Like a magic ring, it draws an energy out of people, amplifying our capacity for the demonic as well as the prophetic insofar as it serves the ends of public dramatization, escalating and heating things (or our perception of things) up. daviddark.substack.com/p/nobodys-an...
Maybe editors shouldn’t publish them?
Sure, two seconds of user research would have told you this was a stupid idea, but it was much more fun to do it the slow and expensive way that makes everyone hate you
“or”
My linguist colleague just referred to pollen as “allergy squigglies” and I approve.
That response is really interesting to me because by mindset I'm immune or even hostile to a productivity mindset, but I think so much of our culture treats productivity as a virtue in and of itself, so having the AI agent do it just feels good to them, so why stop?
I like poop jokes, got any good ones?
I can confirm that this collection is spectacular. Congrats to @emilyskaja.bsky.social.
Which pairs well with Ivor Richard’s claim that rhetoric is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies.
Yes!
What a wonderful book, and an even better observation by the student!
I'm on a podcast! And @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social too! Come listen to us promote Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. We're a fucking delight, if I do say so myself.
S i NG u Larity is not a real thing
He got my first ever vote for president. Sorry, Al..
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It really is silly. Also, AGI is not a thing and never will be outside what will always be for some a fetishized laziness toward history and having to learn it.
Excuse me while I ignore education hot takes from ivy league insiders.
…in the sense that the latter use token to token links without an interpretant
This is not surprising at all if we start from the premise that, on the level of semiotics, human language is triadic, but computational language is dyadic.
This tells that story pretty clearly from the point of view of a higher Ed/industry insider at the time
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning share.google/Kn6duwUggCwg...
Illustrated cover image titled “Behind the Face of AI,” showing a split face: one half is a tired human with a worried expression, the other half is a glowing robot face. The contrast suggests a human hidden behind an artificial intelligence persona, set against a blue comic-style background.
🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨
In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards.
➡️ data-workers.org/france
go off jack white
The one thing I’ll say that AI has done: made a lot of people demonstrate their definitions of learning, most of which are wrong or not backed up by empirical evidence.
Correct response
As promised earlier my Q&A with @mattseybold.bsky.social on technofeudalism and how edtech has steadily been eroding our freedoms and capturing the value of our labor (and student work) for themselves. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...
“capital flows” 😂
Sarcastic parrots
Apropos of ~everything~, I highly recommend this edited volume: From a Whisper to a Movement”
Like chapter 3: “Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing”
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Front Cover of the book Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski. Cover art by Nafís White. Piece is entitled Oculus (Black, Brown, Navy, Teal) and consists of braided hair woven into a pattern.
Back cover text: Barsczewski and Oleksiak collect chapters that tell stories, build theories, and make cases for what a healthy academic life looks like. Acknowledging that the academy will always take as much as you give, this collection gives readers material for imagining their own "adequacy" barometers. This is essential reading for graduate students and early career faculty as they seek to build sustainable careers.” —Holly Hassel, Michigan Technological University “These excellent contributions illuminate how, for so many of us, the dream of a dignified, well-remunerated academic position is just out of reach. Instead, our working lives are mostly shaped by austerity, contingency, overwork, and underpayment. Adequate dares to name these conditions, calling attention to the innumerable falsehoods and broken promises of the neoliberal university, and articulates a powerful new vision of academic labor.” —James Rushing Daniel, Seton Hall University Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection. Adequate reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work. An invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in the rhetoric and composition field, this volume covers the realities of teaching rhetoric and composition in the modern college environment, as well as potential paths forward for educators in need of a better work-life balance.
Print copies of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and me, came in the mail today! Thanks to @upcolorado.bsky.social for publishing it!
Please report on whether it received a 👍. I would love my kids to discover SpongeBob.