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This fundamentally misunderstands what professors *do* in the classroom. Yes, I am imparting info, but students get most of that from readings - what we’re doing in the classroom is helping them build a framework they can use to evaluate the info they are reading—
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This fundamentally misunderstands what professors *do* in the classroom. Yes, I am imparting info, but students get most of that from readings - what we’re doing in the classroom is helping them build a framework they can use to evaluate the info they are reading—
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Political violence like stripping half the country of bodily autonomy and full citizenship and letting us bleed out to secure white patriarchal power or like something else
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Political violence like stripping half the country of bodily autonomy and full citizenship and letting us bleed out to secure white patriarchal power or like something else
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i think it’s cool when someone who wants me dead dies 👍 sorry bitch
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
i think it’s cool when someone who wants me dead dies 👍 sorry bitch
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
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me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
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All I really want in life is peanut butter and jam sandwiches, to have my friends live safe and healthy lives in happiness, to not get heat stroke, and to listen to the Mario Paint music ad infinitum
and to be beloved an adored for who I am without ever twisting myself into someone I am not
and to be beloved an adored for who I am without ever twisting myself into someone I am not
August 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
All I really want in life is peanut butter and jam sandwiches, to have my friends live safe and healthy lives in happiness, to not get heat stroke, and to listen to the Mario Paint music ad infinitum
and to be beloved an adored for who I am without ever twisting myself into someone I am not
and to be beloved an adored for who I am without ever twisting myself into someone I am not
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They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
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Stephen Colbert has always been the very best of us
Stephen Colbert has always been the very best of us
📺 Stephen Colbert recites ‘The Hound of Heaven’ by Francis Thompson to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
YouTube video by That’s Poetry
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July 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Stephen Colbert has always been the very best of us
Stephen Colbert has always been the very best of us
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
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They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
July 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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Are the two people who drove their cars into people yesterday and the person who shot at people in Utah all white men? The person who murdered Democratic politicians yesterday was. Are we allowed to connect the dots? Will be media write exposes asking why white men are so violent? Or no?
June 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Are the two people who drove their cars into people yesterday and the person who shot at people in Utah all white men? The person who murdered Democratic politicians yesterday was. Are we allowed to connect the dots? Will be media write exposes asking why white men are so violent? Or no?
Please do yourself a favor and read this whole thread including the alt text
This evening one of the very kind con organizers took us to the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, which is amazing and you should go and Gustav Vigeland was extraordinarily talented and probably does not deserve the narrative I constructed looking at his work.
But Bluesky! You deserve EVERYTHING!
But Bluesky! You deserve EVERYTHING!
June 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Please do yourself a favor and read this whole thread including the alt text
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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
May 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
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It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
The Hard Calls Dems Must Make to Regain Power
Democrats want to win over more moderate voters. But are they willing to adopt moderate positions?
www.thebulwark.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
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Just read a thing about how there wouldn’t be an American pope until the country was in true political decline. I can’t stop crying, we did it kids.
May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just read a thing about how there wouldn’t be an American pope until the country was in true political decline. I can’t stop crying, we did it kids.
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I’ve never seen this clip before. I’ve also never pondered what she poses. Getting a group of Black women to burn a bus full of white children?
You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.
You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.
May 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’ve never seen this clip before. I’ve also never pondered what she poses. Getting a group of Black women to burn a bus full of white children?
You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.
You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The average American has three friends.
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please we are so tired we cannot do all the things ourselves
I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major
I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major
I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
please we are so tired we cannot do all the things ourselves
I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major
I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR
April 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR
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Fascists abound,
White supremacists humming,
But you were obtuse
And did Nazi it coming.
Happy Authoritarianism Day!
White supremacists humming,
But you were obtuse
And did Nazi it coming.
Happy Authoritarianism Day!
April 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fascists abound,
White supremacists humming,
But you were obtuse
And did Nazi it coming.
Happy Authoritarianism Day!
White supremacists humming,
But you were obtuse
And did Nazi it coming.
Happy Authoritarianism Day!
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Welp, we had people who hated music put in charge of orchestras & people who hated art put in charge of museums & people who hated learning put in charge of universities & people who hated theatre put in charge of theatres; people who hated government running government was only a matter of time.
April 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Welp, we had people who hated music put in charge of orchestras & people who hated art put in charge of museums & people who hated learning put in charge of universities & people who hated theatre put in charge of theatres; people who hated government running government was only a matter of time.
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We're at a place right now where roughly half of the body politic seems to fully believe that snatching people off the street and disappearing them into prison camps is somehow a commensurate payback for having suffered the indignity of having had their vocabularies critiqued.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're at a place right now where roughly half of the body politic seems to fully believe that snatching people off the street and disappearing them into prison camps is somehow a commensurate payback for having suffered the indignity of having had their vocabularies critiqued.
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
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We have stopped in a square. There is a unicorn head on the wall.
GUIDE: Now, what is the unicorn associated with?
ALISIDAIR: Scottish Independence!
ME: Harassing virgins!
KEVIN: Single bisexual women?
MARGUERITE: Million dollar IPO?
GUIDE: …healing. It’s healing. It was a pharmacy.
US: Ohhhhh…
GUIDE: Now, what is the unicorn associated with?
ALISIDAIR: Scottish Independence!
ME: Harassing virgins!
KEVIN: Single bisexual women?
MARGUERITE: Million dollar IPO?
GUIDE: …healing. It’s healing. It was a pharmacy.
US: Ohhhhh…
April 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We have stopped in a square. There is a unicorn head on the wall.
GUIDE: Now, what is the unicorn associated with?
ALISIDAIR: Scottish Independence!
ME: Harassing virgins!
KEVIN: Single bisexual women?
MARGUERITE: Million dollar IPO?
GUIDE: …healing. It’s healing. It was a pharmacy.
US: Ohhhhh…
GUIDE: Now, what is the unicorn associated with?
ALISIDAIR: Scottish Independence!
ME: Harassing virgins!
KEVIN: Single bisexual women?
MARGUERITE: Million dollar IPO?
GUIDE: …healing. It’s healing. It was a pharmacy.
US: Ohhhhh…