NateA
@kurosawafan.bsky.social
Hiking, Movies, Philosophy. I teach philosophy, film studies, and the humanities at Eckerd College.
Maxim for teachers in troubled times: “It is the duty of a good man to teach others the good that you could not work because of the malignity of the times and of fortune, so that when many are capable of it, someone of them more loved by heaven may be able to work it” -Machiavelli, Discourse on Livy
June 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Maxim for teachers in troubled times: “It is the duty of a good man to teach others the good that you could not work because of the malignity of the times and of fortune, so that when many are capable of it, someone of them more loved by heaven may be able to work it” -Machiavelli, Discourse on Livy
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if you teach any subject other than AI and you want students to do their own work, then the solution to the challenge posed by generative AI is neither to embrace generative AI in the classroom nor to spend class time exploring the limits of generative AI in the classroom
it is to teach the subject
it is to teach the subject
May 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
if you teach any subject other than AI and you want students to do their own work, then the solution to the challenge posed by generative AI is neither to embrace generative AI in the classroom nor to spend class time exploring the limits of generative AI in the classroom
it is to teach the subject
it is to teach the subject
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"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation... Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation... Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
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So do search engines. So does social media.
The point being: the problem here is capitalism, not any individual technology. Pretending there is *any* benign tech under capitalism, which won’t be used as a tool of control, is where we go wrong.
The 👏 problem 👏 is 👏 capitalism 👏
The point being: the problem here is capitalism, not any individual technology. Pretending there is *any* benign tech under capitalism, which won’t be used as a tool of control, is where we go wrong.
The 👏 problem 👏 is 👏 capitalism 👏
hey a small request:
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft.
just say no.
May 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So do search engines. So does social media.
The point being: the problem here is capitalism, not any individual technology. Pretending there is *any* benign tech under capitalism, which won’t be used as a tool of control, is where we go wrong.
The 👏 problem 👏 is 👏 capitalism 👏
The point being: the problem here is capitalism, not any individual technology. Pretending there is *any* benign tech under capitalism, which won’t be used as a tool of control, is where we go wrong.
The 👏 problem 👏 is 👏 capitalism 👏
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Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
May 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
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Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests
New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
arstechnica.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
fortune.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
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AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?
May 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?
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And nobody laments the loss of thinking. It's just on me to invent ever more creative ways to trick them into critical thinking to evade using the machine.
May 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
And nobody laments the loss of thinking. It's just on me to invent ever more creative ways to trick them into critical thinking to evade using the machine.
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We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources
DOJ has been investigating a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ABC News has learned.
abcnews.go.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Max Weber on “living in interesting times” — and what those times demand from political leaders. From “The Politician’s Vocation”.
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Max Weber on “living in interesting times” — and what those times demand from political leaders. From “The Politician’s Vocation”.
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“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler
#WritingSky
― Octavia E. Butler
#WritingSky
April 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler
#WritingSky
― Octavia E. Butler
#WritingSky
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode”…)
(“Hard mode”…)
April 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode”…)
(“Hard mode”…)
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No degenerate art
April 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
No degenerate art
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I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife?
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
The $10M steered to Hope Florida by the state was Medicaid money, document shows
A draft agreement of a $67 million settlement between the DeSantis administration and a Medicaid contractor that had overbilled the state sheds new light on how $10 million of that amount was diverted...
www.miamiherald.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife?
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Dune. Frank Herbert.
Dune. Frank Herbert.
April 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Dune. Frank Herbert.
Dune. Frank Herbert.
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This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them.
Openness is safety.
Openness is safety.
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them.
Openness is safety.
Openness is safety.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
April 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
“The desires of free peoples are rarely pernicious to freedom because they arise either from being oppressed or from suspicion of being oppressed” — Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
April 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“The desires of free peoples are rarely pernicious to freedom because they arise either from being oppressed or from suspicion of being oppressed” — Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy