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Stefan Holander
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A kind of Luddite.
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Thanks, and you are 100% welcome to do so.

I'm also using this as a bit of a test: if a dept I apply to has a committee that doesn't agree with this I wouldn't want to work there anyway, like boarding the Titanic after it sights the iceberg
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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My statement on teaching (looking for permanent teaching-centric gigs)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It really really is bad in the CS side, and I've dealt with too many faculty who are all gaga over it...
Statement on Teaching:
Statement on Teaching: Effective Programming in the Age of “AI” Nicholas Weaver nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html Computer science is not computer programming but computer p...
docs.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Her fikk han svar på tiltale.

«Det er selve konstruksjonen: Du skal kunne underkjennes selv når du gjør alt «riktig». En permanent prøving der majoriteten alltid har siste ord om din tilhørighet.»

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
Asle Tojes lojalitetslaboratorium
Mustafa Can svarer Asle Toje.
www.aftenposten.no
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I have not used it to brainstorm, rubber duck (this is what friends and actual rubber ducks are for), create concepts, outline, coach, suggest titles, whatever. I have not willingly used it for a damn thing.
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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How to have good hair:
- Have whatever hair, even bad hair

- Walk around like you have that hair on purpose
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Learning management systems also of course lock in institutitions to multi-year budget-raiding subscription contracts, enforce templates that restrict pedagogic autonomy, and claim extra value from turning usage data into feature upgrades, *in addition* to being major time and labour drains
This recent study found learning management systems sold to schools since the 2010s as time-savers (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) tend to be burdensome and contribute to burnout.
December 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in

If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Pogues
Ramones
Hasse 'Kvinnaböske' Andersson
The Tragically Hip
Midnight Oil
Lila Downs
Pink Floyd
Flogging Molly
Social Distortion
Nortec Collective
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Rush
ZZ Top
The Donnas
Aerosmith
Billy Joel
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A Google Doc from Miriam Posner at UCLA with the pros and cons of different strategies for dealing with students using ChatGPT for writing
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle the issue of LLMs in an undergrad writing-intensive class. None of these strategies is perfect, ...
docs.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Don’t look away from what’s happening in Ukraine. The Russian Terror State continues their never ending onslaught.
Cosmic fucking horror
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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We begin today with a content warning: this dispatch from history is not for the faint-hearted. However, if you wish, do please join me for the tale of the Sun King’s anal fistula and the three-hour operation performed on it without anaesthetic on this day in 1686... 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I know a lot of you need this
New awareness campaign
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Det här med ”manlighetens kris” alltså… känner väldigt många män som INTE krisar på något särskilt sätt och det de har gemensamt är att de inte håller på så mycket med sin ”manlighet” utan bara kör på med livet, jobbet, ungarna, kulturen, politiken osv.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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30 October 1935 | A Jewish boy, Georges Halpern, was born in Vienna. After his mother, Séraphine, was hospitalised and had to separate from her son, Georges was taken to the Izieu children's home.

Deported to #Auschwitz with other children on 13 April 1944, and murdered in a gas chamber.
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM