Yes, what if.

who benefits when you cheat yourself? "Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves." thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

To experience becoming is exactly what’s wrong with LLMs in education.

Tis the season for betrayal.

Did Ross Douthat ruin the NYT opinion section? No, but he did make it worse.

It's called retirement. "In losing, Cuomo is repeating some family history . . . Andrew Cuomo was a college student during his father’s campaign. He is now 67, and it remains to be seen what his future holds" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

This is now two baseball games long. Therefore, this should count for the 3rd and 4th game in the World Series.

I’m tired and I’ve just been WATCHING baseball for six and a half hours; I can’t imagine what it’s like to be playing for that long.

I am planning a Canvas-free, device-free US literature 1 survey course for spring. One out of class essay, the rest will be exams, a commonplace book, and in-class activities like a lab.

Supes at #NoKings Manhattan!

Again, we need to tax the ultra wealthy to protect us from their ideas.

Is there still a lot of lead paint in Silicon Valley?

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to: (1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education (2) therefore, the goals of education must change. Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

this is like a miniature symphony in three movements

Teaching and learning is hard work worth doing.

Turns out big pharma is better than no pharma.

I cancelled my account when they turned an article of mine into an AI podcast without my consent. This is a real 🚨🚨🚨🔥 situation now.

A big reason to tax billionaires is to protect the rest of us from their stupid ideas.

“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it. . . The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”

What if the Turing Test isn't a good measure of intelligence?

Electrolite

“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”

I am not that optimistic. #youknowwhatImean

I’m a college educator and proud union rep and negotiator here and while I am not speaking for my union let me say . . . No in thunder. AI is not helping education. It’s a bullshitting device that spews misinformation and develops dependency. It is the opposite of enlightenment.

I filed mine. Remember to file yours!

Watching Casablanca today. We need more anti-fascist films!

A class that could not be an email.

Thank you. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This will 💯% lead to student complaints (. . . But the AI said . . .) And it will 💯% encourage unauthorized AI usage in order to get the bot to give itself an A. It’s an absolute trap for students.

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

AI is a dystopian nightmare, but its boosters just respond to your critiques by saying, "But it's the future!"

Thinking aloud here as I try to understand the contemporary political scene: sex offenders will ingratiate themselves with authoritarian systems because they grant them opportunity to abuse people. These systems will be loathe to act against offenders because doing so undermines their authority.

When fascism is the distraction from pedophilia, you know things are going well in the country.

This is really important for creators and educators registered in California to do. You know what that slip does to your life and livelihood, as well as teaching. Easy to add your own specific message, and please circulate.

Even More Modest Mouse

Once again, there is no ethical use for GenAI. It’s exploitation all the way down.

My job is going to get so much worse.

for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to microplastics

Bill Kristol, like every Iraq War cheerleader, owns his share of this, but what's useful is that now supporting the continued existence of DHS makes you *to the right of Bill Kristol"

Poetry makes nothing happen, but on July 4th I felt so down I worked on a playlist. Here it is, battle tested over the last month: 1. PJ Harvey, “The Community of Hope” 2. Radiohead, “No Surprises” 3. Lakecia Benjamin, “Peace is Possible” [Live] 4. Ezra Collective, “Here Me Cry”

The emperor has no clothes and can’t remember where his pants are anyway. It’s fine.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Today: Bloodwork and then the DMV. Living the dream!

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring: "Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

How would this not be illegal in California where recording someone takes affirmative consent?

This is a post about Chicago Manual of Style but this also screams to me APA.

Trump is terminally unpopular because of his authoritarianism. This will continue to get worse which will further drive his authoritarian instincts and further erode his support.

More like students will know neither because many people, not just the right, want college to be trade school for the PMC.

Today, in my home country of Ventura, things were awful. If there is a silver lining it’s all the people who showed up to say that ICE does not belong in our community.