AI “art” is an insult to life itself. i also think it’s an insult to the machine. the first stirrings of machine art would not be recognisable to us as art. we might not see it at all. who’s to say what computers get up to when they talk to each other? not my business!

My life would be over if I got a 3d printer

Have students do it then put it in this meme

Out of curiosity: do you think the avoidance is idealistic ("teaching has an ideal form that will weather out or transcend any specific working conditions") or very explicitly tied to a (dated) concept of what those conditions are ("this was what the industry was 30 years ago")? Both?

Misread this as "I love foreign goods and must go after them" & briefly thought this was some timely selection of tariff related biblical allegory 10/10 would misread again

what I'm saying is that they could put some hobbits in there and I reckon a lot of folks would be down with that

reading Austen I have to fight reading it pleasurably as something akin to speculative fiction - enjoying its surface, its complex "lore" (about proprieties), letting it flatten culture & history into a set of markers and generic tropes/opportunities I can consume like the little romcom piggy I am