I would 100% eat.

I think the CEOs are all cooking themselves with Claude and ChatGPT

I don’t ban AI use in my class. I ban bad writing.

AI programming does *exactly* what you tell it do. It doesn’t do anything more (like look for data homogenization problems) or it’ll analyze everything in the folder including other folders you didn't mean it to. It’s a practical application of the alignment problem.

Spacehog is not the best 90s song but it’s the most quintessential

Very good study!!! "How LLMs Distort Our Written Language." READ THIS STUDY. This is an A+ study. Plus there is enough information in the appendices to replicate it! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.18161

I miss reading weird internet posts with song lyrics designed to puzzle readers and get back at ex’s.

Grant submitted

I’m finally putting my big dataset into one massive frame and modeling stuff. It’s addictive.

The view that "AI can write literature reviews" is an indication that posters are admitting to not reading literature reviews or thinking about their work in the context of scholarship. People who hold this view are ignoring the work of science and/or scholarly conversation.

Fascinating video about how there are fake videogame reviewers (generated by GenAI) with evidence to prove it. Dead internet theory, with evidence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Vr...

The university looks so different depending on your department. Humanities scholars write books, engineers have extensive physical labs, CS scholars are publishing in conference proceedings, crop sciences are out in the fields, IT departments, student RSOs, athletics. It's a city, an archipelago

Free study idea: What are best practices of producing visual abstracts? How to avoid the burnout problem of visual abstracts? (i.e., they come at the end when you are ready to be done with the paper so you sorta mail in the visual abstract)

Evergreen

Early Neanderthals walked into this cave, went three football fields into the earth, created 15-foot-wide bubbles of rock, lit and tended small fires upon them. Then they left. This unique find has implications for how we underestimate many past peoples. www.johnhawks.net/p/a-look-at-...

Good thread about the role of coding and GenAI. The answers to the student's question are really thoughtful. Commenters provide many reasons to learn to code without AI (workplace realities around AI in general) www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comme...

It makes it exponentially worse because Rogan is so boring.

Here is the change that I think we could see from GenAI in higher education: longer class time with less homework. Maybe we'll see a 9 hour class per week without anything outside of class.

Classic journalistic malpractice: using anecdotes to produce a generalization about culture.

I can’t help but feel we are living a transactional society. The media report about the price of oil impacting pocketbooks as the result of the Iran war. They ignore death and destruction. The complete annihilation of seeing oneself as living with others. Rote solipsism.

New blog post! "The non-random pickle of AI writing" I wrote about the game of jinx, the necessity of human conversations, and the non-random ways that LLMs write. I hope you enjoy. Please subscribe and share. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-non-ra...

New blog post! "The non-random pickle of AI writing" I wrote about the game of jinx, the necessity of human conversations, and the non-random ways that LLMs write. I hope you enjoy. Please subscribe and share. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-non-ra...

What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

I'm convinced that the COVID pandemic memory-holed how truly rudderless the first Trump administration was. People remembered, "Stock market high and interest rates low!" and that's about it.

just throwing this out here. Literature reviews are tremendously important to both writer and reader of them.

My research institute, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, is rolling out a new flagship program: the Tracy Farmer Scholars! UKY undergrad, grad, and professional students can apply for up to $6,000 in research funding. Apps due 3/27. research.uky.edu/tfise/scholars

"Adequacy as the timber of utopic envisioning. What might it look like to imagine labor beyond as it is typically understood within the contexts of higher education?" Volume Editors are in the house! #4C26 @upcolorado.bsky.social @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social

Reading about ML ablations reminds me of back nerve ablations. And they’re not not the same thing.

Waking at 4:30 means that 8 am feels like the afternoon

A) I don’t see this. B) Claude is a better programmer than me. C) The argument I see is around people’s ability to think being degraded. D) people‘s lived experience means they can’t trust the output so it actually doesn’t make them more efficient, it just raises their boss’ expectations.

“dad did you eat the entire wheel of Brie!?”

"I don't want to shame students. I want to shame Jeff Bezos" is something I said during a presentation I gave today. But really that's my politics when it comes to GenAI: recognize the social and cultural force of AI boosterism. Soft on people, hard on structure (and billionaires).

One of the things that works well for improving student writing: real-time live editing (RTLE). Students email you their writing. Then put it up on a screen; everyone sits close. Narrate as you edit the paragraph. Students find this helpful. We rarely SEE people write or narrative their choices.

This remains my all time favorite farside

There’s something supremely addictive about original data collection

Dear Diary, It's week 7 of the semester. I've given up sugar. I promise I'm not eating a slice of pizza at 9 am.

My fourth grader discovered Terry Pratchett. It's lovely.

New blog post up! Please share and subscribe. "The Managerial Model of AI writing" meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-manage...

Blueberry scones. That’s the post.

What the best books about time travel that you think would teach well to undergrads?

Michelle Obama started an exercise initiative for kids and the Republicans acted apoplectic about it for years

I know pointing out the hypocrisy is pointless—I know it But if any Democrat even hinted that Americans might should *maybe* consider changing their habits in the slightest way Fox News hosts would have been performatively hosing down steaks on air 24/7 for at least a month

My not-related to my field academic take: capitalism is a myth sold to us by simply a reclassification of feudalism. I’ve read Marx, Beckert, Woods, Hobsbawn, Sweezy, Federici, Wang, Weber, Harvey, etc. I’m not convinced feudalism ever really left us. Maybe BECAUSE I read all of them.

We've gotten to the "waking up at 5 am to send emails" part of the semester.

Finally. YEARS OF WATER POLO PAYING OFF. we did this in practice. You'd have a dry run of running plays on land and then get in the pool for wet run. "Let's run it wet!" (I was all state and all american, i might add)

Yesterday, I made a brie and raspberry jam sandwich on multigrain bread. I cannot recommend it enough. It's delicious.

There is much joy to sitting around without screens, thinking through something, frustrated out of your mind.

In case you wonder what I do that‘s NOT GenAI, look no further! Using NLP, we analyzed about 22 million comments with a focus on vaccine sentiment. We found that vaccine sentiment is always lower than the baseline, pre-Covid, during 2020, & post-2020. journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/...

In case you wonder what I do that‘s NOT GenAI, look no further! Using NLP, we analyzed about 22 million comments with a focus on vaccine sentiment. We found that vaccine sentiment is always lower than the baseline, pre-Covid, during 2020, & post-2020. journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/...