Victoria Fedden

[Jude Atwood @JudeAtwood]

Orange County, California, has its problems, but on the plus side a lot of great true crime podcasts are set here.

[Victoria Fedden @widelawns]

For everyone who asks why I spend my summers in California every year. That said, I’m worried about everyone out east. Stay safe and hydrated.

[New Adventures of M H🎞️WK @MHawk9955]

I love how Californians are all just silent this week as the rest of the country enters a horrible heatwave while we’re looking at having some gorgeous weather for the holiday weekend.

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

shoutout to cats who get their claw stuck and then get pissed that you helped them

[Victoria Fedden @widelawns]

Please no. I have plans this weekend.

[The San Andreas Fault @sanandreafault]

Should I join the earthquake fun

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

No one is more annoyed by the AI revolution than people who can actually write a sentence. Basically, having any ability to write now is suspect - you will get accused of being AI at some point. It feels like you are being accused of being a witch, of holding a type of rare magic that only the machines are now allowed to have.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If using AI for writing means you never have to stop, backtrack, or start over, you’re missing the most important part of the process, writes @evefairbanks: https://t.co/ssdeN2l16j

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing.

honestly? it’s this.

[Erica Stevens @erica_d_stevens]

This is my AI policy (I teach writing) if anyone is interested. It links out to a bunch of TikTok videos. Need to give it an update soon. https://t.co/rg9IfqJAzM

[Colin📚 @TheBookshopMan]

I have just read #TheThingsWeNeverSay by @LizStrout.

Nuanced, subtle, heartbreaking and utterly brilliant. This is Strout's best book to date — somehow her books get better and better every time. She writes tangible characters that you root for. People who live in your heart. The way Strout fills the silences with complete love, a swirling internal world and utter devastation is unparalleled. She manages to capture the textures of life so elegantly. A masterful piece of contemporary literary fiction.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

We are announcing today that The American Revolution will stream for free in its entirety on all PBS platforms from May 25th through July 12. Hope you have a chance to watch, ideally with friends and family, as you think about our 250th anniversary this July 4th. https://t.co/c8fc6Sldj5

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

from the gospel of ina garten: you can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:

"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”

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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.

It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.

This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist who created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the US #WomensArt

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Mary Fedden (1915-2012) Cats by the Sea, 1981.
#caturday

[Musk_daily__news 🚀 📡 @Musk_DaiIy_news]

Hello again
Great poster for today
Sorry no illustrator I just love the positivity and brightness

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

May morning..
#LouisValtat #May1 #Muguet

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Lilac season

[Marisa Baldassaro @Nerdspringbreak]

My grandma Josephine would boil a head of cauliflower, remove it, and cook the pasta in the same water. She'd fry up the cauliflower in olive oil with a ton of garlic, lemon,salt,pepper,and red pepper flakes and mix it all together in the pasta. Top with Parmesan. So good

[helidona @helidona1]

Shufu Miyamoto (Japan, b.1950)

"Cherry blossoms under the moon"