Scott J. Wilson
@scottjwilson.bsky.social
English Instructor & Writing Across the Disciplines Coordinator—Luther College at the University of Regina Insta: scott.j.wilson X: @scott_j_wilson
Drop a lawyer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Drop a lawyer.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.
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i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
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Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.
Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.
Big loss.
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
A lot of us wouldn't be doing what we are doing if not for this fella
RIP DANIEL WOODRELL
RIP DANIEL WOODRELL
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Big loss.
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites.
RIP
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Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious, eerie study finds
Leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down.
www.livescience.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.
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Activists Are Using Fortnite to Fight Back Against ICE.
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE
Players are role-playing ICE raids in “Fortnite” and “Grand Theft Auto” to prepare for real-world situations.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Activists Are Using Fortnite to Fight Back Against ICE.
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/activi...
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I always laugh when someone calls me a ‘paid shill’ for mentioning the scientific consensus on vaccines. If I really wanted to make money, I’d target people’s biases with sensational, polarizing content—the stuff that spreads fast, builds big followings, and turns outrage into revenue.
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I always laugh when someone calls me a ‘paid shill’ for mentioning the scientific consensus on vaccines. If I really wanted to make money, I’d target people’s biases with sensational, polarizing content—the stuff that spreads fast, builds big followings, and turns outrage into revenue.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
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Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Blowing their minds with the Dreamcast logo and telling them they can become a computer if they eat an entire console
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Blowing their minds with the Dreamcast logo and telling them they can become a computer if they eat an entire console
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up