Patrick De Oliveira

Al Overview Men in New York have done countless things throughout history, from building the city to participating in major events like the Stonewall riots and the September 11 attacks. Their actions have ranged from daily life and economic hardship during the Great Depression to playing significant roles in the city's political and social landscape, such as the assassination of Malcolm X or the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator

Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades The software company wrote to Australian customers to apologise for a lack of transparency when it increased fees for Office plans by up to 45 per cent.

Pretty obvious that given how there's no real avenue for profits, LLM enshittification is going to proceed at a breakneck speed.

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Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲, ‘𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬?’ 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐁𝐒 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝.

This quote issued by Bari Weiss as she destroys what is left of CBS News neatly captures the zeitgeist of the Age of Trump (and of LLMs).

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Two years ago I attended a panel about AI at a national conference of college trustees. Their conversation revolved around what do we have to say to get our faculty in line with this, and can we fire them if they don't.

“Die First, and I'll Pay You Later” The 79-page report, “‘Die First, and I’ll Pay You Later’: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Giga-Projects’ Built on Widespread Labor Abuses,” documents widespread abuses against migrant workers, some of which may amoun...

And, of course, all done through massive labor abuse and exploitation.

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

I had a student from Saudi Arabia who said that Neom was basically a project to quickly fill the pockets of some construction firm execs, but that MBS's fever dream would never really materialize.

My response? Yeah, that's been pretty obvious ever since it was announced.

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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

Long live sandwich guy!
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I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

Amazing how universities, many of which embraced the absurd practice of "trigger warnings" for works by Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and Chinua Achebe, have had no hesitancy in pushing students to become heavily dependent on a tool that causes and worsens mental distress.

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Yep. Our university has invited a “Silicon Valley futurist” to give an address lavishly sponsored by the president’s office to “teach us tips for how to integrate AI in our work, school, and home.”

Meanwhile I had to compete for $ to bring an award-winning scholar in my field to campus.

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

*Shocking* that health-tech companies would immediately turn to eugenics.

I am so sick and tired of repetitive workshops on how to integrate LLMs into your teaching. All I want is a single workshop on developing LLM-resilient assignments.

And smaller class sizes. That's it. That's pretty much the solution to 60% of the problems.

Oh wow a new browser how exciting

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Desperate for any viable monetization path, it seems that Smarmy Sam and OpenAI will open the doors for pornographic content.

How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

Dow drops 600 points, S&P 500 falls the most since April after Trump's China tariff threat: Live updates The Trump post sparked a rapid sell-off in stocks Friday.

Pretty obvious that the toddler-in-chief is now fully aware of his powers of market manipulation to facilitate the enrichment of his family and fellow cronies.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/s...

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

Is there a greater ghoul-producing factory than Wharton?

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Yesterday I saw someone proudly state that they used ChatGPT to write a preface for a friend’s book, since they were pressed on time. I then asked if they had told their friend that. The answer was a sheepish no, since apparently "some think it’s not real work."

Shame them with basic questions.

Those of you teaching history of ideas/intellectual history courses that are framed through primary texts: what kind of assignments have you designed to deal with LLMs? If in-class writing, how have you structured it so that students have resources to write while engaging with the texts?

That sounds great but also a lot of work with the constant feedback! How many students do you do this for?

I've considered something like a commonplace book! How do you go about in grading it (and how often)?

Time, access to texts and notes without access to LLMs, etc.

That being said, All my intellectual history classes during college were take-home essays. For me would be the ideal format, but still at a loss on how to implement.

20 to 30 students. No TAs.

Those of you teaching history of ideas/intellectual history courses that are framed through primary texts: what kind of assignments have you designed to deal with LLMs? If in-class writing, how have you structured it so that students have resources to write while engaging with the texts?

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

Nearly 1,400 words and Christopher Caldwell can't manage to provide a single tangible example of how "DEI" has actually hurt the military. But what to expect from someone who apparently thinks school segregation was better than the alternative, eh?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Indeed.

But I read the Pascal's Wager entry on wikipedia in between my sessions teaching students that profit = revenue-costs!

The Philosophical Bet We All Need to Make in the Age of AI Toby Stuart argues that the French philosopher Blaise Pascal can teach us how to make rational choices in the AI era.

On business faculty and the Malcolm Gladwellization of everything.

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