Cameron Campbell
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Cameron Campbell
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Middle-aged husband, dad, punk. Ed-tech guy. Tired. Grumpy. Moar coffee? Des liens et contenu parfois en français. (please excuse mistakes, it's a WIP) Montréalais. Union? Forever.
He/Him/Buddywhosit/accomplice/problem. Free Palestine.
Reposted by Cameron Campbell
My repost was a riff on what I heard our CFO say out in Silicon Valley during the first tech boom--that we didn't necessarily want to show a profit any time soon because then investors would have a P/E ratio to gauge our stock price against; without a ratio, the sky was the limit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by Cameron Campbell
The markets today are like a restaurant where the owners and employees eat first, and the paying customers get cold leftovers if there are any.

Or a casino where the house - institutional investors - always win.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Cameron Campbell
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So fucked up.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So that means legally you can’t?
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wait? What?
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
...bad at your level. You should see the engineering students. I'm never walking across a modern bridge ever again."
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yeah, it's.. very strange out there. Our kid, since I work at home two days a week, overhears conversations I'm having when she's in the kitchen. I was having a "here are the drawbacks, have you thought about this" sort of conversation with a teacher. When I got off our kid said "you think it's...
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wanna bet this was a search or a chatgpt thing? "hey [insert shitty plagiarism 'tool' name here] what's a biblical figure who talked about flight?"
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
... a prompt that writes a bad essay" isn't. The inability to do the math, to understand it for real, in say, engineering means we're graduating engineers who are a) unsafe b) destined for the lowest rung engineering jobs and will never move up.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
So the thing is that makes sense in a tech program. Like, if we graduate graphic or product design students who are ignorant of the AI tools within the tools they use professionally, that would be bad. Because that is fast becoming a core competency. But in, say, a writing course, "able to make a...
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
...she is now filled with goodwill towards, well maybe not all men, but at least to the two of us. So all's well that ends well etc etc.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
...should be mad. I mean, I contacted the usual suspects internally and I contacted the company and... no one helped. So I put the ticket to "pending" and I sort of wished it away. So yeah, she called again. And, honestly, she should be mad. But this time I found who could help and they did and...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m assuming video and killings.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM