Will Canoe-Sick
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Associate Professor of English. he/him. I’m giving the internet one more shot.
*looking at the burning bag of dog poop somebody left on my doorstep* Is this artificial intelligence??
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Dr ShinyGoth
1 day ago
Y'all I need some help. I'm trying to locate a quote, I think by Donna Haraway, that says something to the effect of "I will only critique that which implicates me". Is that familiar to anyone?
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Gillian Gower, PhD
2 days ago
Starting a plagiarism detection software company called GANDALF.
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I highly recommend taking a long winter walk, if that option is available to you and you don’t mind the cold
2 days ago
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Jerry Chen
2 days ago
2025 was believable but 2026 just sounds like a made up year
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Kelsey Atherton
2 days ago
An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.
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Aparna Nair
3 days ago
The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
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Minnesota Cinema Canon: Fargo Drop Dead Gorgeous Purple Rain A Simple Plan A Serious Man Wisconsin Film Canon: American Movie
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3 days ago
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
3 days ago
That part
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Francis Ford Coppola (1972-1974 ONLY)
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3 days ago
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This is Spinal Tap
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3 days ago
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Jacob Wren
3 days ago
Instead of trying to be more successful, which has never really worked for me, I have decided to actively attempt to become less successful with the hope that this will also backfire.
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John Scalzi
4 days ago
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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Just read an author use the word “formative” in a context where they could have used the word “seminal.” Let’s normalize this
4 days ago
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Annie Abrams
6 days ago
it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”
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William Shakespeare
4 days ago
[Exit pursued by a bear.]
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
4 days ago
Really, this grievance era is far too much.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
4 days ago
I got kicked off a committee for repeatedly asking "why would we want that?"
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I turned 47 yesterday and I might just nap all day today (as a treat)
4 days ago
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Erin Grievances
4 days ago
Every pedagogical argument I see is essentially "You could use it to do something you already do but you will also have to do a lot of setup and double check everything it does."
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Andrew Tobolowsky
4 days ago
The one thing no one has explained to me, which I also hope they never do, is why using AI is supposed to be so hard that it has to be incorporated into every single class, right now it sounds like ppl saying you need constant hard work through 4 yrs of college to be able to ask Siri to play music
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Avery Edison
over 2 years ago
DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
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Higher Ed admins rn
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4 days ago
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Doghouse Reilly
4 days ago
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
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Scott Phillips
5 days ago
Live Long and Pasta
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Better Things Are Possible
5 days ago
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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Walking and Talking
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5 days ago
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Love me a baked potato with a little butter and salt and pepper
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5 days ago
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Casino Royale of Marx by Jacques Derrida Quantum of Solace of Marx by Jacques Derrida Skyfall of Marx by Jacques Derrida Spectre of Marx by Jacques Derrida
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5 days ago
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Sonja Drimmer
7 days ago
Public discourse on this subject has utterly failed to direct citizens' attention to the actual problem, which is that a commercial industry is assaulting education. So every week we get another thoughtless op-ed on blue books or the death of the college essay, etc etc.
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Ryan Boyd
5 days ago
Machine learning / AI has legit research applications. But at the level of writing instruction (a *core* intellectual and communicative skill) it is almost uniformly useless, counterproductive, and destructive. It drives me insane that I have to worry about this every day now as part of my job.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him)
5 days ago
I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching." And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.
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I would watch a movie where Jack Nicholson plays Santa Claus
5 days ago
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
7 days ago
And the Vampyre Lestat, who did NOT die...
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Hadas Weiss
8 days ago
could bari weiss try to bury my manuscript
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Charles Louis Richter
8 days ago
and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, nor can he be said to still live, not until such time as his box is opened and the quantum entanglement is resolved
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Schooley
8 days ago
As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
8 days ago
(whispering to date while daniel craig is onscreen) that’s Knives Out
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I hindsight I probably shouldn’t have let the Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? discourse ruin all of my relationships
8 days ago
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What if The Cure’s album from 2024 is the last truly great thing Gen X will do
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Dominique Baker
10 days ago
I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"
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Jacqueline Antonovich
10 days ago
I read about 350 books to prepare for my comprehensive exams as a PhD student. That is exactly what we do.
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Pro Tip: First ask the AI if its one of those AIs that hallucinates and THEN ask it to summarize the thing it didn’t actually read
10 days ago
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I asked it to summarize its summary and then I summarized that summary myself
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CHOAM for the holidays
12 months ago
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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I mean
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Diasporic Minnesotan Wants a Snow Day
11 days ago
Are you citing things you have not read? Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
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Aaron Bady
11 days ago
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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