I know nobody cares right now because of the election but I need to share that I let my students use absolutely any AI tools during the midterm and they made the exact same mistakes as students from several years ago when there was no AI.
I observed zero AI effect.
This year’s grades are actually about 7-8% lower than in 2021 in an identical assignment with no AI.
If you are nervous about the impact of AI on your teaching in the Humanities, maybe let students use it freely and then you’ll feel better when you see it changes nothing.
I have no idea how it works in the sciences, sorry.
I’m so sad for these people. So deeply sorry. They are telling themselves these absolute fairytales about winning the black vote, getting a landslide in New York, turning Cali red. And it’s all absolute lunacy. Instead of concentrating on what’s actually winnable, they convince themselves of these insane fantasies and then can’t comprehend when reality turns out to be different.
This is why I just can’t bring myself to vote for him. This. Unpatriotic, inane drivel that repeats what our worst enemies try to convince themselves of.
This is an amazing country. The best place to live in the world. And it has problems. It’s not heaven on Earth. Heaven on Earth is not going to happen. But our problems are pinpricks compared to what other countries are experiencing. I don’t even mean really failed nations like in Africa or, increasingly, Mexico. I mean Canada, UK, rich developed countries that are doing worse than we are.
If we are a failure, then who isn’t? I want to hear the names of those much more successful countries.
Yes, Kamala is just as bad with her libels about how we are “structurally racist” and all that crap.
Can we get a leader who admires this country and doesn’t call it names every two seconds? Is that too much to ask?
The proportion of NSF grants prioritizing non-scientific attributes of grant proposals (related to DEI) has increased from <1% before the Biden admin started focusing on it to more than a quarter (27%) by early this year. pic.twitter.com/ggUQmnIbny
This is true. I was officially told that we must reorient our research towards the importance of the BLM in Hispanic countries to get funding. When I said that BLM is a US fad with no relevance to anybody else, this was greeted with shock. “So you don’t want to get funded?” I was asked.
Please take a moment to ponder this. The federal government prioritizes funding to people who manufacture evidence that American ideological hangups are shared by the rest of the world. People are desperate for funding. The only research that counts for anything is often the research that receives external funding. Nobody cares that I have publications coming out the wazoo in prestigious peer-reviewed journals around the world because I get zero external (meaning, outside the university) funding. I don’t get tempted but many people will. Think about the consequences of that. A quarter of all funding is an enormous figure. We are destroying our country’s scholarly advantage by doing this.
Hey. Hi. The tests that Trump sent to Putin weren’t just your basic swabs that you have in your home bathroom, they were molecular point-of-care test machines that hospitals desperately needed to rapidly detect infections in a critical time.
Everybody’s piling on this dude but he’s only observing a physiological reality. Men don’t automatically bond with their babies like women do because men don’t carry them inside their bodies. Women have a 40-week advantage to get to know their babies, build a relationship with them, adapt to their life cycles. Men don’t have that. They often don’t have anything like the powerful release of hormones that women experience when giving birth. Every woman who has given birth knows what it feels like. It’s a transformational experience.
After a baby is born, women derive an enormous amount of tactile contact from their relationship with the baby. The father, in the meantime, has his tactile needs that used to be satisfied by his wife largely unmet. What would we have him do? Breastfeed? Quit his job and cuddle the baby all day? Some people are more tactile than others. What if a dude is very tactile and suddenly his only source of tactile comfort has gone away? What is he supposed to do?
The guy who posted the question was called every name in the book but he was only saying what many people know. The male and the female experience of early parenthood is completely different. We are doing ourselves no favors by pretending that it isn’t happening.
If you are so angry, maybe you need the facts? Most all of US aid to Ukraine is spent in the US. The biggest militayr aid part is "back-filling' – which is really buying new and improved stuff using an acocunting offset for the value of the twenty-year old stuff we donate.
It’s impossible to explain how the economy works to overheated prattlers like this woman. They are used and abused by every slick operator in sight and they get angrier and angrier because the world is too complicated for their intellectual capabilities.
This is the great flaw of democracy. The masses need to be reassured and made to feel important. It’s like driving a car in very bad traffic with a wailing toddler in the back seat.
I don’t know, at least neoliberalism teaches the fans of this screamy “Tony” a lesson about what they should concentrate their attention on. Maybe neoliberalism is better and we should just accept it.
I saw this post because it mentions Ukraine but the actual issue is not the point. My social media in 2020 were filled by identical shouty Tonys who were convinced they would die on the spot if everybody didn’t remain locked down indefinitely. These are all manifestations of the same phenomenon. The world is complicated, and people freak out because they don’t have the intelligence to process it. Before, they had God and knew they didn’t need to understand everything. But now they have appointed themselves God, and the responsibility is overwhelming them.
Here’s more proof on a completely different topic:
Since there is no God, the only explanation is that the hurricane must have been caused by people’s actions. Be it global warming or evil globalists changing weather, it doesn’t matter.
Democracy without God means these Taras and Tonys get to keep us all hostage to their anxiety. So maybe it is doomed since we’ve ditched one of its main pillars of support.
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