Travis

A brown six-plex in a mixed density Minneapolis neighborhood with cars parked on the street in front.

This is the ideal middle-density body. You may not like it, but this is what peak urban performance looks like.

Rufo retweet of "Faced with falling revenues, universities are announcing across-the-board spending freezes. Instead, they should differentiate between sane departments and those that have lost their way. Departments captured by post-modernists should be cut, to allow adequate funding for others."

Fash trying to figure out how to make NIH/NSF cuts kill the humanities, which don't get NIH/NSF funds.

People being able to feed themselves matters but purchasing power isn’t a good proxy for political power

Unironically, we need to be talking about why people feel like they can’t afford to buy beans and why they want to talk about that rather than the fact that some people can afford to buy elections

The burrito discourse is really a rare intersection of my love of beans and my interest in rhetoric

I have no idea what distinguishes critical thinking from thinking.

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.

But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

I watched it before I read Foster but the film adaptation, The Quiet Girl, is also wonderful!

I know I shouldn't expect better from the big commercial publishers, but explaining to someone who cant afford an APC ways you can make an article OA (waivers, beg etc.) without ever mentioning green is unethical in my eyes.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

*products of LLMs

This is really Process Pedagogy 101 but it bears thinking about what sorts of skills we're teaching when we approach the products LLMs as something that can be edited and fact-checked into something of acceptable quality.

While I'm sympathetic to the perspective of "give the garbage ChatGPT paper the grade it deserves," this really gets at the problem with that: writing is thinking and if we're not asking students to write, we're not asking them to think.

Well worth a read to the end.

The big mistake the brittle authoritarian reactionary version of masculinity makes is in believing courage is a physical quality, rather than a moral quality.

Not to be corny but this seems like the decision of a lifelong public servant who decided to listen to the guidance of the people around him. It seems admirably humble to know and recognize your limitations.

amplify this not unverified reports until we know more