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thucydides trap king 👑

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@JimDMiller ok. forgive me if it sounds like your approach to higher ed is just busy work until AGI

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one of the more perplexing things about mindless AI boosterism in universities is why anyone thinks some underpaid adjunct professor who just finished a coursera training on prompt engineering has any edge over a freshman who's been using AI to cheat on papers since 8th grade

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

Colleges can only have some hope of staying relevant by embracing AI. Students will not accept being forced to write essays, do art, or code without AI when they know they could do the same work faster and better with AI, and that employers will expect it.

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@JimDMiller and how do you have confidence that the consensus around AI use in higher ed won't turn against what you and your students decided in a few years?

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@JimDMiller leaving aside the question of how to assess their writing ability (which may not be the point), if you're figuring out appropriate AI use as you go, how can you tell if the student has mastered the material or if AI is filling gaps in their reasoning?

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@mike_slugs oh come on yes it is

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universities: historically well known for rapid and effective adoption of the latest technologies

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i think younger people hate on scorsese for being mid/unoriginal because he was too influential

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scorsese = the american bergman

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

I like Scorsese but why is everyone talking about him like he's Ingmar Bergman... he's a very competent filmmaker but not singular and clearly not infallible

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americans don't want to accept that "middlebrow" is nothing more than an insult meant to humiliate people for having aspirational taste

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@elladorn_ bergman still a bit more middlebrow but only because he's european

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@elladorn_ for professional film critics in the 80s and 90s, bergman was the literal poster boy for middlebrow. scorsese and bergman are both peak middlebrow and that's ok

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it's hard enough promoting a hopeful movie about communism in 2026 without a bunch of nerds raising one eyebrow at you. mind your own business!

[Hobbit’s Pipe @ParagonDeku]

Why is Boots Riley up at 2 in the morning on the movie theater employee subreddit begging people to see I Love Boosters

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@Y2K_mindset i remember this being worse just before/during the GFC. somewhere around the early 2010s was the backlash against unpaid internships and the rise of the "fuck you pay me" ethos

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@babadookspinoza everyone's driving while on their phones and/or THC edibles. i don't think long covid can even get a word in edgewise

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@matthiasellis ime that’s all academics

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@arne__ness what i’m picking up from all this is that authentic hipsters should have violently suppressed stomp clap when we had the chance. foolish to assume the hipster legacy would speak for itself

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@arne__ness wonder if it involved them buying crypto at the top again

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@Arbeitologist @n_hold you dodged a bullet. the scam preys on agreeable/supportive mutuals

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@xoayquanh reminds me how Mates of State were everywhere at one point. seemed way out of proportion to the success of their music

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@mike_slugs the speculation about Trump’s ill health is frankly embarrassing. a watched pot never boils