Now. When you do this, you also have to be prepared for students to pick the OBVIOUSLY WRONG answer and the heartache that comes with that.

Like. I’m not even (that) mad about the money? I just want my drink. And for his son to not see that as acceptable behavior.

At a baseball game. Some asshat dad just knocked my FULL drink all over me. Looked at me like it was my fault and then kept walking. Didn’t say anything. Just stared me down and moved on to his seat (3 down from me).

So the newest AI-drafted defense against being called out for cheating?

“I’m sorry, I don’t really understand what you mean by academic integrity.”

FLABBERGASTED

You misspelled “human trafficking”

Among other things the article highlights how the methods of connoisseurship both replicates and reinforces modern prejudices EVEN for an artist lauded by Michelango and Vasari. Quite extraordinarily, the kicker then doubles down on that fact. Useful short teaching text.

One of the funniest things about academia is that the same institution might have a 30-year humanities prof barely making $80k while a new professor in the finance department comes in at $210k. Some profs actually do make good money, but the vast majority do not at all.

So the newest AI-drafted defense against being called out for cheating?

“I’m sorry, I don’t really understand what you mean by academic integrity.”

FLABBERGASTED

This is my petition to always put a little whimsy in your classes and exams.

I also always include a silly wrong answer in some of my multiple choice questions. Today's favorite is:

Q: Pope Stephen VI famously put the corpse of this pope on trial in 897 CE .

A: Pope Fumigation

Don't mind me in tears over here. A student I had in my Medieval medicine class last semester had asked me to write a letter of recommendation for grad school in Iceland. Well, he found me today to tell me that he got into his top program!

He truly, truly is!

Human plague returns to Apache County after 11 years Arizona authorities said the patient has recovered following medical treatment and emphasized that the risk to the public is low.

Was traveling last week & missed this report of the 1st human case of plague this year in the U.S.--in this case, right here in Arizona. www.newsweek.com/human-plague...

And, as if my excitement over that wasn't enough, as a thank you he gave me an antique coin that has Asclepius on one side and the Caduceus on the other. He said he'd recently gotten into collecting and knew that's what he needed to get for me to thank me.

Legit in tears. The kids are alright.

Don't mind me in tears over here. A student I had in my Medieval medicine class last semester had asked me to write a letter of recommendation for grad school in Iceland. Well, he found me today to tell me that he got into his top program!

This is my petition to always put a little whimsy in your classes and exams.

I also always include a silly wrong answer in some of my multiple choice questions. Today's favorite is:

Q: Pope Stephen VI famously put the corpse of this pope on trial in 897 CE .

A: Pope Fumigation

D. A ghost-based intervention that got slightly out of hand
E. All of the above, and Simba should have been in therapy

This one I actually gave them a few options:
A. A timeless tale about responsibility and leadership
B. A detailed case study in avoidance coping mechanisms
C. Proof that you can delay any difficult conversation long enough if you find the right snacks

3. Draw your professor as a:
a. knight defending medieval Europe from an army of sentient textbooks
b. a dragon hoarding gold coins stamped with “A+”
c. a crusader on a noble quest to find the Holy Gradebook

2. Simba spent years avoiding Pride Rock by eating bugs, hanging out with a warthog and meerkat, and adopting the philosophy of "Hakuna Matata". He only returned home after being guilted by his dead father's ghost in a cloud. Given this evidence, how would you classify The Lion King?

Today's Bonus Questions for the last midterm in my medieval survey are:

Today’s Bonus Questions:
1. What is the most interesting primary source you read this semester? Tell me about what it is and why you liked it so much?

1/x

Is the semester over yet?

SAME.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

'Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”'

Cognitive surrender 🥲

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

I cannot count how many times I heard some variation of this. Or that I was going to that "Soros University" and shouldn't I be ashamed of that?

....No.

It's funny to watch the American news absolutely shocked that it's 4AM in Budapest & the streets are still full & people have no intention of going home.

Bars in that city only shut down long enough to tun over into cafes (roughly 5-6AM) if they shut down at all.

It's still early! Celebrate!

LIVE: View of Magyar supporters celebrating in Budapest | AC1E YouTube video by DWS News

I am so overjoyed for all my friends in Hungary right now. This is beautiful to watch. You can feel the energy, the hope, the promise for the future.

I lived in Budapest for two years.

Two years of watching Orban try to tear down all that was good and special and vibrant and HUNGARIAN.

When I tell you this LITERALLY made me cry, I'm not lying.