Scott J. Wilson
@scottjwilson.bsky.social
English Instructor & Writing Across the Disciplines Coordinator—Luther College at the University of Regina Insta: scott.j.wilson X: @scott_j_wilson
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Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.
December 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.
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As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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Hey cool, the Smithsonian Podcast episode interviewing me about space debris is out! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/series/theres-more-to-that/season-2/the-astronomical-problem-of-space-junk/
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
Smithsonian Podcast: There's More to That Blog Smithsonian Magazine
_Smithsonian_ magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet the magazine’s journalists and hear how they discover the forces behind the biggest issues of our time.
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hey cool, the Smithsonian Podcast episode interviewing me about space debris is out! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/series/theres-more-to-that/season-2/the-astronomical-problem-of-space-junk/
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
That's not what these products provide.
Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards).
Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.
Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards).
Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
That's not what these products provide.
Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards).
Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.
Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards).
Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.
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AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product
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Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like.
On the chopping block:
• accessibility training for drivers
• accessibility improvements at stops
• end evening service on Sundays
• cancel 4 planned driver positions
/1 #yqrcc
On the chopping block:
• accessibility training for drivers
• accessibility improvements at stops
• end evening service on Sundays
• cancel 4 planned driver positions
/1 #yqrcc
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like.
On the chopping block:
• accessibility training for drivers
• accessibility improvements at stops
• end evening service on Sundays
• cancel 4 planned driver positions
/1 #yqrcc
On the chopping block:
• accessibility training for drivers
• accessibility improvements at stops
• end evening service on Sundays
• cancel 4 planned driver positions
/1 #yqrcc
Drop a lawyer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Drop a lawyer.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.
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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
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Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.
Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.
Big loss.
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
A lot of us wouldn't be doing what we are doing if not for this fella
RIP DANIEL WOODRELL
RIP DANIEL WOODRELL
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Big loss.
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
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Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious, eerie study finds
Leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
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Activists Are Using Fortnite to Fight Back Against ICE.
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE
Players are role-playing ICE raids in “Fortnite” and “Grand Theft Auto” to prepare for real-world situations.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Activists Are Using Fortnite to Fight Back Against ICE.
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
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I always laugh when someone calls me a ‘paid shill’ for mentioning the scientific consensus on vaccines. If I really wanted to make money, I’d target people’s biases with sensational, polarizing content—the stuff that spreads fast, builds big followings, and turns outrage into revenue.
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I always laugh when someone calls me a ‘paid shill’ for mentioning the scientific consensus on vaccines. If I really wanted to make money, I’d target people’s biases with sensational, polarizing content—the stuff that spreads fast, builds big followings, and turns outrage into revenue.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”