Clinton Kinkade

ADOBE 👏🏼 READER 👏🏼 SHOULD 👏🏼 DEFAULT 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 ENABLE 👏🏼 SCROLLING 👏🏼. I'm sure there's a reason why someone wouldn't want scrolling enabled at some point, but why on earth would they assume that is the norm?? Don't people typically want to scroll in their PDFs???

Becoming increasingly convinced that humanities academics need to clean up our own house before admins or students will listen to us about AI in the university.

LLM text in publication = automatic reject.
Using AI to grade or lesson plan = major ethical breach.

People should lose tenure for this.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

looks like shit.

Call me Ishmael.

I do disagree strongly in re Oreos, it must be said, but so what?!

As a hater, I love this whole thread. This account is great, and people need to calm down!

Maybe there’s something about the gamification of everything that causes people to submit to thinking about strategic discourse only in terms of what might win the next election. I get it, winning is better than losing. But the reason to call Trump a fascist is you need to make fascism more toxic

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

I have some more bad news.

If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.

Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

These goons are flabby weaklings and cowards, the loser servants of a loser president whose policy of domestic authoritarian 'raids' has been defeated at every turn by plucky, mobilized, civic-minded citizens who banded together to protect their neighbors.

That's the good narrative, in my view.

How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

What Every Non-Fiction Book Is Called Now we all remember the “tiny things we know to be small” title crisis of 2022 but we ought not overlook nonfiction titles like

nonfiction titles today:

First Things: Why The Morning Ends (And Why It Doesn’t Have To)
Pasta Fabulous
1927: The Year Before 1928
What Costco Can Teach Us About China, and What China Can Teach Us About Strategy

www.thechatner.com/p/what-every...

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:

they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

i beseech you to read 3rd voice web comic rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It's gift guide time!!!

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

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It’s an exercise in infantilization to do everything you can to prevent a student from taking a shortcut. Let them develop their own agency if they want to. Use your time as an educator to come up with assignments that are good on their own merits & not bc they flummox a probability machine.

I am not going to arrest the intellectual development of my students by offering them opportunities exclusively to write within 75-minute blocks of time.

It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.

Keep the college essay.

You don't have to fulfill the prophecy that the college essay is dead because some jaded dudes in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and NYT told you so two years ago.

It's OK. You can keep the essay.

None of the websites that include this invented word seem to be especially load-bearing or significant, but you gotta check your sources folks! Mostly, though, I am amused that κεντρόνη now exists, floating about the internet thanks entirely to human error and the vagaries of chance.