Alexander R. Phillips

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Highways too are technologies of separation.
#BanCars

Screaming in San Diego 😱

Twin Peaks: The Return is the perfect allegory for American rot. And the Trinity test episode is one of the most astonishing hours of TV I have ever seen.

1998 was also the model year of the only reliable inkjet printer I have ever owned.

This guy is absolutely right we should teach all children AI in the classroom!

bc i need the job security that comes with being permanently smarter than them until im 85

Book on table, "Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature."

If you are at #TheGSA2025, might I suggest stopping by the @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social table and checking out this book by an author who is me. I'm pleased to see it in such fine company!

Hello America, I'm here for #TheGSA2025. It's my first visit to the US in four years, did I miss anything?

Foreground: bowl with caps in sanitizing solution on left, bottle in capping machine on right. Center background, grey Persian catloaf.

Glass of uncarbonated reddish brown beer.

My supervisor, Bhuta, monitors the bottling of the Scottish Heavy. His face is on the bottle, so he has much at stake in the quality control process.

I was aiming for a lighter red than the reddish brown. Not that this color is anywhere out of style, I just wanted a prettier red.

If so, then I hope the local Atlas fixie riders are well aware of how hip they are!

In a rigidly hierarchical society like this one, people on these machines are barely a rung above pedestrians in the eyes of drivers and urban planners. But every time I see a person riding one, I think, they probably have no idea how hip they would be in Brooklyn.

#BanCars

"AI" made the shitty singularity even shittier.
#ShittyFuture

We committed the original sin with Napster. And not because of copyright.

Admitted to my students that my publication in my school's undergrad research journal could be found in the bowels of the internet, and everyone promptly pulled up Google. 😬

Those of us who care about efficient and just transit systems for a liveable yearn for the 1890s. #BanCars

John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique! Absolute tour de force.

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Reminder @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI; which explains this thinly sourced excuse of an article that relies on ONE Masters student and OpenAI's International Education Lead countered by measly words of "caution" from ONE university admin.

Really the name alone should have gotten us talking about digital sovereignty.

And every typo, every clunkily-structured paragraph, brings a tear of joy.

Second such vacuous article from the Guardian in as many days. I'm at the point where the student most on track for an A is the one obviously just freely associating about the reading. The associations may be off base, but at least they're thinking about it.

Ha! We had a day where groups of us went to various job sites. I must have ticked the legal box, because I went with the group that met some JAG lawyers.

If knowledge is a zero sum game where only one of two mutually exclusive views can prevail, we are all already losers.

*Ahem,* speaking as a former high school debate captain.

Exchange between Mephisto snd Baccalaureus from Faust II. Mephisto says students learn the hard way what teachers try to tell them, Baccalaureus retorts that teachers are frauds pander.

The students are on to us.

Called it on the surveillance and lost touch with reality, missed on racial and intercultural harmony.

𝗨𝗻𝗶-𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲
Dozent: Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träu-
Studentin: Moment, Moment, WIE FRÜH morgens?
Student: Ich frage ChatGPT!
𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘧𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘶𝘧 𝘪𝘩𝘳𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦.

Lecture announcement.

Speaking tomorrow on atmosphere and the longer history of #CliFi at Jamia Millia Islamia.