Alex C
@arcticsounds.bsky.social
Geographic Fantasies // Wellness Capitalism
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«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”»
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 9:58 AM
«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”»
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Trying to work out how the REF can be tweaked around 'national priorities', if those 'priorities' were never communicated to researchers when they undertook the research. Or are they suggesting it's all a game of retrofitting past activities to the measures?
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Trying to work out how the REF can be tweaked around 'national priorities', if those 'priorities' were never communicated to researchers when they undertook the research. Or are they suggesting it's all a game of retrofitting past activities to the measures?
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These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
August 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
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I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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Don't threaten us with a good time.
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Don't threaten us with a good time.
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I’m so fucking pissed that I already go into a classroom thinking “what do I do if there’s a mass shooter” and now I gotta add “what do I do if armed agents of the state come to drag away a student?”
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m so fucking pissed that I already go into a classroom thinking “what do I do if there’s a mass shooter” and now I gotta add “what do I do if armed agents of the state come to drag away a student?”
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Mark, the problem isn't that fact-checkers have become too politically biased, it's that FACTS have become politically biased.
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
January 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Mark, the problem isn't that fact-checkers have become too politically biased, it's that FACTS have become politically biased.
The Biocharger - Cost $17000
November 12, 2024 at 10:08 PM
The Biocharger - Cost $17000
The two meditation genders:
November 7, 2024 at 7:57 AM
The two meditation genders:
How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction
As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2024 at 12:54 AM
How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 19, 2024 at 12:23 AM