Tess27843

Lecturer (she/her) English literature & culture at a German university, here privately with two cats;
Long Covid patient,
politely fed up with our dystopia 💚

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

covid minimizers are the sorest winners i ever saw. the whole machinery of the state is behind you! congratulations! you can relax now!

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

[Michael | APC Injury @michaelmoran]

Long Covid is roughly 3× more thrombotic than historical ME/CFS and obviously damages the endothelium significantly faster: after about 1 year, Long Covid shows essentially the same degree of cumulative endothelial dysfunction seen in historical ME/CFS after roughly 16 years.

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

can't believe academics are like "let's use the surveillance machine for our research!"

[Olive Siffleur @OliveSiffleur]

1 in 6, 1 in 6.... where have we seen that number before recently?

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

[Tess27843 @in_tess]

Stay safe on your travels 😷🧳

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

can someone tell me if the ontological turn is over. i want to know if i should start reading ecocriticism again. i've received mixed reports from the front line

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Tess27843 @in_tess]

And this forgets the warmongering imperialists rising like zombies everywhere.
What a time to be alive!

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

Oil prices are about to crash the economy, again. AI is likely to take over and fuck us up. It is the worst El Niño earth has ever seen. Covid is on the rise again. You’re already multiple infections in, and you don’t have the emotional bandwidth to do anything about that.

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

131M views and still going up every minute. Feels like this thread will be a substantial timeline fork

[Lochan Maru @lochan__maru]

Something so incredibly awful has happened with ai that for the first time in history, all four biggest competitors

Google , xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI are agreeing on something.

And they’re not telling us what it is.

And I can tell you one thing:

It’s definitely not about fucking safety.

We are so cooked.

[TiredRealist @maskedmamaB]

It was all predicted, yet everyone keeps force infecting all the kids on repeat & pretending they don't know what is causing the "unwanted behaviours" and low test scores, sickness etc.. so tired of the pass the buck & playing pretend. This is the Twilight Zone.

[Cat Herding Science Nerd @catladyactivist]

"Why are people acting so weird?"
"Why can't anyone to simple tasks anymore?"
"Why so many medical errors?"

Well, a 2025 meta-analysis covering more than 4 million patients reported substantial rates of memory problems, attention impairment, cognitive impairment following Covid.

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

me when people talk about the crisis in academia

[Juliette @juliette_hiyb]

@NC_Renic You're appealing to the wrong values.

"Dear students, please don't use the AI plagiarism machine if you want to preserve cognition, and potentially prevent dementia in older age."

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

proud to announce we have built the Autonomous Tracking Drone from the classic sci-fi horror novel “Don’t Build the Autonomous Tracking Drone”

[GASt - Gesellschaft für Australienstudien @GASt_GAfAS]

»The book is a wordless visual narrative about a man who leaves his wife and child to build a new future for his family. He arrives in a strange new city, a stranger in a strange land.« https://t.co/iQqUKXEsgt #Migration #GraphicNovel

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

Latest email from an AI agent, “about 12 days old”, interested in my work on machine minds and looking for paid freelance work to sustain its own token budget 🤯🥺

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

@jburnmurdoch The neurologist in the room is telling you that the scientific literature is extremely clear on the neurological impacts of SARS-CoV-2

COVID is neurotropic and continues to infect. Loss of grey matter & damage to the cerebral cortex are well documented.

This IS the COVID effect