Every country on planet Earth is built on conquest. Every “indigenous” tribe claimed its land by conquest. Every line on the map, across every continent and every ethnic group, was drawn by conquest. Apologizing for this is like apologizing for gravity.
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
The solution is to embrace LLMs, encourage students to use them as "thinking buddies" or private tutors at home––which is how I use it, and how they'll be using it for the rest of their lives. For exams, pivot to ~100% in-class essays and oral exams. Worked like a charm in my University of Austin seminar.
I'm not sure this is a net-bad change over the status quo. And even if it is, it's inevitable anyway. Resisting it is like resisting the advent of calculators.
The alternative route is a stupid & unwinable arms race between cheaters and cheat-detection. Professors are destined to lose this arms race, b/c the incentives to successfully cheat will always be stronger than the incentive to catch cheaters.
russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago.
the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.
i'm an independent voter who does not belong to a political party
but i think all presidential candidates should be prepared to accept the election results
which leaves me with one option..
@gzeromedia
whoever wins will be my president.
i’m not moving,
i’m not saying it’s rigged,
i’m not even complaining about it.
i’ve cast my balllot,
you cast yours,
and then we get back to work.
@emilybernay To be fair, even after being designated as a category 5, it was expected to make landfall as a category 3 and I think be either a 1 or 2 near the Disney area. But yes, insufficient responsiveness and risk aversion on display lol