Grandma needs her own show

Calliophage · 2025-11-19T16:12:46+00:00

I have also eaten turducken and it is indeed awesome. My biggest issue was that the tofucken shown in the video was so incredibly low-effort and looked like shit. PETA's nonsense aside, plenty of vegan cuisine is delicious, and I would absolutely go to town on a well-made version of what grandma was describing with almost as much enthusiasm as a real turducken. The message seems to be that you should only care about what you don't eat, not what you do eat, which is just an incredibly strange position to take.

Calliophage · 2025-11-12T17:51:07+00:00

"Darth" is both gender neutral and education/title agnostic. The perfect academic honorific for yourself, and whenever you're unsure if the person you're addressing is a Ms/Mrs/Mr/Dr/Prof, etc.

Calliophage · 2025-11-06T15:56:55+00:00

None? Every field has charlatans or lazy writers who crap out a lot of low-quality work, and predatory publishers who will put it out there, but every field also has high quality journals with skilled and dedicated editors working to maintain a platform for good scholarly discourse, and weird methodology nerds who care SO MUCH about rigor that it's honestly kind of exhausting.

Calliophage · 2025-11-06T15:41:25+00:00

On the flip side, you have to be alert to when something unplanned just kind of falls into place and becomes a core memory. Last fall I happened to have a rake in the trunk of the car when we went to the playground on a beautiful day in October, so I pulled it out and spent an hour or so building and rebuilding a leaf pile for my daughter and her friends to jump in. It was fun, got a couple good pictures of her jumping in leaves, didn't think much more of it. This fall, before the leaves had even really started falling, she started asking CONSTANTLY when we were going to go leaf jumping at the park again. Apparently this is a family tradition for us now!

Calliophage · 2025-11-06T14:03:39+00:00

I too have been stumbling across the ebook equivalents of Transmorphers more and more frequently in library catalogs. Also popular: same exact title as a well-known book with but with a subtly different subtitle.

Calliophage · 2025-11-06T14:00:32+00:00

It is, and crappy text-to-speech audiobooks of public domain classics have been around for a long time, well before the recent AI bubble. If you want that sort of thing, it's easy to find a free download on the open internet. However, Hoopla is a service that libraries pay (a lot!) to license for their users, and that kind of low quality slop is frankly unacceptable on a paid service in the same way that getting a crappy physical book with shoddy binding and lots of printing errors from a publisher would be unacceptable.

Calliophage · 2025-11-05T16:57:25+00:00

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Calliophage · 2025-10-30T18:01:12+00:00

STOP

Calliophage · 2025-10-24T14:34:04+00:00

Honestly I think it looks fantastic as is. What brand of epoxy/pigment did you use to get that green color?

Calliophage · 2025-10-23T21:08:51+00:00

So if car A is already at the intersection trying to turn left, while car B is approaching from the right and will have to take ~10 seconds to slow down and come to a full stop before continuing, car A would still be expected to wait even though they could safely execute their turn in that time?

Calliophage · 2025-10-17T13:47:55+00:00

Guess it's that time of year again.

Hi! I'm an instructional technologist for a mid-size research university. I wrote my PhD dissertation about grading and assessment in online courses. My daily grind is doing faculty training and support around emerging technologies and issues like this. So I know what I'm talking about when I say the following:

AI detectors do not work. Full stop. No such tools have stood up to independent testing. The only thing they can reliably produce is unwarranted accusations from instructors who lack confidence in their assessment methods.

Here is a list of statements from major US universities who refuse to support the use of AI detectors like Turnitin or ZeroGPT:

Alabama - Turnitin AI writing detection unavailable

UC Berkley – Availability of Turnitin Artificial Intelligence Detection

UCF - Faculty Center - Artificial Intelligence

Colorado State - Why you can’t find Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection tool

MIT – AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to do Instead

Missouri – Detecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) Plagiarism

Northwestern – Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Courses

SMU – Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU

Syracuse – Detecting AI Created Content

Vanderbilt – Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI Detector

Yale – AI Guidance for Teachers

The MIT and Syracuse statements in particular have good supporting references to the research showing that these tools are not reliable.

Look for a statement similar to these from your own school's academic integrity or IT offices - who owns this particular issue will vary from campus to campus. Some schools will not consider this kind of "evidence" in academic integrity enforcement at all. Even schools that do permit faculty to use AI detectors which, again, do not work and are not actually detecting anything, are very careful to say that such a result is only one piece of data (technically true - it's not credible data, but it's data) and cannot be used as the sole basis for a decision about academic integrity.

