It's kind of alarming, this just reads like a restatement of what I've already published, within my own field, yet no acknowledgement?
02.03.2026 15:24
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It's kind of alarming, this just reads like a restatement of what I've already published, within my own field, yet no acknowledgement?
What does an academic do when people publish something that basically says exactly what you have said over two books and never even cite you? delibdemjournal.org/article/id/9...
Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.
This is awesome
I tell my students that one of the main reasons not to over-rely on AI for research/writing is because--at some point in the future--you're going to have a face-to-face conversation with someone who matters, and if you don't actually know some things, that interaction will not go well for you.
I think this semester has reminded me more and more of 2017/18 when I was really impressed with students. The pandemic and AI have muddled teaching and learning in so many bad ways. Ask the students to return to forms of education described here and they'll go with you.
This is really good, especially the idea to stop somewhere and let them catch up:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I wrote several books and spent the better part of my career writing about why this matters for democracy and how to do it. I'm skeptical such a movement will happen. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
We already wrote a book on this, much better and more detailed than what's in this essay. www.routledge.com/Radically-Ci...
Oh look, a Harvard person discovered the field of communication. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
So many years of using war rhetoric against the US has turned into war against the US. It's a natural progression, which is why we asked people to notice the war rhetoric when it started. You don't use war rhetoric to prepare a nation for war unless you plan to do it 🥹
Wow. Hey @uwaterloo.ca people in needles hall ought to read this. We need a campus wide ban on AI in classes.
this is great news
And saying Canada needs "robust nationalism" to fight American fascism? Does this guy know anything at all about Canada?
And stop yelling at people about travel and where they choose to go to university. Here's another example of a philosopher that discovers the wheel and is surprised to learn lots of people have known about the wheel for centuries.
And, yes, we know the US is dangerous and shitty a lot of the time, we didn't just discover that last year with Trump. Instead of scolding and lecturing Canadians try listening to them, they know how to build the thing you say you want. You might actually learn something here,
Dude, shut up and stop arrogantly lecturing people in "your new" country that have been negotiating their relationship with their dangerous and unpredictable neighbour for hundreds of years. Yes, canadians have family and friends and houses and businesses in the US
I had some stuff to say for this story:
www.chch.com/chch-news/th...
The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
Why doesn’t this get more attention in the Canadian media?
The decision to recognize the indigenous claim to Canadian land is a misstep, @davidfrum writes. “Just when Canada most urgently needs to jump-start the country’s economic growth, the country’s courts are inventing new obstacles to development”:
Slop has got to be the word of the year.
As I grade my interpersonal communication final exams, I can say that all of this is terrible advice. Sports and movie stars don't make you a sparkling conversationalist:
www.thestar.com/life/convers...
I don’t know which is worse, just the general stupidity of not being able to parent without shit technology or the evil stupidity of trying to hook new parents on your shit product.
What an absolute moron.
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
