This is all heinous but “inclusive pedagogy” is actively insane

“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“

I’m tired of seeing takes claiming that educators who voice concerns about GenAI are burying our heads in the sand, or failing to adapt, or choosing to be misinformed about GenAI’s potential, or are ignorant of other technological shifts that have happened throughout history.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

This is why treating schools like job centers where employers can externalize the cost of training will always be a disservice to the public and the economy's long-term health.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

Lesson: Bending the knee just makes it easier for them to kick you in the ass.

Special thanks to @swapnilrai.bsky.social and the PDC for organizing the extremely beneficial (and immensely packed) publishing & book proposal roundtable yesterday #scms25

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Breaking News: Senator Cory Booker’s speech criticizing President Trump has just become the longest speech in recorded Senate history.

Yep

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

This games industry bloodbath is because of corporate mismanagement and pure, unrestrained avarice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!

This is why fan theorizing online is such an amazing, concerning development in contemporary TV

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

I also hate aesthetic bookcases with reverse shelving and color coding but tbh the horizontal stacks always piss me off, too.

What is the average professor afraid of? - mainly: „train delays“ - the projector in the class room not working again - being invited to things - explaining what they do again at parties that they were regrettably invited to after all - the continued destruction of their whole field - Eduroam

Really delighted to see this new interview series from @scmstudies.bsky.social Media Archives Committee. The first edition focuses on key archives at the Academy — the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study & the Margaret Herrick Library. www.cmstudies.org/page/Convers...

Netflix and Comcast both donating a mere $10M of their billions of net worth, gained on the backs of industry workers — many of whom have been affected by this disaster — is…something. Slow clap. At least it’s better than Musk’s incendiary devices (cybertrucks).

Feels like the modern equivalent of "the stars are blood red tonight -- an ill omen, my liege."

What’s your energy going into 2025? #FilmSky #NewYear #BusterKeaton #NewYearVibe

“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it

*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun

Remember on this day that, canonically, George Bailey’s re-discovery of the value of his life takes place at the same time as the failed hit attempt on Vito Corleone.

Happy holidays from this belligerent demon

I’m going to simply evaporate

I made a gingerbread panopticon

I posted this on twt but sharing here. There's a new-ish website that has AI-generated audiobooks. This includes popular fics from AO3. the covers are AI-generated as well and its pretty obvious they're not familiar with what they post. There are A LOT of wangxian fics there. word-stream.com

As data centers cause America to run out of power, Arizona is emblematic of the sacrifices ordinary people face to fuel the boom.

Jacob Marley: Tonight you will be visited by 2 ghosts. Scrooge: I thought it was 3. Jacob Marley: LOL no it's 2024 there is no future.

Hundreds of Beavers straight into Hot Frosty is a hell of a double feature

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Considering I got two notifications over the week from SVA and SCAD about Generative AI training workshops for faculty (these are both art colleges, mind you), I'm existentially tired of everything and everybody who says this is "inevitable" when inevitable is shorthand to mean "comply in advance".

Increasingly, my media studies classes are focused around materiality. I get more worried every year. Reissuing hard-to-access films might be the only upside to conglomerate franchising, though-looking at you, Sony & 28 Days Later.

Age yourself with a movie you saw in theater.

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Finally watching The Substance. Also, MUBI is a deeply unserious platform