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Owls keep tracking in dirt! Sorry for being short. I'm hangry.
It makes it stop federating, so only Hexbears can use the den. That way you don't need to ban people from out side the site, and they won't have access to it from their instance. I don't know if you can view it while logged out or not. Something to consider!
That's not a threat. That's a *promise*! 
It's some kind of apple. You can have a second one only once everybody already got one  (office donut rules).
Platonically Explanation: ::: spoiler spoiler There is no explanation, that's the post :::
*thunk*  Look what I found! Think it really brings the room together. Perfect for continuing the den brigaderino. But also maybe if we tie enough balloons to it we can freak out the air force and make it piss away all its AA missiles
My alt-account for checking out Hexbear and Lemmygrad is basically my main account now and whenever I check the rest of Lemmy it feels like I'm just looking at Reddit again. I'm so glad I found this shithole. mwah. 
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/502637 > I know I'm posting this on the Internet in an open forum but I don't want anyone else interacting with it. Since I said that, if anyone interacts with this post you're brigading my post. Interacting includes: > > - Upvoting > - Posting > - Sharing it outside of the forum > - Crossposting it to another community > - Viewing my post > - Thinking about my post in any capacity > > Thanks in advance for not brigading my post. I appreciate it.
Its garlic pizza so sadly his begging is in vain.
Cozy brigade time  
I don't want random techbros coming in, hence why I'm posting on Den. I hope this is ok. I'm teaching an online composition class this summer. I got two essays from students that cited sources that don't exist. I called them out on it. Here's what happened. One copped to using Bard, but then sent a second essay that still clearly reeks of gen AI or other horseshit. The other copped to using a GenAI search engine unwittingly, and has tried to claim they've read things that, by all accounts, they haven't. Normally, I would have just failed these students for writing hundreds of words on material that doesn't exist. But I really wanted them to go beyond a basic cop and explain their reasons for using this. This is in part since I have administrative duties around GenAI this year in our program. So I wanted to get data for my fellow instructors (i.e. here's what the student did, here's how we can design better assignments that both teach more carefully and also are harder to use GenAI on, etc. etc.) Instead, I've just hit a brick wall from them. They're insisting that it was only a research error, even though by all accounts, these essays shouldn't exist since the majority is written on things that just literally aren't out there. Again, they wrote about things that don't exist as if they do. That's GenAI in a nutshell. It's some of the most blatant shit. And these students are still trying to justify their work. What bugs me most, however, isn't the students. It's the fact that technology like this was thrown out into the ether without any fucking guard rails. These students don't realize the problems with it, so they're fucking themselves. And while maybe they would have found some other way to do this kind of lazy work pre-ChatGPT, the accessibility of these LLM models means that more students will do stupid shit like this and fail, instead of trying to learn. I'm very doomer about this stuff, not because of some AI takeover, but the total enshittification of everything. The  episode on it was very good on the other serious labor implications as well. However, there's also a ton of potential added labor or shittiness in the affected fields. After all, my instructors will have to work more for the same amount of pay OR just not bother policing it. Either outcome is terrible. While I'm going to do my damndest to try and help my colleagues build assignments that remain rigorous and have guiderails to avoid genAI production, the fact is, eventually it's coming for all of us. And even if it doesn't take our jobs, it's going to make us all more miserable. Because there's not the structures in place for FALGSC or anything. So we're going to lay people off, pay them less, remove some of the most human pursuits, and for what? A bot that's slightly more convenient and less accurate than wikipedia? I'd love for someone to un-doomer me about this stuff, but it's just very depressing. I needed to vent among friends. Thanks for listening folks. I'm still a  at heart, but god damn is it hard to keep up in the face of material conditions.
And we get Nick Mullen to come by and do an impression of Joe Biden but he's bisexual
Mods can we build a fireplace in here? I just finished watching Nomads with Pierce Brosnan and it was really fun! IT HAS GHOST PUNKS AS THE MAIN ANTAGONISTS! GHOST PUNKS! Gonna knock out now. Night yall!
Looking for one? Take a look in the mirror.
This is the shitposting thread for the week of September 3-9! Talk about your shitposting journey here! Health is of paramount importance: we can’t struggle, do praxis, act in solidarity, read theory or even post if we’re unhealthy. But how can we know we’re healthy? We can rely on doctors, but even if a bear has the resources and opportunity to see the doctor they might not be able to do so as often as they worry about their health. We can rely on how we feel, but just like our pets can conceal pain from us, our feelings aren’t always the best indicator of what’s going on inside us. We could just go by what we put in our bodies, but that relies on the assumption that we’re healthy and has no diagnostic value. To borrow a car metaphor: we have to look at the exhaust gasses and used motor oil and transmission fluids to have a clear picture of what’s going on inside the sealed engine of our bodies! I’m eating Raisin Bran 3-4 times a week to maintain a safe, healthy diet and keep myself regular! Some resources: [Bristol stool scale](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale#/media/File%3ABristolStoolChart_(cropped).png) - use to judge the amount of time food is staying in your digestive system. Most bears will want a 3 or 4.
I didn't ask for it but i personally think a local only comm is a good idea so I'm making a post
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