David S
@dslakter.bsky.social
Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman; current New Yorker. Kidney collector.
There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more).
https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter
There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more).
https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter
Dear Professor,
I am writing to let you know that I take academic integrity issues very seriously. I also have a new explanation for the presence of hallucinated sources on my essay, one which is (surprisingly) more implausible than my previous excuses.
I am writing to let you know that I take academic integrity issues very seriously. I also have a new explanation for the presence of hallucinated sources on my essay, one which is (surprisingly) more implausible than my previous excuses.
December 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Dear Professor,
I am writing to let you know that I take academic integrity issues very seriously. I also have a new explanation for the presence of hallucinated sources on my essay, one which is (surprisingly) more implausible than my previous excuses.
I am writing to let you know that I take academic integrity issues very seriously. I also have a new explanation for the presence of hallucinated sources on my essay, one which is (surprisingly) more implausible than my previous excuses.
My courses have no fixed deadlines for assignments, allow unlimited revisions, and I provide extensive feedback. Students still submit obvious AI slop, with made up quotations, hallucinated sources, etc.
I would like to add that this is not only horsecrap but completely unfalsifiable, and therefore a useless standard.
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My courses have no fixed deadlines for assignments, allow unlimited revisions, and I provide extensive feedback. Students still submit obvious AI slop, with made up quotations, hallucinated sources, etc.
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My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
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If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who is allowed to open new containers of ice cream in the freezer.
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who is allowed to open new containers of ice cream in the freezer.
I regret to inform everyone that people are now backing their way into the position Senators have as much power as a random member of Code Pink.
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I regret to inform everyone that people are now backing their way into the position Senators have as much power as a random member of Code Pink.
I'm not even on the same page as many of those people, but I'm pretty sure the primary contributor to young people's views on the matter are Israel's ongoing war crimes in Gaza.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm not even on the same page as many of those people, but I'm pretty sure the primary contributor to young people's views on the matter are Israel's ongoing war crimes in Gaza.
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Just ban force users from creating AI.
this has a gentler corollary which is “characters in Star Ware treat droids more or less appropriately, it’s fine that they have droids, they shouldn’t let the droids get sentient to the level where it’s a problem which is pretty rare”
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just ban force users from creating AI.
Posting is wrong. Have you seen the things people post?
I get the socializing part, because we're all overeducated and have too much free time, but don't ever post.
I get the socializing part, because we're all overeducated and have too much free time, but don't ever post.
I‘ll say it… celebrating thanksgiving, even if it’s just y'all eating food, is wrong. You don’t have to say “Happy Thanksgiving”. I get doing the dinner on thurs because that’s when we are all free. but, call it a fall harvest, learn about land back, uplift indigenous people. Don't Support Genocide.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Posting is wrong. Have you seen the things people post?
I get the socializing part, because we're all overeducated and have too much free time, but don't ever post.
I get the socializing part, because we're all overeducated and have too much free time, but don't ever post.
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Kant's moral philosophy
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Kant's moral philosophy
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The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Deep Harry Plinkett lore.
* Pizza rolls are a potent symbol of midcentury USA culture. The guy who sold them was the son of Italian immigrants, born in rural MN, made his first fortune selling frozen Chinese food, then tried putting other things in wonton wrappers...leading to pizza rolls.
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Deep Harry Plinkett lore.
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man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
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no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
How did the discourse fail to ever talk about how the term 'dungeon master' is problematic?
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
How did the discourse fail to ever talk about how the term 'dungeon master' is problematic?
JFK
Blown away
What else
do I have to say?
Blown away
What else
do I have to say?
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
JFK
Blown away
What else
do I have to say?
Blown away
What else
do I have to say?
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As someone who's read their (now former) spouse's fantasies about their affair partner, I'm just glad this has not been triggering for me. I think it would have been, a few years ago.
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As someone who's read their (now former) spouse's fantasies about their affair partner, I'm just glad this has not been triggering for me. I think it would have been, a few years ago.
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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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The 36 hour window of opportunity to impose Gay Feminist Sharia Communism in America is now open!
Act fast, brothers and sisters, and may chairman-prophet Muhammad-Lenin bless our efforts!
Act fast, brothers and sisters, and may chairman-prophet Muhammad-Lenin bless our efforts!
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The 36 hour window of opportunity to impose Gay Feminist Sharia Communism in America is now open!
Act fast, brothers and sisters, and may chairman-prophet Muhammad-Lenin bless our efforts!
Act fast, brothers and sisters, and may chairman-prophet Muhammad-Lenin bless our efforts!
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logging into bluesky dot app
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
logging into bluesky dot app
Student who has failed course due to not submitting *anything* is now attempting to convince me to let them pass by sending me screenshots of all the assignments they have not completed.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Student who has failed course due to not submitting *anything* is now attempting to convince me to let them pass by sending me screenshots of all the assignments they have not completed.