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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 57m

The fuck?

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 1h

It's actually good if people do good things even if it's only for social approval.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 1d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty obvious that the "compact" as well as much else going on right now in higher ed is the oligarchs trying to squash one of the few areas of life that they don't have control.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 2d

This pretty much has never happened to me before, so I didn't even consider. In the future I'll likely do that.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe having three vaccines in one day wasn't the best idea.

Just cancelled today's classes!

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 2d

For my book, my editor but also the reviewers. The first draft was extremely self-indulgent.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 2d

"Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward."

Sure, man.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social · 2d

You can use the code 10VABOOKS to receive 30% off your preorder of Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

Freedom in the Age of Slavery

An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old SouthVirginia was the state with the most enslaved

www.upress.virginia.edu

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, we are in English Civil War territory.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't the whole tariff thing functionally Charles I's ship money?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

FINALLY

A conservative professor on how to fix campus culture

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

The game:

uncpress.org/978146967071...

Kentucky, 1861

Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln’s 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set agains...

uncpress.org

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I learned from teaching that game was how deeply baked the idea of the "right of revolution" was in mid-1800s America. Everyone agreed you had that right even if you didn't have the right to secede. One of the arguments was whether the line had been crossed to justify rebellion.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

In may US History to 1877 we play a game about Kentucky Secession. I often think about what the folks we interact with in that game would think of what's going on right now, and I'm not just thinking about secessionists.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

Without "silver-tongued charlatans," both native-born and immigrant, I don't know where this country would be to be honest.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

Like all things social media sites die.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

The craziest thing about this was when elites and media figures all said, "Whelp, I guess everyone loves him now" after the election.

It was obvious everyone was going to hate him within weeks!

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

the story of 2024-2025 in a nutshell:

"shit sucks, let's give this trump guy another chance"

"wait a minute, we hate donald trump!"

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

the story of 2024-2025 in a nutshell:

"shit sucks, let's give this trump guy another chance"

"wait a minute, we hate donald trump!"

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 4d

Why do so many students "know" that the sinking of the Lusitania caused the US to get involved in World War One?

Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 5d

Gosh. It's been so long since I was a World War 2 dork (almost 30 years) I have no idea! I just checked out the wikipedia article on the T-34, and it talks about this, in particular early Operation Barbarossa.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34#Op...

T-34 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 5d

It has an uncomfortable kinship with lost cause nonsense.

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 5d

I think the moment when students respect me the most is when it comes out that I had an unhealthy obsession with World War 2 as a teenager.

Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 5d

People will focus on the American superior technology, but read about what happened when the Germans first met T-34s in their shitty tanks.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5d

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 5d

People will focus on the American superior technology, but read about what happened when the Germans first met T-34s in their shitty tanks.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5d

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

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