Matthew Shadle
@matthewshadle.bsky.social
Theologian, ethicist, higher ed administrator. USCCB Representative to National Council of Churches Faith and Order Convening Tables. Interrupting Capitalism (2018). The Origins of War (2011).
Yep.
“Why did the use of LLMs appear to diminish learning? One of the most fundamental principles of skill development is that people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn.”
“Why did the use of LLMs appear to diminish learning? One of the most fundamental principles of skill development is that people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn.”
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Yep.
“Why did the use of LLMs appear to diminish learning? One of the most fundamental principles of skill development is that people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn.”
“Why did the use of LLMs appear to diminish learning? One of the most fundamental principles of skill development is that people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn.”
Talk about speaking ill of the dead.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Talk about speaking ill of the dead.
I was going to ask "Is there blood in the water?" but realized that would be a terrible double entendre.
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Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I was going to ask "Is there blood in the water?" but realized that would be a terrible double entendre.
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Trump needs to be asked over and over why he pardoned this guy if we're at war with narcotraffickers, even if he calls every single reporter in the White House Press Corps "stupid" or "piggy."
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Trump needs to be asked over and over why he pardoned this guy if we're at war with narcotraffickers, even if he calls every single reporter in the White House Press Corps "stupid" or "piggy."
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Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
It was just over a month ago we learned Secretary Rubio betrayed cooperating witnesses to keep quiet an investigation into President Bukele of El Salvador’s secret deal with MS-13. The whole war on narco-trafficking is a farce.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It was just over a month ago we learned Secretary Rubio betrayed cooperating witnesses to keep quiet an investigation into President Bukele of El Salvador’s secret deal with MS-13. The whole war on narco-trafficking is a farce.
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
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God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.
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Future generations of athiests are going to look back and say, yeah sure the first American pope went to Turkey on Thanksgiving, that’s definitely real
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Future generations of athiests are going to look back and say, yeah sure the first American pope went to Turkey on Thanksgiving, that’s definitely real
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This is like demanding that someone jump out of a plane before they’re given a parachute. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
US demands peace deal before security guarantees for Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European allies that President Donald Trump will negotiate long-term assurances for Ukraine’s safety.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is like demanding that someone jump out of a plane before they’re given a parachute. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Wow, I thought this was a paraphrase, but no.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Wow, I thought this was a paraphrase, but no.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
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at some point when I was a kid some Dickens or something captured my imagination and I asked my mom why we never had goose for Christmas dinner and she was like "sure, fine, why not" and I've been a goose for Christmas guy ever since
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
at some point when I was a kid some Dickens or something captured my imagination and I asked my mom why we never had goose for Christmas dinner and she was like "sure, fine, why not" and I've been a goose for Christmas guy ever since
It's important to remember that Pete Hegseth's entrance into TrumpWorld was through lobbying for pardons for war criminals during Trump's first term. The strikes in the Caribbean and now Hegseth's attack on Sen. Mark Kelly have to be seen through that lens.
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Unjust Military Strikes in the Caribbean
A Christian Just-War Analysis
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November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It's important to remember that Pete Hegseth's entrance into TrumpWorld was through lobbying for pardons for war criminals during Trump's first term. The strikes in the Caribbean and now Hegseth's attack on Sen. Mark Kelly have to be seen through that lens.
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lol, lmao, bluesky’s active user base just crashed by 60% because those users are all dead to rights
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
lol, lmao, bluesky’s active user base just crashed by 60% because those users are all dead to rights
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“Dorothy Day took a stand. She saw that her country’s model of development did not create equal opportunities for all. She understood that for too many, the dream was a nightmare, that as a Christian she had to get involved with workers, with migrants, with those discarded by an economy that kills.”
Pope Leo: “Dorothy Day Took a Stand” – Catholic Worker Movement
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November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“Dorothy Day took a stand. She saw that her country’s model of development did not create equal opportunities for all. She understood that for too many, the dream was a nightmare, that as a Christian she had to get involved with workers, with migrants, with those discarded by an economy that kills.”
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Probably some kind of joke you could make about how even manufacturing consent has been moved overseas
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Probably some kind of joke you could make about how even manufacturing consent has been moved overseas
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Remember, Kushner EXPRESSLY PROMISED he would not play a role in Trump's second administration as a way of waiving away criticism that he took billions in Saudi investments
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Remember, Kushner EXPRESSLY PROMISED he would not play a role in Trump's second administration as a way of waiving away criticism that he took billions in Saudi investments
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also they aren’t even trying to sell it
it’s just like, hey everyone, we’re doing regime change now
it’s just like, hey everyone, we’re doing regime change now
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
also they aren’t even trying to sell it
it’s just like, hey everyone, we’re doing regime change now
it’s just like, hey everyone, we’re doing regime change now
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They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
Here's a weird historical fact: John Duns Scotus had already lived and died (1308) just less than a 100 years after St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan order (1209). For some reason it feels like there's a larger time span there.
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Here's a weird historical fact: John Duns Scotus had already lived and died (1308) just less than a 100 years after St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan order (1209). For some reason it feels like there's a larger time span there.
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If the outcome is in the job description, then the job isn't "judge."
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If the outcome is in the job description, then the job isn't "judge."