“Safety scissors and Elmer’s glue” more or less captures the substance and character of AI, so, and perhaps this makes me naive, I am assuming this is Time clowning on the folks in the image.

There you go! See, this is why I don’t wear my winter gloves, I can just hold my coffee and that’ll do it.

Preach. I don’t think “from my cold dead hands” fully applies here, but maybe from my cold dead veins?

Yup! The idea that higher education should be bent around preparing us for a vocation instead of teaching us how to be good humans is frankly anathema to the humanities’ survival. We need art. We can’t thrive without it.

Behind every polished and published piece on my author pages across my various outlets, there’s a roiling emotional shitstorm of self-doubt and brutal introspection. AI can *never* do that.

Other than your view of academics as customer service, sure. But that’s an incredibly fucked way of considering higher education.

All I can say is, if I ever need a victim advocate, I would want them to possess the sort of empathy one receives through appreciation of and engagement with the humanities. Kinda hard to advocate for anyone without empathy!

Easily his best; I wish he’d continued making movies in this direction instead of what he did through the 2000s and 2010s.

not the first time I've talked about this, but babies and women's health were her career; they were her life. now, the deadliest nepo baby to ever walk into an office he has no business occupying is imperiling each, and using reasoning so bad that it would be preferable were it merely "dubious."