roughdraftjess.bsky.social
Polyglot, parent, partner, fickle reader, recovering academic, Community College professor/devotee, stitcher, quilter, semi-colon enthusiast; easily amused. She/her
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Look at the shell game where he sets up freedom vs. democracy, then equates democracy with capitalism, then presents freedom as the threat. Gross.
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I'm traveling to London next month and have really enjoyed your occasional reminders that Liberty is a place I can actually go and browse! This dress is adorable
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Jury selection on this one's gonna be wild.
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Which, like the original, works metaphorically and literally
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I'm so sorry you're going through this. So hard to raise these kids when we no longer know what future we're aiming them toward, feeling like we've never had to weild the tools they'll need. But you won't have to *tell* him being a good man matters. He'll see it in your example. He'll feel it.
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Lotta people out here doing free advertising for The Nothing from the Neverending Story. Everything is terrible enough without us running around pooping our nihilism and anxiety on one another.
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So, "I won't encourage people to take this simple step because it alone won't solve the massive issues that keep us both up at night, but I will take the time to insinuate you're naive for trying." Do I have that right? What is the point of a comment like this?
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This is so helpful! I wondered if that's how your call would play out; glad to see I'm not the only one. If someone found this action intimidating, I'm betting you just made it feel more approachable. BRB I have some phone calls to make
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I love this quality in her writing. As a reader, I feel invited on an adventure with her rather than led on a guided tour
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Unfortunately af
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I was just thinking about this this morning! I miss a good leisurely meander through her discount racks but alas, it had to be
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In fact, here's my ranking of Mother's Day wishes, from least to most awkward:
My children (0% awkward)
My spouse (8%)
My parents (9%)
Friends who are also parents (12%)
Strangers when my kids are present (15%)
Friends who are not parents (35%)
Colleagues (60%)
Strangers when I'm alone (1000%)
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We miss you, too!
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Aaah, I love this print so much! I got to try lino for the first time today (I had always wanted to) and can already tell it's gonna be addictive. I'm glad this hobby follows you into your post-cancer life!
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Can we vote for the clown in question? Doesn't matter, still following
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Except that the someone you're going to is occasionally wildly inept, often untrustworthy, and too servile and sycophantic to point out flaws in your premise, research methods or query
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6. This tech is constantly shoved down educators' throats. "It's the future; just embrace it." As long as the deep deficit of trust between schools and the public, between students and professors, between students and their own capacities persists, it's a 'nah' from me
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5. Anxiety, both diagnosed and just kind of diffuse, given [gestures wildly], is ripping through our young people, leaving them feeling disempowered and unmoored. College done right asks them to embrace a high threshold of uncertainty. AI dangles an off-ramp
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4. Today's college students have grown up in an education system that rewards correct answers. They don't trust themselves to make mistakes, and they don't trust that their instructors mean it when we say it's okay to make mistakes and take risks. AI feels safe
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3. LLMs continue to over-promise and underdeliver, and their use routinely gets caught and reframed in college. I've had students drop my class rather than have a conversation with me about changing their relationship to AI when I refuse to grade their assignments written with ChatGPT.
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2. College is too damn expensive, and too few young people believe knowledge has intrinsic worth. As long as those things are true in tandem, people will treat college as a means to an end, and be content to get less value out of it than it offers. This didn't start with ChatGPT.
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I hope it will encourage you to know that my community college Spanish students rejected AI resoundingly this semester, and even yelled at me the one time *I* used it in a pinch
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But you figured it out and you did it! Congratulations, and cheers to your future.
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I love this!
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Exactly, that ship has sailed and sunk
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I feel safe speaking for many when I say we will miss you, but will not blame you. Hopefully, Canada et al boycotting us will help hasten our awakening from this fever dream regime
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I mean yes, absolutely, but also: complacency about our own and others' local elections and the down-ballot offices that powerfully impact how we experience the U.S. got us here. Turns out democracy required a baseline of drudgery and maintenance all along, so now we have some catching up to do
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(Also, since I'm from the U.S. I feel it's incumbent upon me to explain that I condone neither dystopias nor homicide, as a rule)
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Ignorant but sincere question from across the pond: is it a substantial hardship for people in the UK to dispose of their trash without illegally dumping it? Bc I can think of several defensible reasons to commit homicide but struggle to think of any for the casual disregard represented by littering
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Is it infrastructure week again already?
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This is excellent advice!
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A girl can dream, anyway. I just hope we collectively realize how mediocre this technology is in time to 86 it, lest a. we start to forget how great it is when people know and learn stuff, or b. next-gen AI gets less obviously disappointing and more seductive