In grad school, I had a gig taking notes for a big “commission on the liberal arts.” More than once, someone brought up the concept of killing AP credits, everyone murmured agreements, and then someone sheepishly would say “admissions would never go for it.”
Like getting yet another Jack episode on LOST.
The thing about Grammarly’s Expert Review feature is that any LLM would confidently edit your document in the guise of any writer, living or dead. This is not meant to be a defense of grammarly.
Emo hair: older than I realized! 🔒
He lacks the fluidity of today’s most advanced chatbots!
Sort of wild that the “you prefer human writing” blurb is written to nonetheless extol the virtues of AI generated text.
In my experience, “cultural literacy” is usually an argument for calcifying curriculum as is.
i wonder about people forming newsletter/blog collectives where they edit each other and get work out into the world together, not for the purposes of building a business, but for the purposes of doing good work, keeping the tools sharp, and speaking needed words into the world
I enjoy it when Ester lets some snark slip through and then immediately expresses shock at herself!
I say this every time the question comes up, but I want a period-appropriate adaptation of Edgeworth’s “Belinda”…but filmed and edited like a reality tv show…complete with talking head confessionals.
I love it when Dickens builds a setting or scene entirely out of symbols.
It’s very funny! But if you thought Moby Dick was shaggy and plot-less…you ain’t seen nothing yet!
I would order one!
The move from “ask it for 50 ideas and pick the best” to “just print all 50”
Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?
As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.
It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???
What?
“The extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London during the last ten years is entirely due to a particular school of Art.” www.gutenberg.org/files/887/88...
“To whom, if not to them and their master, do we owe the lovely silver mists that brood over our river, and turn to faint forms of fading grace curved bridge and swaying barge?” […]
Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”: “Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get
those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows?” (…)
Yes! It feels correct to be reading the unwitting poster child for Gen AI summaries…in full!
Add me please!
We had an AI expert give a talk at a recent in service day. One big piece of advice was to use it for brainstorming. “Ask it for 200 ideas. Pick the good ones from the bad ones.” But, like, brainstorming is fun! That sounds incredibly tedious!
Ancient mariner waits outside your room and stoppeth you before you can get in the line for the happy hour bar.
You do not want to know what happens at Coleridge conferences…
The piece speculates that the young reporter is throwing their career away. It’s too bad no one at this newspaper bothered to ask the young reporter about any of this! You’d think with all the time saved by ai writing their pieces, they’d have the staff to report that out!
Really dislike the way this piece denies the young adult it disparages any agency. They are just “doing what they were taught.” Further, the idea that J-schools aren’t telling students about the job crisis is not credible. I heard it so much 20ish years ago that I changed majors…to English.
Committing to this bit: “The Sleepers”—Dream BIG (by which I mean
, dream of everything and everyone at all times and as if they are all the same) 🌿🌿🌿
For a great bit of satire around this trope, see the Uncle Toby portions of Tristam Shandy!
The first streamer to offer a live feed of just the song and dance sequences from every musical on the platform will get all the streaming subscription money from all the toddler parents (or maybe just all of the money this toddler parent spends on streaming).
Any idea if the offer would extend to k-12 classrooms?
