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One thing that's divided the reactions to Jimmy Carter dying is that many people feel like he's the last president who was and wanted to be a Good Guy, and the specifics of his presidency don't feel as important as losing the last national politician who was trying to be a decent human.

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Extremely rare "Forklift Certified Mario" pin, awarded to Nintendo of America warehouse employees in the late 1980s for passing certification to operate Class 1 forklifts.

submitted 60 days ago • 84 comments

Someone actually explain to me how using LLMs can teach one to become 1) a good, rich close reader, 2) a thoughtful, articulate writer, and 3) a careful, systematic critical thinker. You learn these thing specifically by doing those activities themselves. Using AI means exactly not doing them.

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

Facebook is one of the worst creations in human history. you could switch it off tomorrow and everything would improve around the world www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

submitted 71 days ago • 20 comments

Three ghosts visited me while I was sleeping and told me I was a perfect guy

submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

there was a good study out of germany that seemed to show that increasing national immigration generated backlash... but local immigration levels drove increasing acceptance of immigrants the people who are most bothered by immigrants are least affected

submitted 73 days ago • 21 comments

in 1967, senators rfk and joseph clark took a tour of the mississippi delta. they were horrified by the sheer scale of poverty, malnutrition, and neglect. their report caused a national scandal. the scenes haunted kennedy; he considered it the worst thing he'd seen in his life.

submitted 74 days ago • 12 comments

What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

submitted 74 days ago • 114 comments

Always interesting how so many people complain that the Post Office & public transit don't make money, but never demand that fire departments, cops, & the Department of Defense show a profit.

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Me: I got your little nosey, haha. I got your little nosey, Mr. floppy ears. Mr. cutie floppy ears. My dog, perceiving all collective memories of his kind, hunting an elk with his pack, howling at the moon with his mate: ᵗʷᵒ⁻ˡᵉᵍᵍᵉᵈ ᵖᶦᵍ, ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᶜʰᵉᵉˢᵉ ⁿᵒʷ. ᵇᶦᵍ ᵖᶦᵍ, ᵗᶦᵐᵉ ᶠᵒʳ ᶜʰᵉᵉˢᵉ. ᶜʰᵉᵉˢᵉ, ᵗᵃˡˡ ᵖᶦᵍ

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

This is a great question! Like I am opposed to the death penalty even though I firmly believe some people should die for their crimes.

submitted 74 days ago • 26 comments

You might think that someone today recommending a piece of media made in the 90s is the same as someone in the 90s recommending a piece of media made in the 60s, but here’s why it isn’t: i can still be young please let me still be young

submitted 74 days ago • 21 comments

I don’t want any of this. Using AI at universities defeats the entire purpose of the university - to teach students not only content in a discipline but how to do the hard work of thinking and communicating.

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He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town

submitted 76 days ago • 62 comments

Almost all "How to use ChatGPT in the classroom!" advice I see starts with the premise that it doesn't matter if students learn anything or demonstrate any skills in a course.

submitted 78 days ago • 8 comments

When my parents and grandparents were kids, white people used to have public picnics under the dead bodies of Black people swinging in the trees. Ole Miss and other southern colleges keep photos of this in their yearbooks. But THIS is “decivilization?”

submitted 78 days ago • 24 comments

I generally don't believe the "Democrats couldn't have won the 2024 election no matter what" takes, but the fractured media environment and misinformation ecosystem is the strongest argument that it was unwinnable.

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Kenny: "You think Jay Z or..." Chuck: "Probably not a good time right now"

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments

Step 1: Create a text-prediction tool Step 2: Make it so good at predicting text that it can fake writing in ways that are often convincing, and sometimes better than an average person Step 3: Tell people that this will become artificial general intelligence And it works! Somehow, step 3 works.

submitted 79 days ago • 24 comments

I had a fairly long discussion with my intro to American history class about the results of the election, because it lined up almost exactly with my recent politics lecture. It kind of surprised me at the time: one thing they really wanted to talk about was how old everyone in American politics is.

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The bizarre stories to expect from New Jersey politics next year: Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who is running for governor, posted a Spotify Wrapped list filled with Springsteen songs. The state press figured it out it was obviously a fake list, which he then admitted. www.nj.com/entertainmen...

submitted 79 days ago • 19 comments

Elf on a Shelf isn’t even 20 years old. Slam dunk that freak into the nearest toilet. Enough

submitted 79 days ago • 42 comments

I don't think being celebratory or what have you about Mangione's killing of a health insurance CEO is the same thing as saying "this is generally how our problems should be solved," to me it seems more like a gang leader getting knocked off. A "wages of sin" type of event

submitted 80 days ago • 17 comments

they gon’ make Italians people of color again

submitted 81 days ago • 29 comments

You morons, you can't repeat the Gilded Age. That's not how history works--it only goes in one direction. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and make sure no nihilistic young Italians have built homemade weapons with which to assassinate robber barons.

submitted 81 days ago • 58 comments

I continue to make my plea: If we're going to keep talking about AI in academia, I need it to do something besides cheat on out-of-class writing assignments

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