Laura Kremmel

Trying desperately to keep on top of grading this semester and absolutely longing for the days before AI. I can't tell you enough how much worse it has made my job.

How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty’s Fault How to Reverse Declining History Major Enrollment Numbers, Which Are All the Faculty's Fault

"A strategic plan from the Vice Chancellor of Student Enrollment and Faculty Shaming."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

This explains a lot.

Paid extra to have good Girl Scout cookies sent to me from out of state. Because there needs to be some light in this endless winter.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

It’s publication week for Tales of Health, a book that brings a medical humanities framework to the Romantic genre of the National Tale and its questions of health and citizenship.

I'm still playing with the wording of it. "No Gen AI used" is good and simple. I like it.

I have just added a statement in my email signature, "I do not use A.I. for any part of my professional work." Trying it out. I wish people who did use A.I. to write emails had to disclose that, but at least there will be no mistake with mine.

With the exception of one year, I have been on the job market since 2015. I can honestly say, this is the worst year I've ever seen. Just in case you're worried it's just you.

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

What even is Columbia any more? I would have hated this as a student, not just as an instructor.

What about all the trees burned, rivers flooded and species lost thanks to every random billionaire's dick-measuring competition of snake-oil ideas?

Altman is implying people that unnecessary because they "cost" energy. He is grooming his audience for eugenics. Don't fall for this trash-heap.

Damn, The Pitt is such a good show. Not just touching on national issues in healthcare but doing a pretty good job including some local stuff. Tree of Life shooting mentioned in the episode I'm on. Needs more Pittsburgheese, my only criticism. I have yet to hear "yinz."

Make the AI bros explain, in every interview, every medium, every time, how many deaths is their ability to not write their own emails worth.

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Visit the post for more.

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies.

She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia:

#academia #genAI

refusal.blog

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Me: I'm fighting a cold, so you guys need to bring the energy today.

Upper-level class: Haha, no.

And then I made them talk about 19th-century vivisection.

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"We ain't gonna stand for no weirdness out here."
FYI: Friday the 13th marathon live on Pluto right now.

Book proofs for a book called Gothic Dementia

Book proofs! Getting closer to the end... 🤓

This is heartbreaking. And what chance do the rest of us have?

Rewatching Sinners. I think it gets better each time.

Weather alert for extreme cold

Hibernation mode activated

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

I think this is why I love it. It doesn't feel angry at me, but it does feel angry at the world and all its horrible people.

Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.

Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

Looking forward to attending my first @thebsls.bsky.social conference this Spring! Still on my Gothic dementia and eldercare thing.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Suggestions to replace Headspace (but don't use AI)? I really miss it in the dark days of winter?

a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt says someone slap me . ALT: a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt says someone slap me .

More snow today, and I am slowly losing the will to live... so, of course, I'm watching Schitt's Creek for comfort. Thanks, Catherine. 💔