I wonder if so much of my students' writing sounds like advertorials because the internet raised them to speak consumerism.
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abadideaZuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
Håkon 🍉👇
"This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
Better thank god for grading rubrics. I can hate this article you've written -- hate your choice of topic, hate your angle -- and still give you the points you deserve for your writing and your use of facts and firsthand interviews.
Thought there wouldn't be anything as horrible as Ghibli-stealing AI, until I saw that same genAI being used to make pro-Duterte images. Fucking hell. 🤮🤮🤮
"We want to know your location so we can send you push notifications."
Really selling me on giving you that permission, I tell you. 🙄
How do students end up with reference lists chock full of predatory journals/publishers? 🤔 No matter how I try to teach them different criteria/heuristics for good publications, they still somehow end up with trash refs.
Nothing like a grading-prompted existential crisis because the average score on your open-notes 40-point midterm is 13 and your students can't write complete sentences.
Eugen RochkoWhat's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.
some people really out here happy to show how sexist they are, huh