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Brian Kenna
Brian Kenna
@drbrianish.bsky.social
Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.
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If you use AI-produced writing in humanities scholarship you are dead to me. How I evaluate that kind of writing is by crossing you off my list,
Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg
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Replying to @kierongillen.bsky.social
And as an aside - you should not doubt how fucking uncool D&D was in 1998 as a game, and how poisoned that particular well had been for a while. Baldur's Gate turned that around, and if you do want a road from D&D then to D&D now, it does strike me that Bioware's needs more credit than they get.
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That third question strikes me as particularly relevant because (and I'm guessing here) many adults who have cut off their parents probably refuse to answer it, because running to the media to complain is another abusive attempt at control. "They won't talk to me, but they'll talk to the NYT."
“Moral panic” is the right term here, because those raising the alarm make no effort to ask: -how frequently is this happening? -is it more frequent now than in the past? -what do the children of these parents say? -what, exactly, constitutes “cutting off”? -how often are parents disowning children?
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Multi-billion dollar news agencies breathlessly reporting every insane thing a billionaire says is one of the most infuriating things about the world WHO GIVES A SHIT HE'S JUST SAYING NONSENSE And even if he actually DID this, unlike his last 50 promises, a share of SpaceX is worth $146. Wowee.
Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ
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We pioneered what we're calling 'Distributed Development', a bold new corporate strategy where we pay workers less money
Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg
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