Joshua Barsczewski

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

“I had a bad habit
Of missing lovers past
My brother used to call it
‘Eating out of the trash’”

Taylor Swift, they could never make me hate you 😂

I don't advise grad students, and that's not likely to change any time soon, but I swear to god if one came to my office and said they wanted to use LLMs instead of collecting participant data for their diss (or even, like, a seminar paper) I would eject them from my office so fucking quickly

i hate it here

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

Congrats!

like, what are we even doing here

Sorry, I got lost at "Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so..."

because WHAT.

My Writing Center is so booked and busy this semester. I thought maybe we'd see decreases in appointments as students incorporate AI into their processes more, but that doesn't seem to be happening here.

Not going to complain!

LOL, watching the video of their conversation, it’s very clear that Ezra Klein was learning in real-time that he was way out of his depth. Hit his head on the ceiling of his mediocrity REAL hard.

Without question

I think it throws people off because there’s no zoning so it’s not unusual to see a skyscraper in the middle of an otherwise residential neighborhood. Like, it doesn’t really look like a city as we know it. But I swear, it has so much good stuff

It’s the only one I’ve been to! I have a bunch of friends broadly in the Dallas area but haven’t visited any of them yet

Besides, the answer is clearly Buffalo

I’m seeing way too many people mention Houston for my liking. If you know where to go (the gayborhood), Houston is delightful. And the food scene is magic.

It doesn’t feel very urban but idk. I thoroughly enjoyed myself there

My red flag is that I think while there’s more sandwich when cut diagonally, they actually taste better when cut straight down the center

Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.

Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway Sorry, Brendan Carr: Sinclair and Nexstar stop preempting Kimmel on ABC affiliates.

lol fucking losers 😆

Proofs for a book called Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition

Don’t mind me. Just going to cry looking at these glorious proofs. 3 goddamn years on this project and it’s almost over

The DMs I got from this were so wild. Some people were so plucked

Tweet that says "making people attend one full faculty meeting before applying to grad school would reduce PhD school applications by 98%"

This was by far my most viral tweet and, 4 years later without comment, it's time to post again

They might be Giants? How hard is it to figure out? You'd think one look would be enough. I'm not listening to that garbage until they get their shit together and figure it out.

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

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Tomatoes with salt and pepper really are that girl

hard agree. I spend half my time (as a WAC coordinator) saying this lol. People on my campus seem to get it, which is nice

I’ll add that this is good even in classes that aren’t writing intensive! Writing-to-learn is incredibly powerful