Allison Dieppa

I have mixed feelings about these detection methods, but I agree with the author on this point about the popular “AI” assessment assignment:
“How do I assign students an AI-generated essay for assessment if they don’t have the basic knowledge to parse said essay?”

Werner Herzog saying, “I would like to see the baby.”

Show me your kitties, Bluesky. Please and thank you. #caturday

WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game.

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That’s definitely one of the consequences I’m worried about. An institutional buy-in like this makes it that much harder for students and faculty to resist tech marketing and to avoid being affected by “AI” even if you don’t use it.

I'm really disappointed to learn, via the minutes of the latest Faculty Senate meeting, that my university is planning to purchase an enterprise-level license for some "AI" model. I can think of so many things that money would be better spent on that would actually serve our students' learning.

It might be a little late for this warning, but I don’t think the Stardew mug is dishwasher-safe. 😂

The irony of this news being followed by a nudge to invest in stocks selected by “advanced AI.” Nothing to see here!

Kinda wondering if the steam boxes release and are popular enough, if that would help popularize linux use/releases a bit more after how rancid Microsoft/windows is these days

I’m amused by the fact that US bishops apparently have a TikTok account, but also, go off, bishops.

The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…

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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.

Folks with an LG TV may want to forgo the latest software update, which will install an “AI Concierge and AI Chatbot” to collect more of your data and tell you what to watch. 🙄

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Welcome back, Rosalia. This is the follow-up to El Mal Querer I wanted. (I could not get into Motomami.) #musicsky

Before today, my understanding of a "rat king" was based on this guy, and I think life was a little better then. Look it up in Wikipedia at your own risk. #WyrdWednesday

The Rat King from The Nutcracker ballet

Before today, my understanding of a "rat king" was based on this guy, and I think life was a little better then.

That’s fair, Meow Meow. We deserve it.

It is 55 degrees in SW Florida, which means I am cranking up my car’s seat warmers to maximum like I’m trying to bake cakes on them.

I’ve looked several times for a way to turn off Adobe’s AI pushiness and am so glad there finally is one.
Let’s keep putting the pressure on tech companies and making it clear we don’t want these features.

We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.

Abstract The writing classroom has been dramatically affected by the introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Facing immense pressure to adapt to a challenging and changing educational landscape, some writing instructors have chosen to adopt LLMs as a teaching tool. However, perceiving this technology as a potential "partner" in the writing process involves various problematic assumptions about chatbot capabilities. For one, it requires a certain degree of confidence in LLMs, which are incapable of understanding information and produce output conforming to the Frankfurtian definition of "bullshit." While some scholars have suggested chatbot interactions may still be educational in a fictional capacity, this argument presumes that students understand the limits of AI veracity, and it is inconsistent with the way LLMs are actively marketed as trustworthy personas, despite their tendency to "hallucinate." Given the current abundance of misleading AI hype and marketing, this essay argues that using LLMs in the writing classroom may be counterproductive to students' development as writers and thinkers. As such, writing educators are invited to challenge the popular narrative of AI techno-determinism and embrace their power to steer this technology's course in higher education.

My conference paper "Imaginary Friend or Foe? Examining the Pitfalls of an AI Writing Partner" is finally published in the CEA Critic! In it, I tackle some of the problematic assumptions about AI and discuss why LLMs may be counterproductive for writing pedagogy. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Throwback to one morning in 2024. Roosters had nothing on this little guy. #caturday #catsky #floof

Seeking Mavis Beacon John Candy: I Like Me Task Christine

#lastfourwatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

Totally agree. Honestly, I’m surprised Rachel Weisz even signed on for it.

I literally cringed when I saw this announcement. I think it was Kirsten Dunst who recently said, “Leave good things where they are.”

I think about the Times now the way one might think about an ex: “Ugh, I can’t believe I used to like you.”

[Exit Clown.]

Mariah Carey getting cancelled over a really tone-deaf christmas commercial for Sephora that mocks the working class was not on my 2025 bingo card.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers