"Most of the Maga audience simply cannot be appeased."
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"Most of the Maga audience simply cannot be appeased."
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Clearer: “It is reported that part of a previously shot down Russian Shahed drone detonated under the ship.”
You can support the GOP *OR* you can support our Constitution. Americans support our Constitution, but Republicans stopped honoring it 1/7/21: their nominee is one demonstration of this, as well as supporting extrajudicial kidnappings and unlawful trafficking of humans to deathcamps, among other ⚖💥
How the wealthy 1% manage in such trying times with the insider group meanings of their expensive and stupid shirts.
Ongoing Sources of AI Professional Development: A Short List for Higher Education Just added TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, a peer-reviewed assignment bank edited by @anetv.bsky.social, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler. I've encountered so many exciting ideas in there.
Clay Shirky, vice provost at NYU, tries to help faculty adapt to digital tools. Recently he wrote about student use of artificial intelligence. "Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Could interactive orals (IOs) be the antidote to AI overreliance in higher ed? Discover how this scenario-based #assessment boosts authentic #learning and sharpens students’ communication skills: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/ios-o... #AcademicSky
Currently reading an article about the impact of AI hype. There’s so much here, but the impact of AI investment on the balance of military investment and power is the most damning. (Highlights my own) Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
I’d vote for him again.
www.wsj.com/politics/sil... Silicon Valley continues to show its contempt for democracy: planning a $100million super-PAC to combat regulation of AI. From @wsj.com's @amrithramkumar.bsky.social and Brian Schwartz. Thanks tech overlords!
Reviewing university offerings is always a good idea, writes The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board. But the humanities should never be forgotten.
Using Linux and Apple half the time now. Windows at work. I love Linux. Apple ain’t Windows and it’s well supported. Kinda fancy. Much, much more expensive than Linux. Running Ubuntu Mate on an 8-year old gaming desktop and OMG—it starts-up and runs fast! Like liquid quick. Can’t run Win11 on it.
Using Linux and Apple half the time now. Windows at work. I love Linux. Apple ain’t Windows and it’s well supported. Kinda fancy. Much, much more expensive than Linux. Running Ubuntu Mate on an 8-year old gaming desktop and OMG—it starts-up and runs fast! Like liquid quick. Can’t run Win11 on it.
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
In the ancient satirical TV programme, A Very Peculiar Practice, set in a university campus, the management team discuss closing the Philosophy Department but one of them says ‘Gee I don’t know. It’s good to have some old folk around talking about truth and beauty.’ We need that kind of thinking.
It’s edited and meant to exonerate King Trump to the faithful. I.e., lies from a lying liar mean to put the MAGA base back to sleep.
Nationalizing industries. 🤔 It ain’t conservatism. It ain’t liberalism. It’s a kind of capitalism. Cronyism? Fascism is a marriage of capitalism & the state. Communism is a wholesale state takeover of private companies. Social democracy is citizen focused: safety nets & a strong regulatory state.
Otherwise known as communism.
Nice. 👍🏻
At first, I thought your account name was “Allison Galveston.” Now that’s a Texas name. Howdy from Houston! 🤠
It’s important work and they’ve won cases.
“.. the first to use the presidency to be a gadfly, flitting around and sticking his vindictive nose where it doesn’t belong .. It’s going to take a long time to fix all the horrible overreaches of this president.” - Dowd @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
So, how do we reduce AI misuse/learning loss in writing assignments? These slides for a recent presentation show how I layer strategies. link.annarmills.com/guiding 1. Frame the value of writing for thinking and make assignments motivating and social. 2. Set up guardrails to discourage misuse.
More lessons on how to regress a population.
this! and large platforms, genAI and the AI industry in general have been instrumental fuel powering authoritarianism
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
All we have of freedom, all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we draw— Leave to live by no man’s leave, underneath the Law. —Kipling, “The Old Issue,” 1899
Do you consider exhortations about the cognitive atrophy implications of misuse or over-reliance to be well placed? These of course would be accompanied, in a most constructive spirit, to statements observing that as a class we will look for ways to use the tools responsibly and ethically.
