Dmitri

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Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. English language teaching, labor, and identity in higher ed. All cats are beautiful (ACAB). #StopCopCity. He/They.

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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I'm reminded of Frederick Douglass on William Lloyd Garrison

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this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

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We need the higher ed media to better describe what's at stake here. These are not "reforms," they're an authoritarian takeover. They're not "bold" or "sweeping," they're undemocratic and fascist. These aren't normal policy recommendations, they're a dismantling of higher education!

How Project 2025 could radically reshape higher edwww.insidehighered.com The sweeping conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration would dismantle the Education Department, privatize student loans and end all ongoing Title IX investigations. Critics say it’s a ...

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I, your friendly neighborhood far-right researcher/political scientist-in-training, am here to let you know that if academic research/media coverage of "polarization" feels weird to you, that's for good reason. Polarization research is, generally, fundamentally flawed and based on assumed symmetry

It's important for you to know that a chunk of conservative dark money has recently been lobbed at academic research on "polarization," and it bears reflecting on why a framing of the US's contemporary crisis that automatically suggests there's blame on all sides would be favored by them

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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The United States Welcomes You by Tracy K. Smith

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Whether you've been having a bad day or a good day, you deserve this baby crow. (Not my photo, sadly!)

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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"Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life." —Henry Beston

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Mainstream coverage of academia this year was all about "wokeness," AI, and accusations of anti-semitism re: Palestine protests, but this is the real story underlying all else. Most people outside of academia have no idea the extent to which higher ed is contracting and crumbling.

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about "AI slop" and "brainrot" robhorning.substack.com/p/born-sloppy

Born sloppyrobhorning.substack.com There has been a push recently to christen unwanted generative content as “slop”: This New York Times piece by Benjamin Hoffman, for example, defines “slop” as “a broad term that has developed some tr...

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I POOPED AT THE SEANCE

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Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

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Every to-do list is a bucket list if you procrastinate hard enough.

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This is fascinating stuff. The TL;DR is that pH massively affects the longevity of viruses in the air and the CO2 we breathe out makes the air more cozy for viruses. Therefore, poor ventilation is bad both for keeping viruses in the air and significantly extending their lifespan in that air! 🧪🦠

A UK research team has discovered that the more CO2 air contains, the longer viruses can stay alive in that air. This is a tranmission double-whammy: poorly ventilated spaces with lots of people in them increases potential viral load and longevity. [statnews.com]

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrinewww.statnews.com CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.

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I wrote about Google's bold decision to use cutting-edge error-generating technology to make its core product much worse, and why I find that decision so inspiring. defector.com/googles-got-...

Google's Got Nothing But Wrong Answers | Defectordefector.com When Google’s new Gemini AI program responded to the search query “how many rocks should I eat each day?” with “at least one rock,” it did not cite the original source for that extremely funny, extrem...

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One strong generational marker I have is that I cannot hear a person say, in a serious voice, "step one" without thinking, "cut a hole in a box."

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Me: AI assistant, decline meetings AI: meetingae, meetingās, meetingārum, meetingīs

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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being a marxist is kinda lovecraftian, you've read lots of esoteric books which alow you to understand the mysterious and collosal forces which guide society and inform every level of our lives, it also makes you sound insane and unable to speak to people normally

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Day 41 of flying my trans pride flag upside down to express my distress. Simply furious that nobody has noticed

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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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34 COUNTS???!

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The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...

Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dashwww.anildash.com A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

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More papers are written with the help of LLMs. More reviews are written with the help of LLMs. Well, AI reviewers prefers AI writers, which creates a feedback loop -- meaning more hollow garbage "knowledge" may proliferates in science. arxiv.org/abs/2405.02150

The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost...arxiv.org Journals and conferences worry that peer reviews assisted by artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, large language models (LLMs), may negatively influence the validity and fairness of the...