Worth showing this to anyone who quote-tweets evil/stupid people to show they're evil/stupid. They're effectively paying them a salary. Also! Don't get trapped into assuming what they say is supposed to make sense. It's serious as in dangerous; it's not serious as in sincere.

The Cretan Liar paradox, 2024 edition.

So Chicago Public Schools has a guide for teachers urging them to use AI, apparently drafted with some help from AI for Education. Is there magic thinking a-plenty in it? Reader, don't you already know? Let's count the ways...

🧵1/ Thought I'd zoom in on the data from the Southport riots, especially given the recent arrest of a man in Pakistan - which has prompted some commentators & news outlets to use it as an opportunity to target people of colour once again. Let's look at what happened

Okay, who leaked the plan?

My #HateWotHate challenge to Boris+allies Identify your top 3 cases where prosecuted & sent to prison re online content during 2024 riots that > Was not incitement, nor stirring up hatred > Should be lawful > Would not have been charged under last govt x.com/sundersays/sta…

Rowling: [snapping fingers] I'M BACK! Rowling: and i won't play nice! Julie Bindel, Helen Joyce, Alison Bailey: [in unison] she's back! Rowling: I'M BACK! Rowling: against my lawyer's advice!

Applying reception theory to Generative AI, and vice versa. thesphinxblog.com/2024/08/25/s...

In which I attempt to respond proactively to the rise of GenAI rather than simply grumbling about it. timeshighereducation.com/campus/three-w…

I know I'm late to the discourse, but I wrote a blog post explaining what the problems are with El*n M*sk's advice about the 'Iliad' for those who are genuinely interested. #Iliad #Homer #ClassicsTwitter talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/08/28/wha…

My thoughts on this have not changed since I wrote this piece for The Walrus last March. The point of writing assignments is not to produce more writing in the world, it is to teach students how to think and how to express themselves. thewalrus.ca/chatgpt-writin…

Candidate for most unspeakably ghastly bit of Denglish: ‘Implantologie’.

For the first time since its foundation in 1872, the current issue of the journal _Romania_ has issued a statement about plagiarism in its pages. Please re-Tweet and share widely. #philology #medievalFrench #AngloNorman #plagiarism #CarlaRossi

It fascinates me that pretty much every time someone discusses the dominant undergraduate model in the UK, they assume there’s nascent demand for shorter degrees. Every actual student I speak to that’s had to cope with a setback, decided to undertake voluntary or paid work etc

#PLOSONE: Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme Our new study, co-led with Mark Altaweel and jessica witte uses dictionary-based, machine learning and manual coding methods to assess emotion dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

The third of my short pieces this summer on how to respond to GenAI in humanities at university level - this one written for colleagues in classical studies. cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2024/09/…

Blair is speaking, as he increasingly does, irresponsibly & without understanding. Grenfell was not the result of 'mistakes', but fraud by manufacturers, complicity by testing bodies, dereliction of safety duty by architects & construction companies, and inaction by politicians.

I’m “venerable” now?!?

This is the new version of those articles about 'how I bought my first home at 23' admitting in the eighth paragraph that their parents gave them money, a free room or both:

A quick follow-up to an interesting response to my latest GenAI piece from Robert Low. thesphinxblog.com/2024/09/06/que…