The 1930s Technocracy movement is one hell of a fully-automated rabbit hole to go down. I think I recognise the "we must embrace <thing> because it's happening anyway" mentality in a pamphlet published in 1939. (archive.org/details/Tech...)

well there goes one mode of my multimodal teaching approach down the swanny

Marking. One thing I hear _repeatedly_ is a reflective narrative around how a) there was a lot of 'social loafing' (individual team members not pulling their weight because others would get the work done) followed by b) 'I stepped up as a natural leader right before the deadline' and I'm like hmmm 🤔

attempting to punch my way of a hole, tiny little fists

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

shocking research insight about the song Shake You Down by Gregory Abbott

Friday night chat about how immense a track Solid still is, the GOAT of yacht rock

haha big year for dystopia, it turns out. Thanks you two (and everyone who makes it possible) :) @xriskology.bsky.social @katewillett.bsky.social

Monthly reminder

my imaginary happy place is always inscrutably crossing Wentworth St in a long black coat

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

the happy occasion of finally working out how to get that one emoji that you just didn’t know the name for, which defied all your attempts to describe it I give you: 🫠

SpongeBob Big Guy Pants Ok is the new Person Man Woman Camera TV.

Now That's What I Call retro recombinant innovation

some of my students are outraged when I ask them why they've used some AI-generated image or a clip-art level Canva template and they seem genuinely surprised that I would even notice because they think I am eleventy-five* and have zero visual design aesthetic. *in fact, I am only eleventy-four

once a Catholic always a Catholic, I guess, however minimally (aka the Greene hypothesis)

My favorite piece of content today.

we’ve basically agreed a line where we explain that mummy and daddy buy the presents but Santa delivers them, kinda like DPD

curry of the BEAST

I think one of my students just staged whatever the gen z equivalent of a ‘u ok hon’ intervention on account of a thing I wrote on LinkedIn so

I take it all back. We've found a use case for AI. What a time to be alive. open.spotify.com/track/5a3AwQ...

wildly ambitious new sign dropped at Luton station

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

crazy IG em_clarkson

end of week mood m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ62...

where once there was a yacht, now there is not

updating my spirit animal to cockroach, gotta hand it to them for grim tenacity; big survivor energy

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

[Carrie] *What if the thing you’re meant to do is the thing you’re really terrible at?* Ach well. Imposter syndrome FTW.

Submitting a motion to change ‘vibe coding’ to ‘pseudoprogramming’

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

"Celsius 233: the temperature at which book paper burns." The 1955 Danish translation, with title converted to centigrade, represents one of the first foreign language editions of Fahrenbeit 451. All other Latin alphabet foreign language editions have been published with the original title restored

Chapeau!

Yudkowsky/Soares v Luton death match

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Just watched @garymarcus.bsky.social give a blistering talk online for 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event today. I so so wish I could get my students (and HE management) to watch this. AI realism is desperately needed. I have students saying they like AI because it can ‘think’ NO NO NO NO NO

Almost as big a tragedy as this garbage “innovation” is the fact that this construction of “vibe (x)-ing” is just going to get used more.

They've lost the 9yos

every. single. university. making their headlong embrace of AI their USP is not going to work out the way they think it is; look what happened to the University of Reading

scrabbling below the water line; also, scrabbling above the water line. It’s scrabbling all the way down; there is no projection of ease

My husband just referred to “Joanie Ive,” totally unaware that it’s pronounced “Johnny,” and I got to go on this rant, which is my favorite rant, and I had been in such a foul mood but it turned my whole day around, thank you Jim, I love you

the shitpost we need in difficult times

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

One Night in Bangkok is insanely catchy and also one of the most nationally offensive and ridiculous pop songs of all time