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Alex Halavais

@halavais.bsky.social
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flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Given the Manosphere / fascist "my dad can beat up your dad" energy out there, it's interesting to note that 71% of Democratic women think they could kick Trump's ass, and only 46% of Republican men think they can. The TDS of thinking Trump could even stand up to a stiff breeze is amazing.
Bar chart from YouGov.
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Who else's canvas is hit? Maybe having a single university (or many, many universities and schools) centralized learning system isn't the security boon we imagine...
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Over the last week, everyone who knows I am on faculty at ASU has wanted to talk about ASU Atomic, a new effort to create "personalized learning modules" by cutting up existing course materials—including lecture videos—and reassembling them into AI-generated... alex.halavais.net/atomized-prof
A GenAI image of a monster prof created out of stolen video clips.
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Was looking for images of the X ddos, but all I can find is this...
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This poster, which was designed in 1939 to be posted should an occupation occur, is available as an SVG on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fr...
"FREEDOM IS IN PERIL: DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT"
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is our new deputy FBI director: internet troll threatening liberal "pussies" who are going to "find out" what comes next.
Post from Dan Bongino calling libs "pussies" who are going to find out what "comes next."
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This from one of the lost boys currently routing around in our private data. But I'm sure he's figure out how to do this without ChatGPT by now, right? ... Right?
Tweet by Luke Farritor: Are there LLMs made specifically for parsing things like documents/forms/PDFs/json/jtml/excel/etc and converting them from one format to another?
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
On a Web Archive fueled nostalgia tour. In 2000, I set up a blog for teaching one of my courses at the University of Washington. Total kluge of poorly written Perl. But a heck of a lot of fun to do. (And a great course to teach!)
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New Yorker cartoon. Gorey's Figbash character being walked like a dog and encountering someone else walking a dog. Caption reads "He's a gorey doodle."
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Kid just sent me this compilation of photos from an outing to the Tower and Sky Garden last fall. As close to TilTok as I'm getting.
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As my Google Docs have become unmanageable, I keep being reminded of "Mr. Google," a comic published in 1921.
4-panel comic from 1921, referring to a filing clerk named "Mr. Google."
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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The boys took their mom to a macaron-making class. I get to judge their efforts.
Three cardboard boxes with different colors of homemade macarons.
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