This level of literary intimacy between the members of boygenius is the platonic ideal that I aspire to in all of my friendships

When someone says hey how’s the next book going

A reviewer rejected my paper, and instead suggested me to familiarize myself with the following readings. I could not find them anywhere. After a control in GPT-2, my fears where confirmed. Those sources where 99% fake...generated by AI. lnkd.in/ejEbk5hj

Doug Ford, 2023: don’t vote for mayoral candidates who voted to “defund” the police by cutting 10% from their budget. Rob Ford, 2011: the police must cut their budget by 10%. thestar.com/news/gta/2023/…

This paper is worth reading for anyone with an interest in the potential of the AI systems currently available.

Strongest possible advice to early grad students: you need outside hobbies or projects that are meaningful to you. It is dangerous for your only source of value, identity, and friendship to be academia. You absolutely have to find something else to invest in, it’s just not safe

Just a friendly reminder 🧡

Trying to finalize my Videogames as Literature syllabus and it's incredibly frustrating how many games are not available to the standard set of contemporary devices from which I can reasonably expect a student to have at least one of them.

I can scarcely imagine what utter depravity people are teaching LLMs about the nature of humanity

I think it’s time to get off Twitter. The site is being flooded with right wing trollery, and it’s increasingly hard to access good content. I’m going to leave my account up so people can get in touch with me when needed, but I will not use it going forward.

The prophecy of Denis Villeneuve’s ENEMY has come to pass

The university I work at, Algoma, has been in the news and (therefore social media) lately because of a student protest, but I had to laugh at this comment:

Every nerd in Toronto rn

Just read a student's evaluation of my course they completed with ChatGPT. It's a complete set of nonsequiturs. I'm honestly speechless.