dalegrauman.bsky.social
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The school I work at has a testing center, where students can take tests, type responses with a keyboard, and access approved aids. But the computers are locked down so that they can't do anything else. It's WAY past time that we put tech like that into each classroom for day-to-day use.
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@jacobtlevy.bsky.social , would you elaborate a bit on what you are doing? Are you talking about essay tests once or twice a semester, or are you talking about written daily exercises?
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Yeah, skimmed. Did I miss it? What page is it on?
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I mean, I have skimmed it. Does it say something that I missed?
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I don't think this document takes a stand on how/whether AI reliance affects cognition?
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FWIW, I have done the coursework for a PhD writing studies, and I also find the argument unconvincing. There's no consensus on the effects of AI on cognition in our field. Takes range from "Chatbots are great! Teach all your students to use them!" to "Chatbots are undermining everything I live for."
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If you like his response, why would you undermine his credibility by pointing out the shows he has not been a contestant on?
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And here I am, an idiot, not even knowing the difference between "good healthcare" and "public health interventions in the broadest sense."
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He's T-ing up some more awful policy: bsky.app/profile/kenk...
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*Sofia
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Priscilla and Marie Antoinette are both very good. Sophia Coppola can find a story and tell it.
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Account already suspended.
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I thought The Witch was good but am beginning to suspect it was only good on accident.
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But I also like The Tree of Life 🤷♂️
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I think Badlands is the best directorial debut out there.
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Solaris, maybe?
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A friend of mine from college was talking about feeling socially isolated just because he was running a small business. Couldn't tell if people liked him or were just laughing at his jokes because he was the boss.
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My grandpa (rural guy born in 1915) was sexist and very racist, but he also spent a lot of time with his family, had a bunch of friends, and never whined about anything. These clowns are only reproducing the bad qualities of those old-timey "real" men!
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The one that really gets me is long-form YouTube videos.
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On the one hand, yes they are deluded. On the other, it would be extremely good if like 5% more Republicans were deluded in exactly the same way.
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Thanks
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I'm not aware of this one, but am interested. Please link!
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Is there data on outright denial winding down? Anecdotally, I'm not sure denial has gone anywhere, at least among the right wingers I know well (who mostly don't have college degrees). They seem pretty denialist? I could be wrong, though.
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Also worth mentioning: News feeds and websites are universally difficult to browse. It's easy to find something to read, but hard to figure out if you missed something you care about. It's SO much easier to read a daily digest that's organized by topic, like a paper or eEdition.
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I think the algorithm picks up when you pause on something. These nonsense memes make you pause because they are difficult to parse. I think you then get more and more of them. Hadn't occured to me that it's probably an AI thing.
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What are they?
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If the Internet has taught us anything, it's that the following template is the only way to persuade anybody of anything: "BREAKING: CIA leaks SECRET TRUTH about IVERMECTIN that JACKWADS don't want you to know."
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"Normal" in America has been "whatever boomers like" for my entire life, and I am no longer young. Why did we get stuck here?
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*badgers
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Michael Crichton wrote a novel about a manager (woman) who bagders a star employee (man) for sex and then falsely accuses him of sexual harassment when he bravely refuses to put out.
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He's just Skip Bayless for politics instead of sports.
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Precisely once, I tried to listen to the NYT podcast where columnists talk about issues, and it was just Douthat saying something trolly and three others responding in exasperation, over and over and over. And that's his whole career.
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And as it so often goes, it's not particularly difficult to take a side! On the one hand, you have all the facts and evidence it is possible to obtain pointing toward a general consensus. On the other, a couple kooks and their goalpost-shifting, unfalsifiable speculation.
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Also possible that he knows the truth and yet chooses to say things that are not true.
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Did all these people go to a screening of "There Will Be Blood" and conclude that Daniel Plainview was the good guy?
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Why would he . . . I mean, what's his deal?
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I mean, obviously we should panic less to preserve our mental health, but then how do we compete in the attention economy with the kooks who are constantly panicking?
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Worth remembering that Mark Zuckerberg, who became a CEO at like 20 and has never spent a second of his life in a normal workplace, has no idea what a workplace is like.
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Chris thinks that his show did a good job of not signalling constant panic during Trump 1.0, that you can't keep panic dial at 10 all the time. But conservatives dominate the attention-o-sphere by pinning the panic dial at 10 all the time. So which: Should normies panic less, or more?
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If you turn off cable news, log out of social media l, and read the paper each morning instead, you'll be better informed than almost everybody you know. Or almost everybody I know, anyway.
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Would you link to sources for the "it used to but now doesn't" part?
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I agree! But with many tedious qualifications.
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Eggs and toast at home is ≤ $1, though, and these people are arguing, I think, that the same food costs more to cook.
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And it's 1.
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The explanations for people saying otherwise is that they
1) Have not really done the math
2) Throw away a ton of food when they cook at home.
3) Work 16-hour days and, having no spare time, must factor in the lost productivity from that time spent cooking.