Nathan Eric Dickman
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When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.
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"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Literally arresting people just before they're sworn in as citizens. What was that about "do it the right way" again?
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December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Literally arresting people just before they're sworn in as citizens. What was that about "do it the right way" again?
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."
I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."
In solidarity with the smeared TA, another grad TA excuses students for attending the justified protest (but—obviously—not for ignorant and anti-educational counter-protest attendance).
Second TA also put on leave *for doing the correct thing.* The supervising prof’s statement?
Second TA also put on leave *for doing the correct thing.* The supervising prof’s statement?
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In solidarity with the smeared TA, another grad TA excuses students for attending the justified protest (but—obviously—not for ignorant and anti-educational counter-protest attendance).
Second TA also put on leave *for doing the correct thing.* The supervising prof’s statement?
Second TA also put on leave *for doing the correct thing.* The supervising prof’s statement?
All these educators claiming they use “The Socratic Method” are either liars or as ignorant as flat earthers. If they were actually educating in coherent and cogent Socratic form, higher ed wouldn’t be complicit in genocide(s) and this vacuous TACO administration.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
All these educators claiming they use “The Socratic Method” are either liars or as ignorant as flat earthers. If they were actually educating in coherent and cogent Socratic form, higher ed wouldn’t be complicit in genocide(s) and this vacuous TACO administration.
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There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented.
ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”.
Why is ICE harassing women?
ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”.
Why is ICE harassing women?
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented.
ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”.
Why is ICE harassing women?
ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”.
Why is ICE harassing women?
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The Trump-Vance administration’s withholding of congressionally appropriated funds is unlawful — and they know it.
We're glad to see that IMLS has reinstated millions in grants after months of legal pressure.
We're glad to see that IMLS has reinstated millions in grants after months of legal pressure.
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Trump-Vance administration’s withholding of congressionally appropriated funds is unlawful — and they know it.
We're glad to see that IMLS has reinstated millions in grants after months of legal pressure.
We're glad to see that IMLS has reinstated millions in grants after months of legal pressure.
“The absence of transparency implies the presence of incompetence.”
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“The absence of transparency implies the presence of incompetence.”
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I think one of the reasons the Nazi takeover of Germany is a helpful parallel for what’s happening in academia specifically is that unlike the Jim Crow US where integration hadn’t happened (not even during reconstruction), Jews were integrated into the German academy and had to be forced out
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I think one of the reasons the Nazi takeover of Germany is a helpful parallel for what’s happening in academia specifically is that unlike the Jim Crow US where integration hadn’t happened (not even during reconstruction), Jews were integrated into the German academy and had to be forced out
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Question: Why get out of bed in the morning?
Paul Ricoeur replies: “On a cosmic scale, our lifespan is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the moment in which all meaningful questions arise.”
Paul Ricoeur replies: “On a cosmic scale, our lifespan is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the moment in which all meaningful questions arise.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Question: Why get out of bed in the morning?
Paul Ricoeur replies: “On a cosmic scale, our lifespan is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the moment in which all meaningful questions arise.”
Paul Ricoeur replies: “On a cosmic scale, our lifespan is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the moment in which all meaningful questions arise.”
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Okay, like, 1984 wasn’t supposed to be THIS literal.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Okay, like, 1984 wasn’t supposed to be THIS literal.
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Trump blows up Venezuelans in boats for alleged drug smuggling.
Trump pardons ex-president of Honduras who was convicted of...drug smuggling.
Trump pardons ex-president of Honduras who was convicted of...drug smuggling.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trump blows up Venezuelans in boats for alleged drug smuggling.
Trump pardons ex-president of Honduras who was convicted of...drug smuggling.
Trump pardons ex-president of Honduras who was convicted of...drug smuggling.
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Meanwhile, Trump is planning to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking.
Sickening — “Massachusetts college student (Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19 year-old business major at Babson College) deported to Honduras after attempting to fly to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving…” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Meanwhile, Trump is planning to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking.
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Trump is cracking down on drug dealers...unless you’re the former president of Honduras
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trump is cracking down on drug dealers...unless you’re the former president of Honduras
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despite being Iraqi, and all that entails with experiencing the worst of humanity. it wasn't until these past couple of years that i had to accept the proportion of people who are evil and cruel was not a very small minority. this has been a pretty devastating realisation.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
despite being Iraqi, and all that entails with experiencing the worst of humanity. it wasn't until these past couple of years that i had to accept the proportion of people who are evil and cruel was not a very small minority. this has been a pretty devastating realisation.
Turned towards the lost or impossible presence of the absent origin, this structuralist thematic of broken immediacy is therefore the saddened, negative, nostalgic, guilty, Rousseauistic side of the thinking of play
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Turned towards the lost or impossible presence of the absent origin, this structuralist thematic of broken immediacy is therefore the saddened, negative, nostalgic, guilty, Rousseauistic side of the thinking of play
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BREAKING: US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states reut.rs/48JkN4t
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
BREAKING: US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states reut.rs/48JkN4t
The ultimate role of the image is not to diffuse meaning across diverse sensorial fields, to halucinate thought in some way, but on the contrary to effect a sort of epoche of the real, to suspend our attention to the real, to place us in a state of non-engagement with regard to perception or action,
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The ultimate role of the image is not to diffuse meaning across diverse sensorial fields, to halucinate thought in some way, but on the contrary to effect a sort of epoche of the real, to suspend our attention to the real, to place us in a state of non-engagement with regard to perception or action,
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Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DONNIE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT DRUG DEATHS
He pardoned Honduras' Juan Orlando Hernandez who was responsible for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while deaths from psychostimulants soared.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
He pardoned Honduras' Juan Orlando Hernandez who was responsible for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while deaths from psychostimulants soared.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
DONNIE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT DRUG DEATHS
He pardoned Honduras' Juan Orlando Hernandez who was responsible for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while deaths from psychostimulants soared.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
He pardoned Honduras' Juan Orlando Hernandez who was responsible for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while deaths from psychostimulants soared.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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"How can this be legal" ask the people who urged the entire nation to vote for a party that unconditionally armed a genocide in which most victims were children
This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"How can this be legal" ask the people who urged the entire nation to vote for a party that unconditionally armed a genocide in which most victims were children