I think all exhortation on this topic is likely useless. Assignments that only work if students are persuaded by exhortation? One of the classic blunders. 1. Older ppl exhorting younger ppl about recent cultural trends 2. Land wars in Asia 3. Going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
I made a snarky Western list to show how far behind we are in fostering an ecosystem vis a vis China.
where is the “llms as power centralising enshittificators regressing society, knowledge, culture to the mediocre” position cuz that's where i'd fit
Whether or not AIs “truly” understand is less important than how they reshape jobs, politics, and culture. My new post: why the “Human of the Gaps” fallacy distracts us from governing real-world AI impacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-retrea...
I think he’s trying to fabricate a national emergency to avoid holding the mid-terms. He’ll roll this out to other Dem-controlled cities over the next 12 months claiming they are all out of control and declare national emergency, especially if the residents push back against it
Is Gen AI replacing QA teams? This article offers a reality check on the hype, exploring AI's limitations and its true value in augmenting human testers.
Half of us who vote have, but yeah, the dipshits who voted for him need to wake the fuck up, and I guess the consumer price index will have to start causing them pain.
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As an olive skinned Australian, there's absolutely no ****ing way I will again visit the US again while there is a non-zero chance that I could end up in Guantanamo or an El Salvadorian prison with no due process.
Reviving a lost art form?
Thank you, Prof. Wolfers. I always pay close attention when members of the media are interviewing you.
Four things can happen when a tariff hits: 1) Foreign firms cut prices 2) Retail margins get squeezed 3) Retailers pass it on to you 4) Some imports just stop Latest data: #1 didn’t happen, #2 a lot at first, #3 a bit so far, and #4 in spots. Bottom line: Americans (#2, #3) are paying the tariffs.
He's weak. That's why he's trying to swing his old dick around at everyone, trying to prove to all that it still works.
Why?
On 2 March 2025 the Macbook was condemned 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris,' where it was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart ...'
I love dashes. Don’t @ me.
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Same might be said for the U.S., mutatis mutandis: our upper House, the Senate, has deteriorated in its rules, some of its members are extremely old, & in its inability to fulfill its function as the more deliberative “cooling saucer” House of the Legislature. We’ve locked in a far right party, too.
I'm okay with those suggestions.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Be clearer. Who's "Y'all"? What "cause[s]"? What "effect[s]"? What "individuals"? Which "leaders"?
Fuck that "Bluesky." It's blind and only wants to wallow in defeat.
You don't know that. If he changed one mind or led one person to begin their own path to discovery of the falsities that MAGA cheers violence and corruption upon, then that's to the good. What the hell else is an opposition candidate supposed to do? Coddle the choir with feel good pieties?
It's "folks" who prefer to be out of power so that they can't help the marginalized in any event.
I’m going live with California governor Gavin Newsom at 5:00 p.m. ET. Link is here:
Like much else in this administration, it was all for show.
Searching for a #PDF: Chung, Jaesik. “Gregory Bateson’s Gift of Double Bind and the Logic of Meta-Communication.” The Journal of English Language and Literature 66 (2020): 697-719.
of course the president’s BLS nominee is a jan 6er
If you're curious, please browse the slides and take the poll to share your reactions! link.annarmills.com/humanprompting
It’s gross.
Trump’s “interpretation of history.” 😃
She needs to go away and retire. She ran in the 90s on a promise of term limiting herself! So, she’s a liar. Why the Maine people keep voting for her is a mystery to me. She’s ineffective and past her expiration date.
America speedrunning the Troubles
NY’s @GovKathyHochul: “All of a sudden this happens when they refuse to release the Epstein files. No one’s buying this… Texas, knock it off, and we ll knock it off. But we’re not gonna sit on the sidelines.”
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
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Yeah. The campaign come-on of “We’re going after the drug dealers, murderers, and rapists!” was obviously a cloak for simple racism.
So Trump is the “strong man” appeaser?
Yeah, I want worldly politics in my spiritual experiences at church.
Drunk, bar-fighting dad who abandoned his kid but gave him a name guaranteed to get the boy into fights all his life. As advice for being a good father, it would not fly today. A fun song. A politically correct scold wouldn’t approve, but the rest of us are adults who can recognize what’s what.
Well put.
