Greg Palermo

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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On ai use by university students

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS [Ama- zon Web Services] error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers. Namanyay Goel (2025, n.p.) To show how serious the situation has become, one need only think about our last round of mark- ing essays by AI undergraduate students. What jumps out of the page, for us, is something that con- tradicts the rhetoric our colleagues promote, namely, it is evident that students need moreessay work assigned to them, not less (Kosmyna et al. 2025). Almost every essay was poor on some dimension that does not befit students in their final years of undergraduate study: the writing is often super- ficial, the language does not reflect students’ stage and knowledge, citations are frequently misused, and (most shockingly because it is so easy), the reference style is not applied correctly. This means that the constellation of skills required to write a good academic essay has not been nurtured enough or has atrophied. What this means is also that regardless of factual LLM use by the students, their ability to write essays is on the floor, and not, as many seem to claim, at ceiling where one cannot differentiate a good essay from a plagiarised or otherwise dishonest attempt of an essay. Importantly, the training of writing skills should be done in the context of critical reckoning with the norms and pressures sur- rounding the work expected of students (i.e. high study load, so-called student excellence, financial pressure to graduate, etc.). In this context, it is also important to be wary of arguments that wrongly position LLMs as, mak- ing education more democratic, accessible, and equitable by removing language barriers, removing unequal access to mentorship, and increase diversity, equity and inclusion in…

This is what LLMs reduce academics to: rehashing basic research skills even in the final year students. It's honestly heartbreaking. It's not just random Bsky people, we see it at work all the time.

See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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You know that you can stop posting through this and admit a mistake right?

Cavers. Turncoats. Chickenshits. Fuckers.

This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Some Dems fuming about this deal.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth:

“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

This isn’t very hard, folks.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

I did not say it was a gotcha question.

I have a somewhat different take, which is that it’s adept of her and part of avoiding bad faith uptakes. Very necessary when pretty much every move you make ever is scrutinized in a double bind.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

What’s wild to me is that they are the alchemists in their own metaphor, and it seems like projection.

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

It never works. Ever..

Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.

This is genuinely horrifying. Who says that with a straight face as though it’s a good thing!?

No, it isn’t. That fallacy requires that there’s an argument about whether the person is a member of the group or not. And to protect a generalization. This person is saying you can’t generalize millennial sentiment based on an individual, which is the actual logical error here.

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

u know who are skeptics
scientists are skeptics

being anti-science is not being a skeptic

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.