Absolutely loved Wake Up Dead Man. It has what I loved about the first one, it's a love letter to crime fiction. #wakeupdeadman

No.

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Administrators pay $$$ for AI built into every part of students' online learning platforms, and then turn to faculty and say, "Uh, you guys figure out how to make academic integrity work. Byeee!" In a way, the epitome of contemporary university governance.

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

A not insignificant part of the fatalistic adoption of AI in Higher Ed, I think, is because we have stripped thinking, learning, reading, writing from the idea of pleasure; it has become pure utilitarian product, rather than joyful--and difficult--process.

A joy of the job is blowing students' minds by telling them "yes you CAN introduce new material in a conclusion"

This is incredible. Reading Arcadia at the moment and just read this bit last night.

I believe this entirely.

And, necessarily connected to this, we should relentlessly advocate for the kinds of systems where teachers feel joy and inspiration in the material they bring to students bc there is no greater force for learning than a curious instructor excited about the topic they are teaching.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Also, complain long and loud, when GenAI screws up your interaction with a company - obtaining/using their products, contacting customer service, whatever. Do this direct and on social media. Employees may well be unable to push back against directives to use this garbage without risking their jobs.

ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.

This is one of those times where societal pressure can really work. I disengage with anything I see using AI and I tell them so. If we don't fight this, we could end up in a terrifying new paradigm of digital slavery an order of magnitude worse than we currently have.

THIS!!! I ban it, I tell them why I ban it, and yet they have it shoved down their throat as exciting, wave of the future etc. The mixed messages are a killer.

And this is why we fight. This shit won't last long at this rate. If they keep racking up half-TRILLION dollar loss projections, even the most bullish, fascist-ass weirdo billionaire is going to have to stop to keep from losing his shirt.

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems

Get Odegaard and Gyokeres on. #Arsenal

Ha.

“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”

And this is why we shouldn’t be letting Sam Altman or his company or his ilk infect higher education with their crappy products.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary

Because this is AI doing its job. Wiping out critical thinking skills, wiping out literacy (why read a novel when it can give you a mangled summary). I say to my students just ask yourself why they have such an issue with books. With reading. If what we do is worthless why do they steal it?

We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies These are very troubling times

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Same.

Teaching over for S1. My absolute pleasure to teach: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Middlemarch, The Time Machine, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Sleep, The Simple Art of Murder, The Neon Rain, The Brutal Telling.

It can't just be on the teachers and professors. Parents and other members of the community need to stand with them.

My students said they love my rants on it. Taught The Time Machine. Told them OpenAI wants them to become Eloi.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

It’s insane that a tool like this a) exists and b) is useful.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I am.

GET IN!!!

Eze. My word.

Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum

It really is this. They did not need Isak. Also, hilarious.

Got up early to try to get some marking done, and read an essay on Sherlock Holmes that was so good I went and read it twice. After a not very nice few weeks at work, it is lovely to be reminded that this is what it is all about. So proud of this student. 😊

138 years ago #OTD November 21, 1887, the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet - was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Written in 1886, and rejected by a variety of publishers for being either too long or too short,

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Started Volume 1 last night. Enjoying so far.

comrade JCO gets it completely CHOP FROM THE TOP (solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)

It was the honour of my academic career to co-nominate and co-deliver (with the amazing Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) the citation for Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate from @ucc.ie. ❤️ aosdana.artscouncil.ie/general/aosd...

Absolutely delighted for him.

im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money