Chad Levinson

the students did not write their own stories, it turns out, and CK gets good press for stealing from graphic artists

I have to admit that for all the damage it does (environmental degradation, plagiarism, learning loss, dehumanization, etc) the thing that I will never get past is how utterly boring everything associated with AI is (including all discourse about AI)

And another institution fails

This is disgusting. Muting you instead of blocking so this reply won’t disappear.

I listened to the lifeless Olympic commentary of AI Michaels (that's AI spelled with a capital 'i') and I shudder to think of what this sounds like (no, I will not listen)

Read the bottom line: 21.8.

U Chicago used to suffer in various rankings because it had a rep for being nerdy and that shrank the application pool leading to a higher acceptance rate than its peers. Zimmer admin “fixed” that.

Lowering acceptance rates is an explicit goal for admins at a lot of schools (community colleges excluded, I hope). Improves ranking under a number of formulas.

What election?

It's crazy how much AI is like the your worst coworker.

Doesn't do their job right, steals your shit, isn't funny, and in the end you still have to redo all their work and for some god knows what reason your boss loves them and never fires them.

Oops, looks like Quillette found him first

He seems to have made his first appearance on The College Fix - “Breaking Campus News. Launching Media Careers,” opining on human gender, having studied the behavior of spiders.

Hold your grudges close during these dark times, for they shall light your way

My favorite dim sum place sells bags of 50, various types

Dude, just take responsibility for your own opinions and leave it at that. You like the ad and it annoys you that people are criticizing it. You're the men it turns away. Own it.

“Did you report the kidnapping?”

Libertarians tend to be white, financially secure men, safe from the coercive apparatus of the state but vulnerable to social censure. Hating wokeness more than a national police force is just in-group self-interest, all the more galling because they pretend to reject identity politics.

If you’ve got a local specialty grocer, check out their freezer. Wife and I stock frozen eggplant parm that we pop in the oven for an hour when we’re not in the mood to cook or get takeout.

AI most definitely asks for a pay raise

Fun fact: Nixon replaced Chuck Colson (on his way to prison) with (future AEI president and son of then-AEI president) Wm Baroody Jr, who helped coordinate the administration's attack on higher education (and think-tanks they considered to liberal). They've been doing this a long time.

I go with the radio feed (Cubs). Play by play requires real skill.

It also weakens his position if he doesn’t have to get approval back home. See R Putnam on 2-level games.

Hello, I am a woman in a 19th Century English novel and I have coughed once, so I am going to die of consumption.

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

Include religious leaders and it's even more lopsidedly conservative

Trevor Noah and Esther Perel have a really interesting conversation about a bunch of things, including this, on his My Favorite People podcast

Amazing how much Jeff Sessions once stood between the US and utter lawlessness

I've been out of tech for a long time now, but when I signed non-competes at that pay grade, they were hyper-specific to the product, and I could easily get a new job that wasn't in, say, email filter management.

Thing about making a deal w/ the devil is you need to sacrifice to be redeemed.

Under water, perhaps, but I wouldn't describe a low-point of 39% as "in the tank" and even then it was only for about a year, and then he recovered. And yes, there were things he did that worked against him, but that's hardly Iran-contra, impeachment, or the Iraq War

news.gallup.com/poll/113980/...

The programs they're cutting tend to be operationally self-sustaining as long as you do a little marketing to debunk the myth that these majors are unemployable