Brianna Hyslop
@behyslop.bsky.social
Sort-of Academic, plant obsessed, fiber arts enthusiast. Now back in NE Wisconsin.
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right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
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Useful to see these responses. But context we need: 1) are they getting any guidance in "asking it questions like a tutor" (tutors do things other than answer questions) 2)what does brainstorming look like? In some contexts, brainstorming is critical thinking/1 www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
August 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Useful to see these responses. But context we need: 1) are they getting any guidance in "asking it questions like a tutor" (tutors do things other than answer questions) 2)what does brainstorming look like? In some contexts, brainstorming is critical thinking/1 www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
There was this phone number you could call and the entire purpose was to tell you the time and the temperature.
And if a friend’s house had Call Waiting, you could pick a time they’d call time & temp and then you’d call them so you could talk at night without the ringer waking up their parents.
And if a friend’s house had Call Waiting, you could pick a time they’d call time & temp and then you’d call them so you could talk at night without the ringer waking up their parents.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
There was this phone number you could call and the entire purpose was to tell you the time and the temperature.
And if a friend’s house had Call Waiting, you could pick a time they’d call time & temp and then you’d call them so you could talk at night without the ringer waking up their parents.
And if a friend’s house had Call Waiting, you could pick a time they’d call time & temp and then you’d call them so you could talk at night without the ringer waking up their parents.
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There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity
July 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity
“AI tools…may unintentionally hinder deep cognitive processing, retention, and authentic engagement with written material. If users rely heavily on AI tools, they may achieve superficial fluency but fail to internalize the knowledge or feel a sense of ownership over it.”
June 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“AI tools…may unintentionally hinder deep cognitive processing, retention, and authentic engagement with written material. If users rely heavily on AI tools, they may achieve superficial fluency but fail to internalize the knowledge or feel a sense of ownership over it.”
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Hey look, I totally get if you say “I don’t trust people who use AI in any form, and that’s why I’m not putting my books on Kobo” but if you are putting your books on Amazon as you say that, I don’t believe that the reason you’re not putting your books on Kobo is that you don’t like AI.
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hey look, I totally get if you say “I don’t trust people who use AI in any form, and that’s why I’m not putting my books on Kobo” but if you are putting your books on Amazon as you say that, I don’t believe that the reason you’re not putting your books on Kobo is that you don’t like AI.
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In one campus study on reading, students had two main complaints. By far their biggest gripe is that the assigned reading rarely gets talked about in class. The second reason — perhaps a more complicated one — is that they don’t understand what they are supposed to be reading for. chroni.cl/4mQCvs3
The Reading Struggle Meets AI
The crisis has worsened, many professors say. Is it time to think differently?
chroni.cl
May 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In one campus study on reading, students had two main complaints. By far their biggest gripe is that the assigned reading rarely gets talked about in class. The second reason — perhaps a more complicated one — is that they don’t understand what they are supposed to be reading for. chroni.cl/4mQCvs3
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hate it when content not created or approved by the newsroom happens to get printed in the end product
We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak. It is not editorial content and was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom. We value your trust in our reporting and take this very seriously. More info will be provided soon.
May 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
hate it when content not created or approved by the newsroom happens to get printed in the end product
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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you will pry my em dashes—my favorite punctuational tools—from my cold dead hands
I use em dashes heavily and I hate that AI also uses them heavily, thereby stigmatizing my grammatical Swiss Army Knife.
no, em dashes are not a reliable sign of AI-generated text. speaking as a human person who loves an em dash clause, i can verify this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
April 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
you will pry my em dashes—my favorite punctuational tools—from my cold dead hands
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Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
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poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars
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I'm struck once again by the similarity in failure rate bt generative AI and "plagiarism detection software," which misses replicated source material 40-60% of the time. I don't think it's a coincidence. Most likely, it shows the threshold where tech CEOs feel they can bilk the credulous.
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm struck once again by the similarity in failure rate bt generative AI and "plagiarism detection software," which misses replicated source material 40-60% of the time. I don't think it's a coincidence. Most likely, it shows the threshold where tech CEOs feel they can bilk the credulous.
If you’ve been as obsessed with the cars of the show as I’ve been:
February 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If you’ve been as obsessed with the cars of the show as I’ve been:
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This is the stuff.
![“AI detection [is] truly bogus, does not work, cannot work. No one should use it. If anyone is using it, students should complain. It’s completely illegitimate,” Seaver said. “It’s based on how these systems work, you cannot know for sure and [it creates] very serious consequences for students.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ny7m556yvn5nirqyvyoeeets/bafkreib5xhjim2b276e26kkv6fcq4m6nqip7moeybmwlpc3h262tfm4vwe@jpeg)
February 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is the stuff.
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Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
studentaid.gov
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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February 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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People worry about students treating school purely as a transaction and then gleefully shove them towards an AI-tutor and then wonder what's wrong. Madness.
January 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
People worry about students treating school purely as a transaction and then gleefully shove them towards an AI-tutor and then wonder what's wrong. Madness.