Anyway I came on here to BEG academics to stop using AI in their journal submissions. Yes, that includes for proofing, arranging reference lists etc. I am currently staring at a perfectly decent article, written by a human being, with a useless AI-generated bibliography full of errors.
31.07.2025 14:28 β π 103 π 25 π¬ 2 π 2
3. queer students deserve access to queer histories in their entirety, not just that which is affirming or inspiring, and refusing to teach uncomfortable or traumatic queer histories is as much a dereliction of our duty as educators as refusing to teach queer history at all.
27.07.2025 15:16 β π 150 π 17 π¬ 1 π 0
Opinion | You May Not Be Trumpβs Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.
If you read only one thing today please make it this, by the great Vanita Gupta
You May Not Be Trumpβs Target This Time. But You Could Be Next
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
27.07.2025 11:50 β π 847 π 342 π¬ 36 π 23
Israel is not "throttling food supply" It is STARVING PEOPLE AS PART OF ONGOING GENOCIDE.
20.07.2025 21:32 β π 1725 π 583 π¬ 4 π 0
Thinking too about how right-wing authors are always βbest sellersβ because some rich dude or think tank just buys thousands of copies on release to sit in a warehouse
11.07.2025 15:26 β π 244 π 34 π¬ 6 π 1
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.
22.06.2025 02:15 β π 14969 π 3611 π¬ 658 π 175
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...
02.06.2025 14:13 β π 2626 π 969 π¬ 111 π 306
Curtis Yarvinβs Plot Against America
The reactionary bloggerβs call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
02.06.2025 17:36 β π 14993 π 4118 π¬ 456 π 319
Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.
27.05.2025 13:11 β π 93 π 34 π¬ 8 π 1
This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.
29.05.2025 14:09 β π 1333 π 443 π¬ 22 π 21
Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My Universityβs AI Committee
What I learned serving on a university AI committee.
βPreserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.β
27.05.2025 11:26 β π 238 π 85 π¬ 4 π 9
"History will say..."
No.
People are dying now. Listen to us now. Do something now.
25.05.2025 04:00 β π 187 π 58 π¬ 2 π 4
Enjoying Peter Szendy's latest: β[β¦] read whatever happens, read for the sake of reading, read no matter what you read, despite what you read, even if, or precisely because, it is unreadable.β
24.05.2025 18:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ocean Vuong tells us that the novel, is in fact, a bottom that contains multitudes.
23.05.2025 03:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I despise legislative fights but I've unfortunately had to be part of many of them at the state level over the years. And what I can tell you is that NOTHING happens to stop bad bills unless PUBLIC PRESSURE IS RAMPED UP TO 1000%. That pressure can only build if the public is INFORMED.
22.05.2025 13:40 β π 684 π 256 π¬ 8 π 0
I Talked to the Writer Who Got Caught Publishing ChatGPT-Written Slop. I Get Why He Did It.
The latest A.I. controversy didnβt just hallucinate a summer reading list. It exposed how broken the system already isβand how fast itβs unraveling.
The AI slop summer book preview/supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times is about what's happened in media more than what's happening with AI. This Slate piece gets it and I have some thoughts from the perspective of someone who writes about books for a major Chicago newspaper. slate.com/technology/2...
22.05.2025 12:29 β π 81 π 26 π¬ 3 π 11
it's a cold and rainy evening in Wisconsin but my neighbors are setting off fireworks. are we celebrating the death of habeas corpus? the dawn of fascism? or just cheese curds?
22.05.2025 03:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
At my university, a provost said that they didn't like having English department people on committees because we were constantly asking about context, comfortable with ambiguity, and generally able to point out flaws in logic.
21.05.2025 02:44 β π 224 π 32 π¬ 6 π 4
The more people you force through already-overstuffed "business-friendly" degrees, the more unemployable a lot of them will become.
21.05.2025 12:46 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
a close-cropped look at a few lines on a medieval manuscript
Does anyone want to help me transcribe the bottom two little bits of text here after βJohannes Hawghtton me fier fecitβ because I have been staring at it for twenty minutes and my brain is simply going β????β (probably because itβs Latin and my Latin is awful)
I will be forever in your debt π
20.05.2025 15:42 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
18.05.2025 13:45 β π 4855 π 1877 π¬ 68 π 62
They hate mRNA vaccines, but now theyβre ALSO restricting Novavax, the only traditional vaccine for covid. For no effing reason at all. Itβs been approved and in use for two years in people over 12. Now only over 65s can get it.
They want us sick. Or dead.
18.05.2025 13:47 β π 21 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673
My therapist: Donβt worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it canβt hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
12.05.2025 20:32 β π 569 π 135 π¬ 23 π 13
A marble relief sculpture of Dionysus feeding a grape cluster to a panther.
Trying to give my cat a pill.
15.05.2025 11:57 β π 106 π 12 π¬ 3 π 1
Please note that this THIS PHENOMENON EMERGES FROM A BUSINESS MODEL FUNDAMENTALLY RELIANT ON ADJUNCT LABOR AND CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD INDEPENDENT OF THAT CONTEXT
14.05.2025 12:48 β π 69 π 13 π¬ 1 π 4
remember this when they say anything about Momodou Taal, RΓΌmeysa ΓztΓΌrk, Badar Khan Suri, or Mohsen Mahdawi
14.05.2025 11:28 β π 899 π 283 π¬ 12 π 3
I am so sorry.
11.05.2025 13:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care
In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.
"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
11.05.2025 03:50 β π 10657 π 4177 π¬ 519 π 513
The US has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year. Itβs only the second time the US has hit this dangerous milestone in the past 30 years and itβs only May. This is the Make America Sick Again agenda.
10.05.2025 21:57 β π 3282 π 994 π¬ 93 π 42
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