shoutout to my paramedics yesterday for being very delightful and the first to give me an early hbd 😂😤🐰💙✨

I’ve asked them for precisely that information at this point due to this. I’ve spoken to other students and TAs who felt Turnitin (and their EULA “agreement”) was coercive but felt they could not opt out because of its use in mandatory courses.

This is before personal issues they experienced!

you are a lifesaver i did not realise there was no threading here omggg 😭

I’m just astonished English department fears of AI plagiarism are so strong they won’t take accommodations like:
- Researching and writing all Creative Works in-person, supervised, in an office or testing centre with no technologies (paper thesaurus!)
- Using Blue Books
- Document Versions

Loss of trust in educators and institutions of learning is more important though.

How do you educate while systemically (and verbally) stereotyping students, policing them with the presumption of “guilt” from the onset at all times? You can’t be vulnerable with a cop, and one who’s wrong a lot.

(For the English department). So, I guess it’s a great day to not be an English major. Most students consent have been compromised for req. courses to graduate however, handing over a “non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable license” that survives termination of the EULA.

Well, this has become a joyous rollercoaster of an adventure! It turns out this *specific* English course was simply the first course to prompt the Turnitin EULA to me, the student: they already use it in the backend at all times!

Surprise, my privacy rights, my rights to my Creative Works…? 🫠🥹