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Jake Wright

@bcnjake.bsky.social

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Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told. he/him

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 11d

"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

AI is dehumanizing

I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter.

In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 3h

I am once again begging Chicago to be as Chicago as possible.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

This exchange really raises serious questions about Biden's mental alacrity and fitness for office.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

I just spent three hours Monday trying to convince my students they don't exist, so… maybe?

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

Once again, AHA is out here covering themselves in… I'm not sure what, but it sure ain't glory.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

Even better, this season went on RUNS.

You got Redemption, Darmok, and Ensign Ro BACK TO BACK TO BACK.

The season closes with a run of I, Borg; The Next Phase, Darmok, and Time's Arrow.

The middle has Ethics, The Outcast, Cause and Effect, and The First Duty, two of which I HAVEN'T MENTIONED YET.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, go look at this list if you have even a passing interest in Star Trek:

Redemption pt. 2
Darmok
Ensign Ro
Disaster
The Game
Unification
Conundrum
Ethics
Cause and Effect
The First Duty
I, Borg
The Next Phase
The Inner Light
Time's Arrow pt. 1

AND MORE

Just a murderer's row of bangers.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

I was looking at the episode list for TNG S5 and it's an entire season of straight bangers. I'd argue the greatest single season of Trek anywhere.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

I was looking at the episode list for TNG S5 and it's an entire season of straight bangers. I'd argue the greatest single season of Trek anywhere.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 5h

I promise we don't agree with AP frameworks in many (most?) respects. I teach primarily first year students and a big part of my job is basically deprogramming AP students like I've just pulled them out a cult.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 5h

"Meaningful competition"?

Uh, education isn't a competition. It's a collaborative enterprise.

But I suppose this is what you get when the College Board and CLT are driven by profit motives and not, y'know, actually educating students.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

I’d be very curious to see the syllabus. I’m toying with taking my Philosophy and Videogames independent study and turning it at least into a special topics class.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

I was listening to Skeletina back when she was the lead singer for She Shoots Dogs.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

The Angry Goose meme with the goose saying “WHY DID ANTIFA START IN WEIMAR GERMANY, JACK?
WHY DID IT START IN WEIMAR GERMANY, MOTHERFUCKER?!”

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

You’ll never believe this, but Kristi Noem is super into shoegaze.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah? I'll tell you what. Until I get back my five thousand dollars, Antifa’s gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your goddamn partner!!

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

Given that it’s Portland, I feel like we need to take seriously the idea that there’s this really amazing insurrection, but we’ve never heard of it.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

NOEM: Um, he's the Founder of Antifa. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend arrested this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Antifa burn down a 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 9h

New York Times: Trump proposes novel interpretation of First Amendment

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans 2026: "We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 9h

Kevin, would you care to comment on Jack Posobiec's claim* that the dastardly Antifa traces its roots back nearly 100 years to Weimar Germany?

*I apologize for asking an actual historian to comment on anything Jack Posobiec says as a matter of principle.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, please tell me more about how Antifa's roots go back [checks notes] almost 100 years to [rechecks notes, looks in mirror to make sure not having stroke] German anti-Nazi dissidents in the Weimar Republic.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 9h

Pictured: Antifa-led hellfire

A Portland, OR protester dressed in an inflatable frog costume. The left image shows the frog costume from the front, with googly eyes and a blue cape. The right image shows ICE in full riot gear spraying a chemical agent into the frog's air vent.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 9h

They want violence. They fear mockery.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 10h

I genuinely wish the analogues I'm reaching for weren't from the Civil War.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand…"

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 10h

You could do a whole lot worse on objectivity and truth than an Aquinas scholar.