DMV is state, not federal

some states have set it up to be pretty smooth. The Oregon DMV had me in and out for a license renewal in like 15 minutes.

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

It's like they just keep...forgetting? Or they read the instructions and completely disregard them, even knowing that they can't pass the assignment without demonstrating really clear skills (citing material, writing on a course text, etc.). They just...don't do it. And don't seem to care.

We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.

We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.

Let's add "no AI-generated graphics" to the list, mmk?

if we're gonna get that wrong, I'm gonna bet that ain't even the Enterprise. Punk's trying to pass off a gif of the Yamato.

almost like Microsoft, who owns LinkedIn, cares a lot about making sure the algorithm promotes the technology their books are overexposed to

Juries are also the one thing that my friend from a Roman law country, who knows what she's talking about w/r/t comparative constitutional study, says that she is jealous of common law for. Juries, grand and petit, are a *special, unique* feature of the Anglo-American legal tradition

panels of locals making decisions of truth and innocence or guilt is slow! they get it wrong sometimes! but this process is so ancient that it predates the idea of the king's justice. it's older in England than divine right or hereditary monarchy.

What are you even DOING over there

this would slap, actually

WHAT

we need, as a society, to make this shameful and clearly out of bounds again