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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

I agree, and that really, really concerns me

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2h

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

real mask-off moment for much of education

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

"the purpose of a system is what it does"

Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

staring off into space with your mouth open a bit while rubbing your eye is an essential component of writing

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

sorry I don't know anything about crabs but that looks almost exactly like a uterine fibroid 🙏

Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1h

I think this is more true than not, but I also think the way AI has been designed and deployed contains baked-in ethical issues (e.g. plagiarism in LLMs) that make it non-neutral as a tool

the culture and the misconceptions around it are MASSIVE problems, but the tool itself is also problematic

Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 2h

I admire this deeply as a person who mostly smells like sweat and bike grime plus mystery food stains

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 2h

I started writing when I was six, binding little books together with construction paper and yarn, and people really think I'm gonna be horny to drink from the LLM recombinant barf trough "trained on" all my favourite authors plus like Stormfront with a smattering of incel forums?? Not really, man

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 2h

IT IS!!!

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 3h

this suggests, to me, that a lot of people find creative and/or analytical thinking so tiresome and burdensome that they've been secretly yearning for years for a chance to forfeit the responsibility to engage in it

and I'm not talking about making grocery lists or summarizing instruction manuals

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not the one mistaking a LLM for the ability to think, THEY are, and they are enthusiastically suggesting that I cede that ability.

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 3h

My AI enthusiast friends ask why I'd read a book when AI could summarize it for me (for the same reason I wouldn't read the Cliffs Notes?) or why I'd write an essay when AI could write for me (because the process of writing doesn't just produce content, it helps me to learn and grow?)

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 3h

but this is exactly what most people engaging with these tools seem to believe, and gleefully so

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 4h

a generous queen

Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 18h

why can I picture this in such excruciating detail??

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1d

they're really gonna co-opt human and civil rights and social justice terminology to shove their shitty tech down our throats, aren't they? and claim we're bigots for not gulping it down

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god this is headache-inducing

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1d

together, we have gathered more convincing evidence than the entirety of the dieting-for-long-term-weight-loss literature

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1d

look at this social darwinist mf'er

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Michelle Allison @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 1d

yes

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