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Scary how accurate this is
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Scary how accurate this is
My evals this semester were terrible. I’m not teaching next semester because of it. The main complaint? I made students do exams by hand and the other section got to use their computers. Guess which section has a huge cheating problem.
This didn't make it in, but I tried telling the reporter that the reason students use LLMs with impunity is that 70% of faculty are temporary, contingent workers who require perfect student evals to continue having a job.
Cheating is a problem we chose to have and pretend to be mad about.
Cheating is a problem we chose to have and pretend to be mad about.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My evals this semester were terrible. I’m not teaching next semester because of it. The main complaint? I made students do exams by hand and the other section got to use their computers. Guess which section has a huge cheating problem.
I think it reads more like we fucked up the first firing for cause and have to redo it to make it stick. Everybody covering their asses time.
the campus-wide email asking umich people to report any information they may have on sherrone moore feels like an indication the initial internal investigation into him was not a serious undertaking
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I think it reads more like we fucked up the first firing for cause and have to redo it to make it stick. Everybody covering their asses time.
Tilda hit the nail on the head. Accommodations are more work for people that are already overworked and underpaid. IMO they are also the right thing to do. Richer people will benefit more from inclusion policies. When your students are rich kids it can feel like that they are gaming the system.
the central issue in all the talk of accommodations in education is that like it or not, they are extra work, and teachers who are committed to making their classrooms more accommodating are signing up for a lot of extra unheralded and uncompensated work, and at the end of the semester that sucks
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Tilda hit the nail on the head. Accommodations are more work for people that are already overworked and underpaid. IMO they are also the right thing to do. Richer people will benefit more from inclusion policies. When your students are rich kids it can feel like that they are gaming the system.
Time to make some calls I guess
How often does the thing people have expected for 2 years to happen in 2-3 years actually happened in 2 years
Nothing is absolutely confirmed yet, but there is way too much smoke from everywhere, including College Station.
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to make some calls I guess
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I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEEZIEST COACH
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEEZIEST COACH
I lost it at this moment
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I lost it at this moment
Created tier system for CFB. Just using @espnbillc.bsky.social model and data to come up with something reasonable.
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FBS tiers
Introduction1 Ranking college football teams is hard. There are numerous reasons for that. However, it boils down to too few datapoints. There are 136 teams in FBS2 and during the regular season ea…
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November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Created tier system for CFB. Just using @espnbillc.bsky.social model and data to come up with something reasonable.
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I read all the examples for human scientists behavior and find myself agreeing with them.
Shout outs to the greatest Tumblr thread of all time:
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I read all the examples for human scientists behavior and find myself agreeing with them.
This is how you do game 1 of the season. Don’t play a team with a pulse. If they don’t have a logo, even better.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is how you do game 1 of the season. Don’t play a team with a pulse. If they don’t have a logo, even better.
Racially ambiguous football coaches. An endless fascination.
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Shaka Smart All-Stars
In 2011?1 an ESPN article talked about how then hottest college basketball coach prospect Shaka Smart played in an all white AND an all black basketball league at the same time. Like Shaka Smart a …
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November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Racially ambiguous football coaches. An endless fascination.
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I feel this in my soul.
Almost fought a dude today. God, I miss fighting.
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I feel this in my soul.
I swear to god yall can't read. The whole article talks about the views of Dem commentators, two sitting senators, and the consultants constantly telling the party and voters to moderate and ditch nonwhite people to appeal to whites under the guise of pragmatism or pushing the party to the left.
Claiming this is reflective of the Democratic party is just not true. Janet Mills is right there!
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I swear to god yall can't read. The whole article talks about the views of Dem commentators, two sitting senators, and the consultants constantly telling the party and voters to moderate and ditch nonwhite people to appeal to whites under the guise of pragmatism or pushing the party to the left.
The story is about farm land owners not farm workers. "Farmer" is deliberate obfuscation of to make them more likeable. It would be the same if a story about tech VCs was about "Programmers" or a story about gallery owners framed as "artists are struggling".
It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The story is about farm land owners not farm workers. "Farmer" is deliberate obfuscation of to make them more likeable. It would be the same if a story about tech VCs was about "Programmers" or a story about gallery owners framed as "artists are struggling".
James Harden 40/1 👀👀👀
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
James Harden 40/1 👀👀👀
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Is pickleball like Temu tennis?
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is pickleball like Temu tennis?
Instead, IU football coach got a new contract ($92.8 million) a week after Mark Cuban donated to the football team.
Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Instead, IU football coach got a new contract ($92.8 million) a week after Mark Cuban donated to the football team.
Everything that gives your team an edge is good and should be done. Work the refs, throw trash, lie, etc etc
To be clear, it's exactly as legal as throwing all the water bottles in the stadium onto the field to successfully get a call changed.
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Everything that gives your team an edge is good and should be done. Work the refs, throw trash, lie, etc etc
TS is behaving like YugiOh, Pokémon and MtG now. Just releasing a billion versions of the same thing that are increasingly rare, "exclusive" and expensive. Just sucking the fanbase dry.
this shits excessive, even for taylor
gotta beat that adele record for 30 somehow i guess
(my daughter's version is the regular LP. if she wants a special vinyl she can pay for it herself)
gotta beat that adele record for 30 somehow i guess
(my daughter's version is the regular LP. if she wants a special vinyl she can pay for it herself)
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TS is behaving like YugiOh, Pokémon and MtG now. Just releasing a billion versions of the same thing that are increasingly rare, "exclusive" and expensive. Just sucking the fanbase dry.
Some nonsense to distract form *gestures wildly around*
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Grading CFB recurring ads
Is this review sorted in any way? NO. Is this review consistent in any way? Also NO. Is this review the absolute truth? YES. Woke up feeling the cheesiest , Coach! (Cheez-It)1 A classic. Aways brin…
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September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Some nonsense to distract form *gestures wildly around*
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This looks like another football post, but it's actually about the vulgar arrogance of the vulgar positivism of decision theory.
Don't be resulting
On the vulgar arrogance of the vulgar positivism of decision theory
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September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This looks like another football post, but it's actually about the vulgar arrogance of the vulgar positivism of decision theory.
Harvest has started and 0 soybeans have been sold to China. This article (source is obviously biased) has more historical data and more important info on futures. Read this U of I summary. Figure 1 shows sales are low in the summer, but it is never actual 0. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/09/us-s...
September 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Harvest has started and 0 soybeans have been sold to China. This article (source is obviously biased) has more historical data and more important info on futures. Read this U of I summary. Figure 1 shows sales are low in the summer, but it is never actual 0. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/09/us-s...
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
This list good actually. Someone has to play Oklahoma (Ole Miss), Ole Miss (LSU), and Vandy (Auburn).
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This list good actually. Someone has to play Oklahoma (Ole Miss), Ole Miss (LSU), and Vandy (Auburn).