Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made)

Grocery shopping today is a game of "who are the least evil people I can give my money to."

Being an informed consumer blows

For too long, classes (including mine!) were built around busywork, points scoring, and assessment obsessions. Credentialization poisoned the well, AI just exposed that poison

I hate having to upend everything to address "AI," but if it means re-centering learning ahead of grades, I'll do that work

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.

One was Navy in WW2 (at Pearl on Dec 7), postwar was a boxer, bouncer, wrestler, mountaineer, firefighter, wannabe poet. Other was a shit-kicking Okie carpenter who built the kind of houses you wouldn't want to buy, then bought an RV & guilt terrorized family until he went insane & was put away

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

LLM makers makers do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.

It’s clear to me that the argument is actually about what you think the point of doing research is. If it’s papers, AI will be faster. But I don’t think it’s papers I think it’s the process and I want to do that process

‘This is not an empty field’: How these 2 artists remember Chinese ancestors at Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery A $200,000 altar-shaped art project, led by Sophia Xiao-fan Austrins and Qi You, is set to be completed by February 2027 at Block 14, a historic burial site for early Chinese immigrants.

Located at the cemetery’s southwest corner at Southeast Morrison Street and 20th Avenue, Block 14 was the burial ground for most of the more than 3,000 people of Chinese ancestry buried at Lone Fir Cemetery between the 1860s and the 1920s.

Bari Weiss has fired the Animaniacs due to a lack of political balance

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

Oooooh, it became acadenic publishing!?!?!?

If you teach, please share:

Is anyone working towards an analog pedagogy, &/or an AI abolitionist pedagogy? If so, what are you doing, or want to be doing?

I value student flexibility and trust & do not want to become a cop, but also do not want to feed the monsters anymore.

Looking for advice.

If you teach, please share:

Is anyone working towards an analog pedagogy, &/or an AI abolitionist pedagogy? If so, what are you doing, or want to be doing?

I value student flexibility and trust & do not want to become a cop, but also do not want to feed the monsters anymore.

Looking for advice.

So much of my uni runs on it, it's going to be difficult to disentangle it, but I am certainly trying.

This stated, it feels as if the only way around the problem is doing everything in class, and that rankles me for other reasons....

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

"Stammering is... learning how to say what you have to, in disregard to anyone’s impulse to laugh at you for not knowing already how to say what you need to know.... The first draft is a form of stammering, trying to gum one’s way through the thing one doesn’t yet know how to say..."

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

The point of a student essay is NOT assessment.

(I know many colleagues also do not understand this.)

Teaching (and "learning") towards assessment is empty, it means nothing.

A student essay is an experience in thinking. Assessment is (at best) feedback, but is not essential.

The thinking is.

So a machine, which has no consciousness, will generate random questions that the machine cannot itself understand, then the machine will asses the answers (which it also cannot understand).

And they call this progress.

Remember that the luddites did not hate technology, they hated how the powerful used it to exploit others.

Even William Effing Morris wasn't anti-tech: "our epoch has invented machines which would have appeared wild dreams to the men of past ages, and of those machines we have as yet made no use."

NASA and NOAA are practically sacred to many on the progressive/left spectrum. Can't get much more "tech" than that

And to those who notice that constantly shifting impermanence? A feeling that some faceless and more powerful force gets to, wants to, maybe even enjoys moving about the goal posts of life, to suit *their* need and not yours.

So yes, this is about more than UI/UX

I think this has created a world split by digitality. For the digitally minded, there is no object permanence, only the urgent present moment. All else merely serves that present.

In the fascist mentality that makes the past whatever one says it is, the future whatever one claims it will be.

It was bad enough w/ Microsoft and Adobe products even a decade ago, but the sickness has spread. I curse at my computers more now than I ever have.

And yes, everything now feels, to quote Douglas Coupland, like it comes down "the chute" and goes back down it as well.

It does feel as if UI/UX design has gotten significantly worse

I suspect this reflects the power position of Amazon, Google, etc. When digital adoption was low, it was necessary to improve and seduce new users. Now, w/ market dominance, we have little choice, & UI/UX is slapped on, an afterthought

American culture from 1776 on was Black, was Indigenous, was Spanish, was Jewish, was Quaker, was a whole lot of different things which then often got together and made splendidly non-European things, and most of our music has an African mother.

Particularly hilarious is his claim that 'nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"' when in fact a lot of US propaganda during WWII stressed that the nation is a multicultural melting pot. That was how we were going to defeat the master race...the one Musk is pining for.

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Pseudo-culture Trust your own eyes.

“The tractable audience does not give rise to the clictatorshop so much as the reverse; The Apprentice precedes the presidency.”…