I assume it’s just the shop owner saying “yeah we can’t do the sale we usually do there bc it’s currently closed to the public”?
Like, this ad is from a 2024 email I guess I never deleted, they for sure did these sales regularly. (Which I am guessing you already knew?)
![Figure A12. Median and interquartile range of exam scores by homework completion time.
[Graph showing Exam Score on the y-axis (ranging from 60 to 120) and Homework Completion Time (Minutes) on the x-axis (ranging from 20 to 80).]
Legend:
- Generative AI (dark red line with light red shaded area)
- No Generative AI (dark blue line with light blue shaded area)
- Pre-AI Mean Exam Score (thin light red line)
The graph shows the Generative AI group starting with lower exam scores (around 70) at 20-25 minutes, rising sharply to meet the No Generative AI group around 55 minutes, and then tracking closely together up to 80 minutes. The Pre-AI Mean Exam Score line starts high at 20 minutes and remains relatively flat around 100 throughout the duration.
Note: The figure plots the median and interquartile ranges of exam scores by homework completion time, separately for AI students and non-AI students. It also plots the mean exam score for the AI students before the month they start using generative AI. The data are at the student-month level and the sample is that shown in Panel A of Table 1 with non-missing observations for homework time. There is little evidence of selection, except at the very low and high end, where students are positively selected.
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![Lux Alptraum is a writer, sex educator, media producer, and consultant whose work focuses on sexuality, gender, technology, misinformation, and cultural attitudes toward women and sex. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, WIRED, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Hustler. She is also described by WIRED as a Peabody-nominated writer.
Her most prominent work is likely her 2018 book, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex—and the Truths They Reveal. The book examines cultural assumptions that women are dishonest about sex—such as supposedly faking orgasms, lying about sexual history, or making false accusations—and argues that these ideas reflect social anxiety, sexual shame, and unequal power structures more than any inherent tendency toward deception.
Other notable work includes:
• Serving as editor, publisher, and CEO of Fleshbot, a major sex and adult-entertainment blog formerly associated with Gawker Media.
• Cofounding Out of the Binders, the nonprofit behind BinderCon, a professional-development conference for women and gender-nonconforming writers.
• Working as a development producer on Fusion’s Sex.Right.Now., a Peabody-nominated television project.
• Creating and co-hosting the Audible podcast Say You’re Sorry, about public apologies.
• Hosting and co-writing season two of New York Magazine’s Tabloid, which explored the cultural impact of the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee sex tape.
Sources: Hachette Book Group author/book page, WIRED author page, Lux Alptraum’s official site, and Salon’s profile of her Fleshbot leadership.
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![The additional research corroborates the earlier summary and strengthens it with independent sources. In particular, it confirms:
• Faking It was published November 6, 2018.
• Say You’re Sorry launched on Audible September 9, 2021.
• Alptraum co-founded Out of the Binders/BinderCon with Leigh Stein.
• Her recent WIRED work covers reproductive misinformation, sex technology, adult-content policy, and deepfake pornography.
No changes to the core characterization are necessary.
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![Atwood then collects a series of over seventy answers to the question of why writers write. Only two include "[t]o make money"; the others, while more varied, regularly invoke notions of compulsion, overflowing desire, and other excesses:
Because I knew I had to keep writing or else I would die.... To please myself.... To thumb my nose at Death.... Because to create is human. Because to create is Godlike.... To attract the love of a beautiful woman.... To thwart my parents. To spin a fascinating tale. To amuse and please the reader. To amuse and please myself.... Graphomania. Compulsive loghorrhea. Because I was driven to it by some force outside my control. Because I was possessed. Because an angel dictated to me. Because I fell into the embrace of the Muse. Because I got pregnant by the Muse and needed to give birth to a book.... To act out antisocial behavior for which I would have been punished in real life....
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![It is in this context that humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power, where peace no longer appears as a responsibility to be taken on, but as a fragile interval between conflicts. Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the "just war" theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated. [182] Humanity possesses far more effective and capable tools for promoting human life and resolving conflicts, such as dialogue, diplomacy and forgiveness. The use of force, violence and weapons reflects a relational poverty that always has disastrous consequences for civilian populations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ig3mxmh73uvke6znr22byv2v/bafkreigwvckgfxrmbhvjnrk4ihuvle4k5bo643dxm3naex37ej46mo2iou)
