A meme for the modern university...

If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?

"The care robots themselves required care: they had to be moved around, maintained, cleaned, booted up, operated, repeatedly explained to residents... Indeed, a growing body of evidence from other studies is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregivers.":

Also eliminating disability and “perfecting humanity” are fundamentally incompatible because disability is a core element to the human experience and what makes us humans

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In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

Thanks for documenting all of this. It was really interesting to follow. Great work, as always.

A man came up to us at a Tesla Showroom picket on Saturday to tell us he’d just had a test drive and it was *great* that FSD meant there was no longer any need for a human driver.

Wow.

What--and I say this with my chest--the hell are we doing here people

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

How do you stop the incessant political text messages? I never have donated by phone, never heard of many of the politicians and campaigns I get texts from, often several a day. I now report them as spam but that doesn't seem to help any more than texting stop.

self-driving would seem, to the layman, to indicate that the car... drives itself?

Evidence shows lots of people learn to use ADAS by trial and error. This is knowable. (And not just from my small n study.)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

agelab.mit.edu/static/uploa...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FWIW I found that people thought "autopilot" meant pretty much the same thing as "self-driving" and "autonomous" and I'm pretty sure what people think the word means is the only thing that matters here...

I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"

actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

I believe this is also the work where span was operationalized as the amount of time spent on a single screen/tab before changing. The author was on my campus last year and an undergrad in the audience immediately identified the shortcoming in defining a screen switch as a change in task/attention.

In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday.

By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.

Today, in 2025, that number is *7*

And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.

9/

In psyc (<150 yrs old) we have folks in their 5th and 6th career decades still around and basically filling journal space defending how their 50 yr old theories got it right the first time.