Our students miss getting into the weeds of culture, being confronted with hard & strange things, playing w/ interpretations, disagreeing with one another, and spending lots of time together on assignments that are not stupid. If GenAI takes over campuses, it’s b/c admin & useful idiot profs let it

3) 5-pp essays, in three drafts of increasing length, arguing for an object from the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek as a window onto the era, with research in digitized newspaper from the era. Not easy but everyone went all in and I’ve seen no signs of AI www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

2) Group translation of a short literary prose text (we did Borchert’s “Generation without a Farewell)—if one assigns each group a small amt of text, ppl get together in person and sweat every word. All chat, no GPT. The discussion was so good + a different relationship to both language and agency

Sorry, I don’t see the connection between my point and yours, other than it confirms my diagnosis that whenever a generalizing statement is involved, misogyny is the result

I’m afraid it was apparent from its birth

The little wooden ornaments are sooo good!

Universities across the world from the US to the UK to Australia and Canada, are now "led" by an interchangeable Global Admin class who swap places every couple of years. Their blandness, lack of local roots and commitments, and general third-tier-CEO vibes are their main feature, not a bug. 2/4