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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 48m

Appendix 1: on gun analogies

Nobody ever asked me to teach gun safety in history class. The reasons are so obvious they don't need stating and have nothing to do with whether gun safety matters.

But I am being asked (not politely) to spend history class helping people to learn how to use Al.

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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 · 2h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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a strange voyage @strangevoyage.bsky.social · 50m

Sudden thunder, and the bitter sea denies us its shrimp. Glassy cliffs.

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

haven't they suffered enough

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

must be legal in the uk tho or does buckingham palace get special rules lol

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

pretty sure it's legal here in california 😬

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

13 going on 130

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 4h

also me

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 12h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 22h

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 9h

bedtime baby

A torbie cat standing inquisitively on a bed. Her collar tag says HAZEL

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 10h

misleading: ocean's top baby is me

The Tribune @sanluisobispo.com · 10h

The group was seen zigzagging through the area, boaters said.

Ocean’s top predator and baby spotted in search of their next meal off CA coast

The group was seen zigzagging through the area, boaters said.

bit.ly

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 10h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 11h

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 11h

"In those days, the communists were, I tell you this in all truth, the only human ones." Patrick Chamoiseau

Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 13h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 12h

yeah fuck that

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 12h

so technically it will take me 9 to get the 3 year contract. and I've never made more than $50,000. in LA

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 12h

the pay is below entry level even if the work isn't. I don't even qualify for a 3 year contract for another 3, because even though I've been teaching 6, the years I worked as a TA (with identical responsibilities) don't count

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 13h

A TV screen with music by JOHN CARPENTER in red on black

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 13h

thanks!

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Jac Mac-🎃'-lantern @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 13h

sure if you got anything gothy dancy that's not industrial

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