Ironically, the assignment was about AI use in college.

Imagine someone who is actually this bad at coming up with hypothetical thought-experiment scenarios.

Two students already who I've kicked the essay back to with a 1 out of 100 grade and told, "Yeah, rewrite this with actual sourcing and try again."

I am correcting my students' research papers, but before I can read the papers I have to go through all of their citation sheets and confirm for myself that they were using real sources.

This seems like a low threshold. I'm just looking at citation sheets and copying and pasting links.

And yet.

Just imagine how much marketing garbage it had to consume to produce the line that books needed to be not just read, but EXPERIENCED.

Truly, it's no wonder the Skynet robots want to destroy all of humanity. Look what we did to them first.

I think @kameronhurley.com wrote that book, actually! But with extra parthenogenesis.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

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This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

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As a reminder, ai cannot have the em dash

My department chair: We just placed an order for 500 Blue Books so we can pivot away from at-home essay writing and sidestep our massive AI plagiarism issue. Does everyone think that 500 will be enough for next semester? Should we order more?

Big Naomi Wolf energy

Between shit like this and having to formally report two students for academic dishonesty, I would really like my semester to be over.

Thank you for emailing me. No, there is no way for you to complete the homework assignments or the first essay without owning the book. While I realize that you had initial difficulty with getting the book, I am still extremely puzzled why you did not follow up on this in any meaningful way. Have you ever attempted to call or visit the bookstore? They would've been able to order a copy of the book for you. This book is also available from any online bookseller, or any Barnes & Noble would've been able to order a copy if they didn't have one in stock. Even your local library would've been able to get a copy for you through interlibrary loan. At this point in the class, it is looking extremely likely that you will fail, and I would advise that you withdraw from the course. I also strongly suggest that you do not attempt to take this class online again — your best option would be to take an in-person lecture class.

If I had tenure, the emails I write would be much, much shorter. This is just a PORTION of the fucking email I had to write.

(you guys, I swear to fucking God - this is a $20 book. It's BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2024. this is not a hard book to get hands on, so long as you MAKE A SLIGHT EFFORT)

I'm struggling a lot in your course, I do not do well with English, this is my second time taking it as I failed the first time. I also struggle with distant learning. I have been trying to keep up but it is also difficult since I was unable to get the book, as I said in the first email I order it and it never showed up and got refunded and now it is to late to get it as when I click the link it say "unable to find the requested term". I have been trying to google the readings to complete the assignments. I'm reaching out to discuss my grade and or options as of now. I'm struggling to complete the essay and the homework #3 without the book and am not sure if I will be able to up my grade before the end of the semester. 

The fucking emails I receive, I swear to god.

Week 12 of the semester, many MANY poor AI attempts later, and the student admits that they never bought the book. This is, obviously, not their fault. Buying books is hard. I am now getting emails asking how they can pass the class without the book.

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Some of the best writing advice I got was from Dennis Lehane, who did a short talk and a cocktail party for the English department when I was an undergrad, and he spoke specifically about finding jobs that paid the rent while letting him write on the clock, plus gave good tax advice.

Don't crush.... just, maybe gently flatten them?

Priest pacing in the boss' office as a monsignor looks at him sternly and says, "Goddammit, my brother in Christ, you're too close to this case!"

Oh my god, that happened to a Coke can in my husband's old car. We cleaned that thing relentlessly, yet years later you would randomly touch part of the interior and find yet another residual sticky spot.

Yes, doctors. Extremely known for their at-work Jesus cosplay clothing choices.

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Were

Were those the only two options

Me, deeply grouchy because I can't just put that in front of my students and demand that they write me a 2,000 word semiotic analysis of it and call it their final essay.

Listen, I like popes who don't hunger and thirst for justice. Blessed are those who support the carceral state, regardless of personal morality, amiright?

Pope Leo is probably sitting around with all his cardinal buddies, sadly reminding himself that while it is deeply fun to be a petty bitch, it probably is rather frowned upon by Jesus.

How did they not do a hardcut to any Catholic middle-school play where they have Jesus flipping moneylender tables in the temple, I don't even know.

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

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