John Gallagher

Quote: "You're new here, ain'tcha, kid? Well, on some days the sandwiches contain a dead scorpion. ... Not every day,
but some days-that's why it's hell, kid."

This remains my all time favorite farside

There’s something supremely addictive about original data collection

Dear Diary,

It's week 7 of the semester. I've given up sugar. I promise I'm not eating a slice of pizza at 9 am.

My fourth grader discovered Terry Pratchett. It's lovely.

Thank you!

Thank you!

The Managerial Model of AI writing Introduction

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"The Managerial Model of AI writing"

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Blueberry scones. That’s the post.

What the best books about time travel that you think would teach well to undergrads?

Michelle Obama started an exercise initiative for kids and the Republicans acted apoplectic about it for years

I know pointing out the hypocrisy is pointless—I know it

But if any Democrat even hinted that Americans might should *maybe* consider changing their habits in the slightest way

Fox News hosts would have been performatively hosing down steaks on air 24/7 for at least a month

I think there are some lessons to take from the research lab group approach

My not-related to my field academic take: capitalism is a myth sold to us by simply a reclassification of feudalism. I’ve read Marx, Beckert, Woods, Hobsbawn, Sweezy, Federici, Wang, Weber, Harvey, etc. I’m not convinced feudalism ever really left us. Maybe BECAUSE I read all of them.

Inbox 0 as of 6:54 am.

*Throws laptop into Mordor*

My lunch

We've gotten to the "waking up at 5 am to send emails" part of the semester.

Finally. YEARS OF WATER POLO PAYING OFF.

we did this in practice. You'd have a dry run of running plays on land and then get in the pool for wet run. "Let's run it wet!"

(I was all state and all american, i might add)

Congrats Ted!

Yesterday, I made a brie and raspberry jam sandwich on multigrain bread. I cannot recommend it enough. It's delicious.

There is much joy to sitting around without screens, thinking through something, frustrated out of your mind.

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In case you wonder what I do that‘s NOT GenAI, look no further! Using NLP, we analyzed about 22 million comments with a focus on vaccine sentiment. We found that vaccine sentiment is always lower than the baseline, pre-Covid, during 2020, & post-2020.

journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/...

Lots of open questions remain, results are complex. But hey, it’s not about ChatGPT

In case you wonder what I do that‘s NOT GenAI, look no further! Using NLP, we analyzed about 22 million comments with a focus on vaccine sentiment. We found that vaccine sentiment is always lower than the baseline, pre-Covid, during 2020, & post-2020.

journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/...

So there's a lot going on, but I got headbutted by my fourth grader (by accident) so I'll be going to work this week with a fat bruised upper lip.

All of the AI stuff feels related to the transactional politics, a post pandemic dehumanizing drive to efficiency, and the depopulating of users from media while increasing bots and algorithms. It feel just hollow to me

There are a lot of critiques here. For me, there is a deep sadness here about the divorce of a literature review from the analytical framework. I enjoy reading papers, identifying a conversation. That conversation helps me to design my study. Otherwise, it all sorta ends up transactional.

I've frequently been using a version of this with students post-pandemic. There is a joy to frustration, joy to writing to get out ideas. Struggle is the only thing that makes success feel intrinsically (not transactionally) good.

Okay, I will check it out! Thank you so much.