Olga Kravets

Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

The Unnerving Meaning of the Two Kinds of Instagram Kitchens They look different, but they underscore the same anxieties.

No news hook sorry (‘Trump take egg’? ‘RFK take vaccine’?? maybe!) but here’s a new piece by me in Slate talking about kitchen aesthetics & ideology, John Berger’s The Eaters and the Eaten, food anxieties, and the Tartine bread book: slate.com/business/202...

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Photo of a rectangular clay tablet in landscape mode pictured from the front at the top of the picture, the back at the bottom of the picture. Between the two is a shot of the bottom of the tablet, which looks like a narrow clay strip. The front of the tablet is separated into boxes like an excel spreadsheet. The boxes have cuneiform signs in them. The bottom of the tablet has about two lines of cuneiform text.

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds.

Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

Outwitting History | The Point Magazine Adrien Brody is the most beautiful man in Hollywood, and maybe on the planet.

saw The Brutalist a while back but still thinking about it... def recommend! Adrien Brody. beautiful cinematography. American Dream revealed as a nightmare but... so many buts re execution of this message. a good read here: thepointmag.com/criticism/ou...

happy Monday

(photo by Eileen Pan via unsplash)

general public facing note directed to no one in particular: just because genAI is professionally useful to you in this moment does not mean it is worth the broader social costs and does not mean it will not be used against you, professionally, soon

my succulent is blooming😳 what a lovely surprise!
never happened to me. ever. what could it mean?!?

"sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi

Daniel Zamora, World Upside Down — Sidecar On T. J. Clark’s Bruegel.

today ‘the unappeasable wish for escape’😞
#goodread on the estranging effects of Bruegel’s work
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

“‘epistolary sociability”?!🧐 interesting take on customer feedback

Fairytale in the Supermarket | Erik Baker Erewhon emerged from a countercultural ethos—but a business is still a business.

The cult grocery store Erewhon emerged from a New Age ethos that emphasized meaningful work as much as wholesome eating. But as @erikmbaker.bsky.social writes, this “new spirit” of capitalist endeavor was a lot like the old one.

Derrida, Barthes, and the Origins of Asemic Writing In my first post on asemic writing, I briefly touched on the origins of this art form, noting that the artists Tim Gaze and Jim Leftwich applied the term asemic to their quasi-calligraphic works in 19...

today, learned smth new: "asemic writing"😳
fascinating! because I totally had this happen when speed-writing ie creating my own language😂 but didn't know it's a thing!
www.samwoolfe.com/2022/05/derr...

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

where are you presenting this one?! any chance of an online access?;)

"To speak up is not about speaking louder, it is about feeling entitled to voice a wish." - Zofia Kalinska (in Deborah Levy's Things I Don’t Want to Know, 2013 p10)