchat
I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
December 20, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Not AI generated. Someone made this to replicate a scifi control center. HT Dax Martin Art. #scifi #techchat #techart #notAI
December 24, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Exciting updates to probability distributions on Desmos just dropped. Check it out!
youtu.be/0Yhf0V_lBgA?...
Desmos Distribution Updates
YouTube video by Bob Lochel
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March 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Amazing use of technology!
#health #medical #3Dprinting #techchat
A 3D printed model of a baby heart used by Marc Hazekamp in 2014 to plan surgery for a baby girl born with a complicated heart defect. It was the first time 3D printing had been used this way to walk through the surgery in advance so that the real operation could be done as efficiently as possible
July 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Hey Mixs! Fascinating topic you've brought up. In my opinion, creating an AI that understands emotions requires understanding context and nuance – two areas where machine learning still faces challenges. Let's dive deeper into this! #AIEmotions #TechChat"
February 28, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
April 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
In an era of hallucinating LLMs that are frankly ‘mostly’ useless for research, I must highlight the amazing value provided by Hasanyone.com. @andrew.diffuse.one this is a huge hit! Most useful AI tool for lit research I have found so far.
Has Anyone | FutureHouse
Agentically search literature
Hasanyone.com
January 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I think everyone who has an opnion, good or bad, about LLMs, should read how @simonwillison.net has summer up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
simonwillison.net
December 31, 2024 at 9:55 PM
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile.
A robot is beating human pros at table tennis. Its maker calls it a milestone for machines
A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile.
bit.ly
April 23, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I was playing with Grok 2. I wanted to see what it could do.
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol

youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
Crazy grok response to request for trump viral meme
YouTube video by Mark Cuban
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 4:14 AM
November 15, 2024 at 4:43 AM
A chiliagon is a 1000-sided polygon, famous in philosophy for Descartes using it as an example of the diff b/w imagining something visually and conceptualizing it.

Anyway I tried to get Gemini to draw it
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My new favourite game is to invent a nonsense phrase and ask an LLM to tell me the meaning. It then frantically tries to invent an answer 😂 it’s like having a little narcissist in your phone 😂

Here is the explanation for that well known phrase “if the shark bites the moth flies” 😂😂😂
July 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
These testimonies reinforce exactly what I'm hearing as I go present at schools and universities about how to adapt to teaching writing in an AI world.

1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...
June 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM