Bruce Buchan
@brucealexb.bsky.social
Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
Not sure it’s the best thing I’ve read on AI in higher ed, but it is worth reading. It confirms my worst suspicions and most depressing experiences. Abomination that it is though, AI is only one of the horsemen of the looming Apocalypse, the others being user pays, student debt, and job readiness.
Reposted by David Brady, Miles Corak, Bruce Buchan
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
The news in brief(s).
The far right are no longer knocking on the door to public office, because centrist governments the world over have been busily taking that door off its hinges.
A more potent reason is that those of us who live outside the US are nonetheless shackled to it. We live within the US imperium, and it’s that that poses the threat of fascist infection.
Gold! I’d like to advocate for its inclusion (with full attribution of course) in every class we teach in the Humanities at my university in Australia.
The political epitaph for a generation of American evangelicals will read “we professed faith to protect pedophiles in power who made cruelty and corruption our legacy to future generations.” They did the Lord’s work.
I don’t think it does. One may have polity without a state. Renaissance republics and Greek city states were polities, but were not states. The state is a particular and fairly recent historical formation, whereas polities seem ubiquitous in the human record.
Europe’s #Enlightenment invented race as it also invited its critique.
In 1780, James Dunbar warned that by dividing humanity into races: "...the oppression or extermination of a meaner race, will no longer be so shocking to humanity.”
- Essays on the History of Mankind, 1780, page. 150.
In 1780, James Dunbar warned that by dividing humanity into races: "...the oppression or extermination of a meaner race, will no longer be so shocking to humanity.”
- Essays on the History of Mankind, 1780, page. 150.
These are people who’ve lived their entire lives in servitude to paymasters. They cannot survive except under the golden showers the rich, powerful, entitled, and privileged precipitate upon them. Their minds have atrophied, their consciences shrivelled. They are emptied, vitiated husks of life.
We should not confuse authority with power. Authority is a quality one recognises or withholds. Power does not care. In the same way, we should not confuse government with the state. Anarchists, it seems to me, were proponents for government (of various sorts) without the state (in any form).
I don’t ever recall an instance of a stand over merchant lauding their “transparency” as an benefit of accepting their protection racket.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Thankyou for your attention to this blather.
40 years flogging motor oil and retail racism. Of course he is.
Here in Sweden, excitement is building for Australia’s team selection for #TheAshes.
“I think they wanted to make a point,” said Quinn Haberl, who is 4-foot-6 and legally blind. “So they picked the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it.”
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
This is the fascist playbook. It never, ever changes. Fascists only ever persecute the most vulnerable among us. They have no conception of seizing power from oppressors in the name of justice. Their entire raison d’être is to stomp on the oppressed and call it vengeance.
Asleep at the steal.
None of these factors unique to your country, and yet there you are.
Bumbling stupid cops is one thing, but what really irritates me to my core is the saccharine sincerity with which our media and political elites pretend that universities are the hidden frontline of antisemitism sweeping the country… even as literal Nazis are welcomed onto our streets!
How Americans have allowed their elections to be so maliciously and incompetently managed is one of the greatest conundrums of our era. Just about every other democracy runs their elections more efficiently and fairly. It’s not rocket science.
An image so searingly literal it could not even qualify as a metaphor.
We have paranoia about anti-semitism at universities, while literal Nazis are given the green light to march on our streets. Keystone cops.
The NAACC. The National Anti Anti-Corruption Commission.
Spoken like a true Quisling of our age.
There’s not a day that passes when I’m genuinely grateful to live outside the US, in a functional democracy in which shutting down the whole of government for tactical advantage is impossible.
The opprobrium and disgust attaching to ICE and its operatives will be generational.
Those people are so dumb, that future generations will genuinely struggle to comprehend that sufficient voters apparently in command of their faculties chose to empower them, and repeatedly gifted them the impunity born of their own carelessness.