kelin

@kelin.bsky.social

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here for the love of the game

ryan, kelin, and evan assembling poetry cameras at a table
hand holding a poetry camera against a sky blue background
lavender novelty flip phone with keypad and small screen
me standing in front of a slide from my talk which says: "I don't have the answers. Nobody does!"
photo of hand holding a risd mug in front of a kitchen table with a bunch of crap on it
cardboard box, closed, printed with an outline of poetry camera on top and the bubbly “poetry camera” logo on the sides
tweet by me from april 22, 2023: "weird thing about recovering from depression is that many years later, it still feels surreal to not be depressed. like what’s the catch, why am i happy"
Article screenshot: “Generative AI tools [...] are the latest in a long line of technologies that raise questions about their impact on the quality of human thought, a line that includes writing (objected to by Socrates), printing (objected to by Trithemius), calculators (objected to by teachers of arithmetic), and the Internet,” the researcher wrote. “Such consternation is not unfounded. Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” I, for example, am old enough to remember a time when I memorized the phone numbers of many friends and family members. The only number I remember now that all those contacts are saved on my phone is my own. I also remember when I first moved to San Francisco for college I bought a little pocket map and eventually learned to navigate the city and which Muni busses to take where. There are very few places I can get to today without Google Maps. I don’t feel particularly dumb for outsourcing my brain’s phonebook to a digital contacts list, but the same kind of outsourcing could be dangerous in a critical job where someone is overrelying on AI tools, stops using critical thinking, and incorporates bad outputs into their work.
screenshot of Atlantic headline from 2008: Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains By Nicholas Carr
tweet from @theesabina on Twitter: If i was in college trying to learn design rn I'd genuinely crash out over trying to learn pure design in my classes vs seeing all the AI code design tools telling me to skip that part
meme of paris hilton looking carefree, with text "u found it cringe / i found it foun / that's why i'm happier than u"
using max's new drag and drop interface, i made a little circular pattern of leaves, flowers, and caterpillars circling around a sun
the four evangelical men from the article, wearing clergy attire, with article text below: Before our group got started, boy, I was asking myself some big questions about life. One of my sayings is, “What am I going to be when I grow up?” Even though I’m 68 and these guys are 64 and 65, I will still joke with them, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” Because we’re still growing.
wack-ass typeface for a wired article (headline "Mira Murati's AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive")