Ted McCormick

So, yes, this is a big problem at all levels now, and on a personal note I would like teachers to consider what they’re doing to students who spot a problem in an assignment but don’t yet trust their own judgment enough to be sure because they haven’t been taught.. and now clearly aren’t going to be

Absolute dereliction of duty, fireable offence the first time

Quite apart from the substance of this the fact that Canada is now giving its legislation the same stupid Big Strong Patriot-type names as the US should tell you this isn’t going anywhere good

I came up with a 100% safe way to use this in the classroom. Don’t ask it anything

For those comparing critical AI to gun safety, not using guns in the classroom is also my policy

it didn’t work

the party of ideas

Clever but not smart will be the death of us

looking at all the basic social and familial relationships that weird paid losers are telling us they delight in using chatbots for, and — if you believe them, anyway — I guess I’d say you can forget about reading and writing, because simply interacting with human beings is going to be a niche skill

to put it another way

looking at all the basic social and familial relationships that weird paid losers are telling us they delight in using chatbots for, and — if you believe them, anyway — I guess I’d say you can forget about reading and writing, because simply interacting with human beings is going to be a niche skill

it’s as if the crudest and cruelest stereotypes of the “tech” person are being marketed as a universally treasured ideal, achievable through tech

looking at all the basic social and familial relationships that weird paid losers are telling us they delight in using chatbots for, and — if you believe them, anyway — I guess I’d say you can forget about reading and writing, because simply interacting with human beings is going to be a niche skill

asking the bot for some design tips for my "child," a character I'm deeply invested in

next week, in the Chronicle of Higher Education: positive dissertation references to cheesecake are down 70% since The Use of Pleasure appeared in English, a new study shows. Positive references to capacollo up 30% in the same period. Does this explain the crisis of the humanities?

Cheesecake Factory Exposed as DEI in Reverse "Milkshake Duck"

don't worry, nothing's happened, I just wanted to see if I could write a headline nobody who died three years ago could read

I was a member of a faculty union that excluded governance questions because they aren’t about salary or working conditions, and I’ve been a member of a professional organization that can do nothing about jobs or governance because they aren’t about professional standards, and neither of these works

There are, it must be said, political questions (macro and micro) that divide the membership. But that is the nature of organizations of any size. Unfortunately, most of the forces shaping the end of the profession are colorably “political” too. Excluding politics means choosing not to address them.

I was a member of a faculty union that excluded governance questions because they aren’t about salary or working conditions, and I’ve been a member of a professional organization that can do nothing about jobs or governance because they aren’t about professional standards, and neither of these works

one thought I have about this is that it feels less "historic" when you know there are still nazis walking around and running for office

also, if your mind was changed by learning that the Daughters of the Confederacy were behind so many of those "historic" monuments to slaveholders, you'll never guess who put up the Eagle's Nest