Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦
@sschwinghamer.bsky.social
Inadequate cat servant. Husband. Dad. Historian of #CdnImm. Public & oral history. Museums. Bikes. PhD candidate (Hist) @ Carleton. Kjipuktuk / Hfx.
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Just pull the trigger on the Gripen already!
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just pull the trigger on the Gripen already!
Tested.
Why Ford didn't just build the car with these?!
So much better than stock. Nice, bright, even lights with no hot spots, no bulb shadow.
The stock cutoff is nice and crisp, meaning no blinding oncoming drivers.
Now we'll see how cooling goes for these inside the stock assembly...
Why Ford didn't just build the car with these?!
So much better than stock. Nice, bright, even lights with no hot spots, no bulb shadow.
The stock cutoff is nice and crisp, meaning no blinding oncoming drivers.
Now we'll see how cooling goes for these inside the stock assembly...
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Tested.
Why Ford didn't just build the car with these?!
So much better than stock. Nice, bright, even lights with no hot spots, no bulb shadow.
The stock cutoff is nice and crisp, meaning no blinding oncoming drivers.
Now we'll see how cooling goes for these inside the stock assembly...
Why Ford didn't just build the car with these?!
So much better than stock. Nice, bright, even lights with no hot spots, no bulb shadow.
The stock cutoff is nice and crisp, meaning no blinding oncoming drivers.
Now we'll see how cooling goes for these inside the stock assembly...
I'm not reading all that
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'm not reading all that
Invariably, the answer is "badly."
AI is not a legitimate threat to university education.
The false perception of AI promise and capability, however, is a threat to university education.
Engaging with AI as a human intellectual includes rejecting many current LLMs for good and sound reasons.
AI is not a legitimate threat to university education.
The false perception of AI promise and capability, however, is a threat to university education.
Engaging with AI as a human intellectual includes rejecting many current LLMs for good and sound reasons.
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Invariably, the answer is "badly."
AI is not a legitimate threat to university education.
The false perception of AI promise and capability, however, is a threat to university education.
Engaging with AI as a human intellectual includes rejecting many current LLMs for good and sound reasons.
AI is not a legitimate threat to university education.
The false perception of AI promise and capability, however, is a threat to university education.
Engaging with AI as a human intellectual includes rejecting many current LLMs for good and sound reasons.
"Its monopoly on legitimacy is eroding – and so are excuses for not responding."
Well.
Go ahead. Choose your area of expertise. Choose literature and sources you really know well. Things you pored over again and again.
See how AI does when you ask it to engage in that field.
Well.
Go ahead. Choose your area of expertise. Choose literature and sources you really know well. Things you pored over again and again.
See how AI does when you ask it to engage in that field.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Its monopoly on legitimacy is eroding – and so are excuses for not responding."
Well.
Go ahead. Choose your area of expertise. Choose literature and sources you really know well. Things you pored over again and again.
See how AI does when you ask it to engage in that field.
Well.
Go ahead. Choose your area of expertise. Choose literature and sources you really know well. Things you pored over again and again.
See how AI does when you ask it to engage in that field.
... have any obligation to mindlessly endorse and promote nuclear proliferation or the use of those weapons.
Also, part of the "research driving our understanding of AI" is precisely the research that urges deep ethical reflection on its use.
Understanding =/= acceptance
Also, part of the "research driving our understanding of AI" is precisely the research that urges deep ethical reflection on its use.
Understanding =/= acceptance
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
... have any obligation to mindlessly endorse and promote nuclear proliferation or the use of those weapons.
Also, part of the "research driving our understanding of AI" is precisely the research that urges deep ethical reflection on its use.
Understanding =/= acceptance
Also, part of the "research driving our understanding of AI" is precisely the research that urges deep ethical reflection on its use.
Understanding =/= acceptance
"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
No, it isn't. University communities can walk AND chew gum. So, for instance, if fundamental research enables nuclear weapons, the university community trait doesn't...
No, it isn't. University communities can walk AND chew gum. So, for instance, if fundamental research enables nuclear weapons, the university community trait doesn't...
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
No, it isn't. University communities can walk AND chew gum. So, for instance, if fundamental research enables nuclear weapons, the university community trait doesn't...
No, it isn't. University communities can walk AND chew gum. So, for instance, if fundamental research enables nuclear weapons, the university community trait doesn't...
"...a disregard for the realities of technological change is almost always obfuscated by appeals to academic integrity and practice."
Insisting on critical thinking and sound methods from students at every level is not the most efficient model for draining university customers' bank accounts. True.
Insisting on critical thinking and sound methods from students at every level is not the most efficient model for draining university customers' bank accounts. True.
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"...a disregard for the realities of technological change is almost always obfuscated by appeals to academic integrity and practice."
Insisting on critical thinking and sound methods from students at every level is not the most efficient model for draining university customers' bank accounts. True.
Insisting on critical thinking and sound methods from students at every level is not the most efficient model for draining university customers' bank accounts. True.
"...[i]n research, AI has begun to revolutionise the literature review process..."
Oh yes, using HAL9000 Coles notes, but compiled statistically without any actual subject expertise or understanding, will definitely offer a change to your literature review.
change =/= improvement
Oh yes, using HAL9000 Coles notes, but compiled statistically without any actual subject expertise or understanding, will definitely offer a change to your literature review.
change =/= improvement
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"...[i]n research, AI has begun to revolutionise the literature review process..."
Oh yes, using HAL9000 Coles notes, but compiled statistically without any actual subject expertise or understanding, will definitely offer a change to your literature review.
change =/= improvement
Oh yes, using HAL9000 Coles notes, but compiled statistically without any actual subject expertise or understanding, will definitely offer a change to your literature review.
change =/= improvement
"Even sectors seemingly immune to automation, such as legal and consulting services – characterised by deep client relationships based on trust and professional judgment – are deploying AI to enhance precision, efficiency and insights."
Ah yes, AI doing famously well at the legalling.
Ah yes, AI doing famously well at the legalling.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Even sectors seemingly immune to automation, such as legal and consulting services – characterised by deep client relationships based on trust and professional judgment – are deploying AI to enhance precision, efficiency and insights."
Ah yes, AI doing famously well at the legalling.
Ah yes, AI doing famously well at the legalling.
"...but such advances represent only incremental adjustments..."
In many areas of human endeavour, incremental change is the most desirable and sustainable mode.
SMASH BIG SHINY CHANGE GOOD is the slogan of a person who isn't actually accountable for a massive, complex system
In many areas of human endeavour, incremental change is the most desirable and sustainable mode.
SMASH BIG SHINY CHANGE GOOD is the slogan of a person who isn't actually accountable for a massive, complex system
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"...but such advances represent only incremental adjustments..."
In many areas of human endeavour, incremental change is the most desirable and sustainable mode.
SMASH BIG SHINY CHANGE GOOD is the slogan of a person who isn't actually accountable for a massive, complex system
In many areas of human endeavour, incremental change is the most desirable and sustainable mode.
SMASH BIG SHINY CHANGE GOOD is the slogan of a person who isn't actually accountable for a massive, complex system
"...had the higher education sector proven itself more capable of adopting technologies to more effectively deliver its present logics, this need might be less obvious..."
The need isn't obvious precisely because the most important learning at a university can not be mediated by technology.
The need isn't obvious precisely because the most important learning at a university can not be mediated by technology.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"...had the higher education sector proven itself more capable of adopting technologies to more effectively deliver its present logics, this need might be less obvious..."
The need isn't obvious precisely because the most important learning at a university can not be mediated by technology.
The need isn't obvious precisely because the most important learning at a university can not be mediated by technology.