Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

Revalue what you really want to work on - yeah I do that but then I don’t get time to do it bec I need to write feedback to machine generated texts

Defunding happened prior to gen AI but the latter makes the effects of the former even worse bec of exponential workload. This is not just about publish or perish

That blogpost about AI is not the biggest problem in academia (general defunding and devaluation is)- yes and no bec they are enforcing each other in acceleration and intensity

Rules don’t matter anymore … I also need to realise this now

gen-AI is breaking academia and democracy an if you are an academic and use it for non legit purposes you should be ashamed of betraying professional ethos

This makes me sad bec that’s what I thought but the reality nowadays is that a professor spends most time giving human feedback to gen-AI essays for box ticking exercise. No time for learning, thinking. Still sinking islands of intellectual community in pockets of resistance.

I don’t like to respond to daily news like this but today I just can’t anymore

Insanity

I don’t know if there is any buy in except being dragged into a mess with no upside for the traditional US allies

1/Can US maintain European and East Asian buy-in for an extended Iran War?

The pain will multiply:energy, food,commodities, refugees, regional stability...

Coalition mgmt during wartime is very hard because countries face unequal burdens & have their own domestic politics.
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Not sure what’s worse, that or someone hard inputting/destroying an entire sheet so that there were no formulas and audit trails left (it was a staffing sheet)

Three paragraphs from the NYT describing how four A.I. chatbots did a bad job preparing federal income tax returns in the US.

“Using a system you shouldn’t trust with your taxes to blow people up. 2026 in a nutshell.” #GenerativeAI #AI #chatbots open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

“Our real kin are those we have chosen.”

(from Guy Davenport’s journals)

The world is getting closed and not in a good way …

Ideally not but if necessary will do… the Russian airspace is still open to Chinese airlines I think but has been closed to Korean carriers since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Diasporic people will know this sinking feeling from Covid

Flight radar map of flights over ME

Europe to Asia flights operating through a small window of Georgia and northern Azerbaijan only now, I need to get to my parents end of this month 🙏😓

My favourite special day and the children look so delightful 🥰

Saying the quiet part loud is a new level of admission

Look I know you like vibe coding in Claude but Claude likes doing double tap strikes on elementary schools so maybe giving them your money is straight up wrong

am not a worrier type much, but the past hour with sri lanka and turkey territories getting hit makes me wonder

feeling unease. how far can this war spread. dismissing ww3, but now also feels like it won't be territorially contained to the region only.

v much empathise. deep sense of alienation.

So gooood. This collection: Irma turned bourgeois, but her true self is hard to repress...

invincible irma vep vibes, barely audibly hushing: "byeeee, losers"

"responsible AI use" and "AI literacy" but not considering impact on marking and assessment

things that keep me from work:

- gen-AI use by students and in article submissions for peer reviews bec i don't want to police cheating but have to, otherwise why academia, at all

- wars (a friend calls them "macro sadness factors")

- racists (esp lefties and the ones who think they are "nice")

good luck to "research excellence" for academics who also teach in institutions who have not switched their assessment methods to in vivo modes.

gen-AI destroying unprepared university standards is keeping me from reading and writing for a month now. so much for productivity. so much for free excess labour.

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.