Brad Coffin ⚰️
@brcongdon.bsky.social
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Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/ He/him
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.
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I'm sure it stretches back forever, but this kind of thinking, that being opposed to war is some kind of flight of fancy of the youth really ramped up during Vietnam, not very long after the concept of teenagers as a culture class was invented.
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.
brcongdon.bsky.social
Movies definitely give you the impression that when the end of the world comes you’ll get the day off work.
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IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.
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IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.
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God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.
brcongdon.bsky.social
I watched the preview and was like “I know her!!”

Very exciting! I don’t think I’ve heard of any of these films.
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God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.
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Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
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I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?
brcongdon.bsky.social
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is far from perfect, but I’m not sure how many great PG horror movies there are.
brcongdon.bsky.social
I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?
brcongdon.bsky.social
Starting to think online assessment is untenable in the age of LLMs.
brcongdon.bsky.social
If you ask ChatGPT to provide a works cited entry for a poem that you’ve uploaded or copied and pasted, it will provide a Poetry Foundation link to nowhere.
brcongdon.bsky.social
Sensodyne commercials have the least convincing dentists I’ve ever seen.
brcongdon.bsky.social
Also that low budget 2000s films looked uniquely shitty. I assume it’s the digital cameras they were using.
brcongdon.bsky.social
You know the Criterion Channel’s 2000s horror collection is not convincing me that the 2000s were a great decade for horror.
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lavietidhar.bsky.social
Woody Haut's Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood (2002) probably remains the definitive work on the miserable lives of the American noirists
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You know the Criterion Channel’s 2000s horror collection is not convincing me that the 2000s were a great decade for horror.
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brcongdon.bsky.social
Writing a literature paper is hard: you’re dealing with abstract ideas, etc. So, a typical characteristic of student writing is awkwardness.

LLM writing isn’t awkward, because there’s no effort involved.

I see a long gerund phrase start a sentence, and I think “someone wrote this.”
emilypawley.bsky.social
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
brcongdon.bsky.social
In my expert opinion, The Death of Bunny Munro wasn’t a great novel.