Yeah. The campaign come-on of “We’re going after the drug dealers, murderers, and rapists!” was obviously a cloak for simple racism.
"We present evidence that mainstream Anglophone philosophy is insular in the sense that participants in this academic tradition tend mostly to cite or interact with other participants in this academic tradition, while having little academic interaction with philosophers writing in other languages."
Yeah, I have to agree. I know a couple of serious Deleuzian scholars who make arguments in books that are thought-provoking. These are erudite, hard-working writers, & I think DnG‘s What is Philosophy & AntiOed are worth knowing. The problem is I can barely understand a word of online Deleuzians.
This is the way.
I aggressively mute stupid and block trolls and scolds. No one has time to put up with them. And ffs, do some research and cheerfully provide documentation, and be kind to people.
This MAGA Republican Party would be okay with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait back in the day.
Drunk, bar-fighting dad who abandoned his kid but gave him a name guaranteed to get the boy into fights all his life. As advice for being a good father, it would not fly today. A fun song. A politically correct scold wouldn’t approve, but the rest of us are adults who can recognize what’s what.
Yeah, I have to agree. I know a couple of serious Deleuzian scholars who make arguments in books that are thought-provoking. These are erudite, hard-working writers, & I think DnG‘s What is Philosophy & AntiOed are worth knowing. The problem is I can barely understand a word of online Deleuzians.
She needs to go away and retire. She ran in the 90s on a promise of term limiting herself! So, she’s a liar. Why the Maine people keep voting for her is a mystery to me. She’s ineffective and past her expiration date.
I had a fucker of a step-dad who teased me non-stop as a teen but would always counter with, “I was just joking!” 🙃 It was still abuse.
Trump said during the 2024 campaign that he wanted “his people” to idolize him the way Kim Jong-un’s people venerate and worship him.
That was terrible to learn.
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I.e., I don’t pay much attention to them beyond checking how screwed up they are from time to time.
I don’t want the federal government’s goddamn political officers deciding what professional journalists in their considered and publicly accountable judgment think the public needs to hear and has a right to know.
Holy shit. Pure fire from...an FCC commissioner.
AI reminds me of the analogy of the high schooler who looks at reading & knowledge acquisition as copying & pasting what others have said versus the grad student who is reading critically & rhetorically (who wrote this, why, to whom, for what purposes?), synthesizing & positioning as one goes.
Didn’t I once read Milton Friedman argue that under ‘free to choose’ capitalism the state can’t control the media?
Between the 1910s and 1980s malaria and hookworm went from being rampant to virtually eradicated. Yes, I’m talking about the United States. That’s what concerted, intelligent, public health programmes can do.
When journalists report someone saying AI will be able to do another person’s job in 5 years, a lot of questions that should be asked and aren’t. One of the most obvious ones is: what do you think that job *is*? Because if the answer is “producing text that looks a certain way,” it’s probably wrong.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. —Neil Peart 😬
I wonder how AI hypesters expect to have relatively less literate & functionally illiterate people gain as much if anything from AI as people who are already more literate & cultured. Raises a question for me: What will AI’s social impact & actual dividend be on & for the populace?
I wonder how AI hypesters expect to have relatively less literate & functionally illiterate people gain as much if anything from AI as people who are already more literate & cultured. Raises a question for me: What will AI’s social impact & actual dividend be on & for the populace?
For sure. Someone who can see the possibilities of seemingly unrelated things and not just blithely drive by them.
That’s the painful stuff.
AI reminds me of the analogy of the high schooler who looks at reading & knowledge acquisition as copying & pasting what others have said versus the grad student who is reading critically & rhetorically (who wrote this, why, to whom, for what purposes?), synthesizing & positioning as one goes.
It’s also de-skilling if programmers let the AI drive their code. You still have to type, to write by your own hand, to keep your skills, your own muscle memory intact. If a programmer goes too “meta,” they’ll end up a mere project manager who has general outlines but lessening know-how & judgment.
These people are scrambling for intimidation angles and propaganda points for their base of Kool-Aid drinkers.
The dream of automated learning still lingers. I saw a paper dated not long ago tackling the problem of how to increase MOOC completion rates. You know, getting out of that obviously dismal 1% or 2% completion rate MOOCs are known for.