Elissa Rodkey

Historian of Psychology & Californian in exile. 🌞

Under contract for "Neither Rat Nor Robot" (Magda Arnold biography) with Oxford University Press!

[Elissa Rodkey @ElissaRodkey]

"Dear, dear, you and me belong so much together!!” My dissertation as chick flick. https://t.co/vNMVzrA4d9 #Valentines

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People who say making college free will actually “decrease the significance of a degree” are accidentally revealing a truth most of us knew: college is prohibitively expensive as a means of class and status maintenance

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

AI: "It looks like you're reading a lengthy document. Would you like to read a summary—"

ME:

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

The element of university collapse that none of the recent reports has taken account of is the rampant overreach of trustees and the total lack of any mechanism for actual university members (faculty; students; staff) to hold them accountable.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“I asked ChatGPT,”

Yeah, I asked Pope Leo, and he gave me a 240-paragraph paper about the ethical harms of using AI.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

[Elissa Rodkey @ElissaRodkey]

@smod4real New murder method!

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

It's so bogus that people who never care about equity in education have suddenly decided the most pressing question of social justice is whether students at one of the most expensive universities in the country will or will not have to pay $20/month to use a plagiarism machine.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is great.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Opened Google Scholar today and was immediately hit with “AI can now summarize academic articles.” Bro, it’s called an abstract and it already exists.

[Pangram @pangram]

What?? 45% of psychology survey responses are LLM-generated?

[Sweet Meteor O'Death @smod4real]

Getting all the people in the back pews with my incense trebuchet

[Elissa Rodkey @ElissaRodkey]

@betajamescuck @NathanJRobinson @curaffairs Shows you haven't been grading a bunch of student papers! There are plenty of tells, it's not really that hard.

[‎➳ ⋆.𖥔 𝘚𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦 @gildfae]

We need to get the Ents together and take down data centres like Isengard.

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Professors at the start of semester: "please check the grading rubric; no AI is permitted in this course"

Professors at the end of semester:

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

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