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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.

That was my first thought

Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"

i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...

Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

cackling

remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

huge day for the himbo community

I’ve been to that electricity museum in Lima and it ruled!

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.

NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...

"healthy life" what about the emotional toll of never getting to eat a hot dog

being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy

she’s laughing about it because haha interview time, but it’s incredibly bleak!

h/t @/jessicaschiffer from Over There for the video 🎾

Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

That’s exactly how my mom feels about the beach… and I LOVE the ocean and swimming and was a paid lifeguard in high school. Still hate sand in between your foot and shoe but I’m very particular about that

RR: Repair must be our ethic, care our method. #DH2025.

I'm just so tired of hearing the AI inevitability narrative, itself a product of AI hype, as the starting place for (re)organizing our work and lives

yes but even more specifically for men skaters - post Dick Button I remember Adam Rippon’s ass breaking figure sharing fan containment to be lauded more widely during the 2018 Olympics

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

It is becoming increasingly funny to me when I see things like 'AI will be able to do all research!'

Buddy I don't know how to break it to you, but the amount of information that is not in any sort of digital form, let alone machine readable, is massive.

Oooh! I wrote my undergrad thesis on the New Jersey turnpike rest stops as sites of public history education; love a rest stop

Lots of amazing details in this, including this story about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reaction to the 2019 film Cats.