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Jake Wright

@bcnjake.bsky.social

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Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told. he/him

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 18d

"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

AI is dehumanizing

I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter.

In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1h

This is literally the thesis of my book.

Flourishing is important. We should make time in the curriculum to think about it.

Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 20d

If it's important, then make room in the curriculum for it. Have a scheduled weekly visit to the school library. Have a story time. Have creative writing. Have drama classes. Have author and theatre visits.

I bet private schools have all these. I bet there's no concern about literacy there.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 2h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1h

ME: I'd like Microsoft to focus more on Xbox, especially adding more indie games to Game Pass.

MSFT: What if your computer was a cross between a shitty predictive text generator and the monkey's paw?

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 7h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely the fuck not.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

All I see is more ways for tech companies to surveil and control

“You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that,” says Mehdi. “With your permission, we want people to be able to share with their AI on Windows what they’re doing and what they’re seeing. The PC should be able to act on your

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

For $50/month, Kai Ryssdal will come to your house and have a seance where they try to contact dead NPR personalities.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, but did you show the video because the rest of your class was loading and you didn't want a static loading screen?

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

Why is it that the Venn Diagram of "People who use phone speakers instead of headphones like a civilized person" is a circle of young people and a completely disconnected circle of senior citizens?

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4h

I don't hate America.

I hate Trump.

I hate Trump *because* I love America. The man is anathema to our values.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Just going to keep pointing out that they're openly asserting that they think any criticism of the president is tantamount to "hating America" which is, itself, an insult to American values.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Barrasso on No Kings: "They have this big 'I Hate America' rally this Saturday in Washington where you have all these far-left activists groups coming to protest the president and the administration."

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 7h

“i was married, but i’m not married anymore. women don’t like the vehicle.”

Captain Crunch standing in front of his dumbass submarine, OceanGate Titan

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

We’re a big Mo Willems house.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 6h

Just picking up in my kids’ room, finding totally normal stuff like Yoshi in a pair of blue jeans…

A stuffed green Yoshi wearing a pair of children’s blue jeans

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 7h

I drive around in my ostentatious penismobile, sipping on a lead-filled protein shake and talking to the text generator that tells me what a special boy I am.

Why does no one like me?

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 7h

Why are humans?

Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 8h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 16h

Alack!

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 16h

The only way out is through.

The only way through is together.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 17h

I learned that vigorous rocking, like holding them close and turning your upper body back and forth, can help calm an infant. I found that it works… at the expense of my lower back.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 20h

Oh they MAD mad.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 22h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 21h

The Vice Presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss…

And that piss is brought to you by Factor.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 21h

They’re so desperate to look like they’re in total lockdown-level control that they’re arresting clarinet players for playing Ghostbusters and a dude in a giraffe costume for singing Elton John. They want violence and fear mockery because they’re so goddamned weak.

Mock harder.

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 22h

“Are you looking for thinly disguised propaganda but with all the glitz, glamour, and readability of one of those fawning New Yorker profiles where Annie Leibovitz takes your cover photo? Have I got good news for you!

Hi! I’m Troy McClure, and you may recognize me from such puff pieces as…”

a cartoon of a man standing in front of a lamp and a picture of a boat

Alt: Troy McClure laughing

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 22h

It’s as though Brooks read Letter from Birmingham Jail and thought that the people who came out smelling like roses were the White Moderates.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 22h

Even in your darkest moments, I see your light, your worth. A true warrior does not give up, least of all on themselves.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.

Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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