Andrew Tobolowsky

If it were me, I’d set the pub date for November and then bring it out early

I have had just about ENOUGH of you tectonics

I don’t think I have a problem with AI obituaries unless they become mandatory. Some people aint writers and what feels right to them at that difficult time is their business. I care more when ppl want me to pay for something AI wrote, and most when it keeps ppl from developing skills

We have tears in our eyes reading this piece. Obama put it perfectly!

Please make my alma mater, Brown, look worse

Never heard of either!

I have been a Hebrew Bible professor for a decade and I have never heard either of these terms!

What?

you absolutely, absolutely cannot forestall the switch back by being conservative lite

One thing the UK has going for it is that you don't have to wait four years after they do something so dumb and destructive to fix things but both nations could take a lesson from 1) the fact that huge liberal surges from ppl hating what conservatives do have not been REMOTELY durable and 2)

Again, teachers would not be complaining so much about AI if the problem was that it's cheating. They're doing it because their students are a whole lot worse. Which is the opposite of what these AI tutor bits promise.

I really think a lot of people don't realize that the argument "students don't have to learn these skills because AI can do them and they're not valuable anymore" and the argument "AI can help students learn better" are in tension with each other. I can tell you the second one is 10000000% false

And this is all so divorced from reality! Do you think professors are complaining about students using AI because they’re doing so well in class? Or is it because none of this shit works and it seems like they’re not learning anything at all

This post and clip both read as if they're the setup for an "and here's what we're going to do about it" post, but ... no. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Just "Here's what the GOP is doing." That's the message.

It's also like for the love of god just imagine a college class. Imagine what it's called, like "the history of Europe in the Age of Exploration." Does teaching them how to "use it responsibly" require that it be used in literally every class, however relevant, or might one or two classes cut it

Nothing has hurt our media environment as much as the media deciding to deal with accusations of partisanship by choosing to just print anything anyone says as if it could be true

unpopularity of the action itself, and in fact, a lot of Dem states CAN'T easily gerrymander BECAUSE they were the only ones who passed laws keeping them from being able to do it

the propaganda value of appearing to be the morally superior party, or the persuasion value of CONSEQUENCES. Gerrymandering back isn't just practical electorally, it's practical bc it might make the GOP think twice about doing it. Instead, they just gain seats, which shields them from the

But, this move was still neither. 1) The GOP does not need much popularity to win, and things like gerrymandering are meant to make sure they need less, so doing a slightly more popular thing isn't practically effective for winning elections. but 2) the real question is what is worth more:

Because they thought that being seen as the pro-democracy, moral party would help them win elections. In other words, it was supposed to be effective both practically and as propaganda. And I actually believe that the average person does kind of like the idea.

To my mind, gerrymandering represents one of the most illustrative failures of the democratic party. Faced with the last round of aggressive GOP efforts, they fought for bipartisan commissions. They did this both bc, if more states adopted them, that would be good and helpful AND, as usual -

Maybe why have you left me on read?

I’m looking at the list and I’m wondering if any really long term tanking team has won the chip. Maybe the Thunder count but SGA was what, an eleventh pick?

Tanking was never better than the treadmill of mediocrity. Tanking means you get so bad everything has to go so right, being mid means you have stuff to trade

I keep saying that the reason that Trump is likely to get away with this message is that our country hates taxes so much they don't even know what they are. So tariffs are gov revenue, you say? Bc they're paid by a group of Americans - to the government?

The other thing about it is IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE BEST USE CASE SCENARIOS ARE. STUDENTS ARE USING IT TO CHEAT AND NOT LEARN ANYTHING. HOW YOU INTEND FOR A PRODUCT TO BE USE DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER

Stephen Miller, too.

My first apt in Hampton Roads, the bathroom truly felt like it was in the next apt's kitchen for how clear their conversations were.

If you said that losing money and prestigious grants in the short term could be good for the university in the long term they truly would not understand the concept

The basic thing I think is that in the corporatized university, bovs are conservative and the job of the prez is pretty much just fundraising and getting new cv lines so the idea of standing up for a principle or the institution in a way that costs it $ doesn’t even make sense to many of them