“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...

The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h ago

don’t forget the inverse secondary, inequality the other way: freedom to learn with your human brain from human teachers who professionally decide on curricular applications of model use, a freedom for only the students at one kind of institution

Also, THIS THIS THIS from the same @chanda.blacksky.app post: "You might feel like an artist because you typed a prompt and you got a picture on the other end. But you're not. You're someone who refuses to pay for skilled labor but feels entitled to its work product anyway."

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

My hot take is that the original sin that led us to chatbots was texting. We became accustomed to a text box on a phone being a stand in for our friends. Then Twitter accelerated this, where a text box was all of society. So people were conditioned to let chatbots deep into their minds and souls

tip: write flatteringly about the first living scholar you cite since they’re probably going to be asked to serve as reader number one

The problem with writing in scrivener is I never know my page count until I compile so now I've accidentally written a 10 page paper for a 10 minute roundtable contribution and I have to delete half of it???? (Or convince the rest of the panel we should all go long and not let the audience talk lol)

the American conservative project of making children more culpable for things than adults is such a perverse way of living life that anyone who ascribes to it needs to be ostracised from civil society

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀@lcvonhessen.bsky.social · last wk.

So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.

There are not many things that 97% of Americans have in common. High school English is one of them.

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

[summoning the collected wisdom of the previous Avatars] "Don't stab yourself trying to carve large culinary vegetables this week."

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Are transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen Webberley

The data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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But also: It is amazing that in less than four years we've gone from hearing sweeping claims about how "ChatGPT will solve climate change" to "my app can save you from having to get to know your family"

Ideal brain: no thoughts, just hollow w/ little golden pieces of Chex cereal floating around

Im not a parent, but I imagine that being asked to produce three bullet points about what makes your child special is in fact, not, a "hard problem." This does not require engineering. This does not require an AI assistant. This does not even require an assistant. Surely.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 3d ago

cool, cool

Nice bsky.app/profile/tani...

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Just learned potatoes have benzodiazepines in them and suddenly a lot of things make sense

I said no more metaphors!!!

Jenét Morrow@jenetallday.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

As @biblioracle.bsky.social says, "Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." We need to talk about why four years in, the conversations that get the most oxygen are about what LLMs can do and not about why we would want them to.

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d ago

LLMs aren’t “peers” so it makes no sense for them to do peer review. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Yes, it challenged me with problems like fording the river vs paying for a ferry, dysentery, and having to leave behind 90% of the buffalo I'd shot. It helped me learn important lessons like "your life will be full of problems you do not understand and can't solve."

Archangel Softworks - Highway Noir out now!@archangelsoftworks.co.uk · 5d ago

Americans who went to school in the 90s: did you play Oregon Trail? Did EVERYONE play Oregon Trail? I keep seeing it come up and wonder if it was truly that prevalent

triple check your sources and look alive out there, the next couple weeks are gonna be stupid enough on their own without any help from us 

I genuinely don't think that human civilization is compatible with "100 dudes should own everything, make nothing, but get infinitely increasing money forever"

This piece by student journalist Naishu Vempali made me pump my fist in solidarity. I hope when I’m back teaching at UMass next year they take a class with me, where they can expect nothing but top quality human-grade feedback, interaction, and attention. dailycollegian.com/2026/10/chat...

ChatGPT is my new TA, and I’m scared

“It feels as though everyone in charge of our education has already accepted that, at the pace we’re moving, we’re all going to have to use AI at some point in our careers. By tasking us with AI assig...

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no kings includes draftkings

anybody else just like... tired

Being an artist in these times were AI is everywhere feels like having magic powers. You have the power to create something that comes from your soul and is not generated. That's amazing and I am glad I can create and animate my ideas, I hope artists will keep creating in those dark times.

“Americans over 60 now spend more than half their leisure hours in front of screens.”

The 75-Year-Old Screenagers

Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

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Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

Consistently, if I’m in a public space and hear someone watching videos on their phone at full volume without headphones, I will turn and see that the offender is at least 60 years old.

Teachers: our students are being robbed of their own minds by AI and testing Education leaders: OK here is some AI and testing

All of these services are awful but what really strikes me here is how it’s explicitly positioning itself to replace the social aspects of learning. Students aren’t “alone,” without this garbage: they have (or should have) professors, classmates, other humans to learn from and with!

Yvonne Seale@yvonneseale.bsky.social · last wk.

Have faculty elsewhere had their admin introduce CircleIn (an AI "tutoring" app that is integrated into LMSs) & if so are your students receiving emails like this? Despite being told that we can opt our courses out of CI, we've reason to doubt that—plus this email directly undermines us as teachers.