L.D. Burnett
@ldburnett.bsky.social
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L.D. Burnett
@ldburnett.bsky.social
· Oct 18
A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
double predestine THIS!
Calvin gets it twice
I ever see that smug fucker Martin Luther its on sight
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
double predestine THIS!
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Calvin gets it twice
I ever see that smug fucker Martin Luther its on sight
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Calvin gets it twice
two things are true:
1. my sense of self is completely immune to injury or harm from the comments/judgments of the young folks
2. when a college undergrad stops me to say, "I love your oufit--that's so cute!" my spirit is lifted to the stratosphere and I will ride that high for days and days
1. my sense of self is completely immune to injury or harm from the comments/judgments of the young folks
2. when a college undergrad stops me to say, "I love your oufit--that's so cute!" my spirit is lifted to the stratosphere and I will ride that high for days and days
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
two things are true:
1. my sense of self is completely immune to injury or harm from the comments/judgments of the young folks
2. when a college undergrad stops me to say, "I love your oufit--that's so cute!" my spirit is lifted to the stratosphere and I will ride that high for days and days
1. my sense of self is completely immune to injury or harm from the comments/judgments of the young folks
2. when a college undergrad stops me to say, "I love your oufit--that's so cute!" my spirit is lifted to the stratosphere and I will ride that high for days and days
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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It’s not just a problem with LLMs. People pushing skills over content drive me crazy. If students never develop domain knowledge, all of the analytical skills don’t matter much because they don’t have a basis for analysis.
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s not just a problem with LLMs. People pushing skills over content drive me crazy. If students never develop domain knowledge, all of the analytical skills don’t matter much because they don’t have a basis for analysis.
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
If you are like me, you immediately scrolled through Jamelle Bouie’s posts to find the biscuit photo in question.
If you are like me, you also were absolutely transported by the utter beauty of that biscuit...and you’re reading every single reply and quote-post to see the deranged tedium.
If you are like me, you also were absolutely transported by the utter beauty of that biscuit...and you’re reading every single reply and quote-post to see the deranged tedium.
love the website where posting a picture of a biscuit inspires deranged comments and some of the most tedious discourse imaginable
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you are like me, you immediately scrolled through Jamelle Bouie’s posts to find the biscuit photo in question.
If you are like me, you also were absolutely transported by the utter beauty of that biscuit...and you’re reading every single reply and quote-post to see the deranged tedium.
If you are like me, you also were absolutely transported by the utter beauty of that biscuit...and you’re reading every single reply and quote-post to see the deranged tedium.
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We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
went to a party at halftime, came home to learn that Dallas won that game?!
Eagles, wyd?
Eagles, wyd?
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
went to a party at halftime, came home to learn that Dallas won that game?!
Eagles, wyd?
Eagles, wyd?
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Huh
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Huh
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You can see their equally ill-equipped pit crew members wandering the aisles of grocery stores all week.
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You can see their equally ill-equipped pit crew members wandering the aisles of grocery stores all week.
didn’t Massie say there is a Canadian billionaire already named in the Epstein files?
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
didn’t Massie say there is a Canadian billionaire already named in the Epstein files?
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So much of my service work these days involves thinking about numbers and making numbers-based arguments, but at the end of the day it MUST be about creating spaces and opportunities for students' intellectual growth or what is it all for?
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So much of my service work these days involves thinking about numbers and making numbers-based arguments, but at the end of the day it MUST be about creating spaces and opportunities for students' intellectual growth or what is it all for?
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Teaching @ldburnett.bsky.social's "Holding On To What Makes Us Human" in my History capstone this week. It still slaps.
Holding On to What Makes Us Human
Defending the humanities in a skills-obsessed university.
www.chronicle.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Teaching @ldburnett.bsky.social's "Holding On To What Makes Us Human" in my History capstone this week. It still slaps.
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Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.
They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa....
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.
anecdotal evidence: Mr. B went to Costco yesterday, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
I asked him, “How bad was the crowd?”
Him: “Not bad at all. Barely a usual Saturday crowd.”
Both of us, literally in unison: “Probably not a good sign for the economy.”
I asked him, “How bad was the crowd?”
Him: “Not bad at all. Barely a usual Saturday crowd.”
Both of us, literally in unison: “Probably not a good sign for the economy.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
anecdotal evidence: Mr. B went to Costco yesterday, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
I asked him, “How bad was the crowd?”
Him: “Not bad at all. Barely a usual Saturday crowd.”
Both of us, literally in unison: “Probably not a good sign for the economy.”
I asked him, “How bad was the crowd?”
Him: “Not bad at all. Barely a usual Saturday crowd.”
Both of us, literally in unison: “Probably not a good sign for the economy.”
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Stop using generative AI. Just stop.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Stop using generative AI. Just stop.
God, what have you done?
You're a pink pony girl
And you dance at the club
Oh mama, I'm just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It's where I belong down at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing down in
West Hollywood
I'm gonna keep on dancing…
You're a pink pony girl
And you dance at the club
Oh mama, I'm just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It's where I belong down at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing down in
West Hollywood
I'm gonna keep on dancing…
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
God, what have you done?
You're a pink pony girl
And you dance at the club
Oh mama, I'm just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It's where I belong down at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing down in
West Hollywood
I'm gonna keep on dancing…
You're a pink pony girl
And you dance at the club
Oh mama, I'm just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It's where I belong down at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing down in
West Hollywood
I'm gonna keep on dancing…
A mighty fortress is our God
A bulwark never failing
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe
His craft and power are great
And armed with cruel hate
On earth is not his equal
😉
A bulwark never failing
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe
His craft and power are great
And armed with cruel hate
On earth is not his equal
😉
I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found, ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A mighty fortress is our God
A bulwark never failing
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe
His craft and power are great
And armed with cruel hate
On earth is not his equal
😉
A bulwark never failing
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe
His craft and power are great
And armed with cruel hate
On earth is not his equal
😉
we FINALLY started the newest season of The Morning Show. oh my god the STAKES in episode 1. just lousy with stakes for every freaking character. stress!
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
we FINALLY started the newest season of The Morning Show. oh my god the STAKES in episode 1. just lousy with stakes for every freaking character. stress!
