Charles Wotton😷💉🚲

YouTube video by Jim Rossignol A Quick Look At The Dolmenwood Maps Book

As a part of my ongoing series "I Am A Hopeless Fantasy Maps Dork", I did a vid on what a GM is going to be able to get out of the Dolmenwood maps book. I own a whole bunch of fantasy atlases, and I have never seen one quite like this. (I know that's the monster book, it was the better thumbnail!)

We can only hope

In teaching research as part of writing, I often saw students default to minimal work to meet the checkbox requirements because they felt like it was impossible for them to ever take in enough information to find THE answer to their question. I see something similar in full-grown scholars today who

"We cannot all produce poems at the quality of a professional poet [...] but perhaps that is what being human is: learning something new and sticking with it, even if we do not become world famous poets (Brainard 2025)."

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Medieval illustration as described, there are pigs below him eating the acorns.

November, a man knocking acorns out of an oak tree, Psalter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, c.1185.

I like the detail on his legs and it's interesting that he seems to be wearing something akin to socks rather than hose

Do you think we haven’t been trying?????????

YouTube video by Institute of Musical Traditions "The Final Trawl", Archie Fisher

RIP Archie Fisher
youtu.be/-ZiaRcZWyyg

YouTube video by Institute of Musical Traditions "The Final Trawl", Archie Fisher

youtu.be/-ZiaRcZWyyg

We’ve done four Peabody #BikeBus rides with the band so far, and each one relies on an incredible selfless army of volunteers.

I’m so grateful to them without whom we couldn’t pull off this joyful madness. A true community.

Happy HONKoween 🎺🎷🎃

my version of this is i think most people only exhibit sentience some of the time. not a value judgment. they go on autopilot for long stretches of time. how aware are you of your own light of consciousness when you're folding laundry. driving in traffic. putting things in the square hole at work.

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

I'm not crying. You're crying!

Such a good compilation (and saves me trying to scan through all my re-skeets)

Jesus Christ. So fucking creepy and sick.

I was arriving at a funding for medical aid in Gaza. This is obscene.

Leave me alone!!

If you’ve not yet filled this in, I suggest opening a document and writing a few key phrases like, "there is no ethical use of a program developed on plagiarism and theft" to cut-and-paste because this survey was 100% "same question slightly rephrased, all starting at the position of inevitability."

Time consuming, but a good survey to fill out in the next 24 hours.

You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original jargon.

DUDE!!

Before AI, we linguists used large scale corpora to study relationships between words and all sorts of other things. Some of them are at risk of going down because of reduced interest, including the most used (COCA), so I bought it. I also added five of old and middle English.

Alpha test, fiddling

I hate how in America a) there are Nazis roaming about and b) if one of them assaults you, you are suddenly in 30k of debt. Anyway, help out a comrade.

i made a helpful reference

“... Drawing on recent popular and academic literature on genAI, we argue that the values embedded in this technology do not align with the values of critical humanities and social science pedagogy, which include originality, academic freedom, creativity, and critical thinking.”

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Slowly going insane watching non-Canadians people cheer for Doug Ford while he strips environmental protections, threatens tenants and renter rights, wastes tax payer dollars, changes electoral processes, and otherwise fucks over Ontarians every day

We do not have to hand it to him!!

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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