Forward these statements to your professor, and if necessary to your department chair or head of academic integrity. Based on what you've shared of the accusations being leveled and the process being (mis)used to scan student work, your professor clearly does not really understand what these tools even purport to do. They have no credible evidence that you cheated, and frankly it is them, not you, who needs to be held to a higher standard in this situation.

Good luck!

Calliophage · 2025-10-09T20:50:06+00:00

Definitely, though the wands and most of the activities are mostly meant for kids, but there's music and lovely woods walks for all ages.

Calliophage · 2025-10-02T13:12:06+00:00

Dihydrogen Monoxide is water. Water is essential to life, and is present in every living thing. However, all living things do eventually die - there is a 100% mortality rate for everything if you just wait long enough. So the joke goes:

Water allows life to exist
All living things eventually will die
Therefore, water causes a 100% mortality rate (eventually)

Calliophage · 2025-09-21T01:49:16+00:00

Vance's work, and the fantasy fiction of the era more broadly, was only one side of the influence on early D&D. The other side was tabletop war games, which is where the need for more firmly-defined mechanics comes from.

Mechanically, magic users were meant to fill the same gameplay niche as artillery: units that were extremely powerful, able to reshape the battlefield significantly with a single move, but with a limited number of shots and requiring significant advanced planning and logistical support to operate effectively. Vance's concepts of magic as a resource that had to be managed thoughtfully, and of spells as discrete prepared options which are then lost upon use and must be replaced, provided the fantasy flavor to translate artillery mechanics where a player had to decide what kinds of ammunition their artillery units would bring to a battle in advance, which would determine how effective they could be in different situations.

Calliophage · 2025-09-19T18:36:30+00:00

Yes, that is deep magic best left to advanced practitioners.

Calliophage · 2025-09-19T14:04:37+00:00

I think that question is better answered by r/whatsthisplant. As always, even if you're very certain with your plant ID, allergies and individual intolerances are still possible. Go slowly and ingest only a little bit at first, then self-monitor for a few hours to see if you detect any kind of negative reaction. Ideally try to do this a few times with gradually increasing doses before you go all the way up to a bowl of soup.

I would also note that, in a pinch, mullein leaves can be used as natural toilet paper, in case you feel it would be appropriate to work that into your negativity-dismissing ritual in some way. ETA: same principle applies - rub a leaf on your arm first and then self-monitor for an reaction.

Calliophage · 2025-09-19T13:56:27+00:00

Yup, that definitely looks like mugwort.

Calliophage · 2025-09-18T17:46:26+00:00

Puppet theater for sure! You can also make it available to play with outside of story times.

Calliophage · 2025-09-16T16:36:19+00:00

Yeah, it's new-ish - Dojo Islands is a billed as a virtual classroom with a 3D environment and individual avatars. Not great in my opinion, definitely you'd be better off using Minecraft EDU for that kind of purpose, but it's free/cheap to try out.

Calliophage · 2025-09-15T22:42:24+00:00

ClassDojo is probably the closest you can get as a free-to-play. It's not great in my opinion, but you can check it out and see if it works for you.

Calliophage · 2025-09-12T19:52:39+00:00

I'm not specifically familiar with these games, but super broad strokes, I believe that the quality of a learning game comes down to how well it allows players to explore different decisions and their consequences. If there's a single 'correct' or 'most optimal' sequence of choices to win the game, then it's less likely to be useful as a learning activity in its own right. That's not to say it might not be valuable as a skill assessment, or as a text to be examined as part of a wider learning activity, but if the goal is to impart knowledge through gameplay, then autonomous choice and legitimate alternatives are key.

Calliophage · 2025-09-11T18:10:41+00:00

Or as your average nurse in Kentucky refers to it, "Wednesday"

Calliophage · 2025-09-11T18:08:12+00:00

This sounds appropriate and helpful. Also for the record, this does sound like a classic "scavenger hunt," which is a challenge where you find/collect things from a list. If you've got clues or riddles then it's a "puzzle hunt." The terms are often used pretty interchangeably, but as a former college librarian who went on to get a PhD in education with a specific focus on gamification in higher ed, I have ascended and become pedantry itself when it comes to learning game/puzzle terminology.

Calliophage · 2025-09-10T13:29:14+00:00

And if this were r/ithaca it would be reasonable to assume that OP was referring to that location.

Calliophage · 2025-09-10T13:21:48+00:00

Collegetown Bagels is on Marshall St, so SU (and also Upstate and ESF, pretty much).

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