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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

This really does seem to be the bet they're making, and not just financially, but with our environment, society, etc...When it bursts we'll see all kinds of people saying in hindsight it was madness, but we can also say this with foresight!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 17h

The generous reading is they believe there is no limit to the money worth dumping into any project that could lead to a future AGI, because the AGI will be essentially invaluable. But this is the equivalent of building the world's largest economy around the expectation that the rapture is imminent

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

We know that LLMs struggle with math. Apparently the people involved in delivering the data centers that power LLMs do too. There's no way that investments will pay off. The bubble of bubbles. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17h

We know that LLMs struggle with math. Apparently the people involved in delivering the data centers that power LLMs do too. There's no way that investments will pay off. The bubble of bubbles. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 18h

Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18h

FREDDIE: I got Geese.

EDDIE: Goose?

FREDDIE: No, Geese.

EDDIE: More than one?

FREDDIE: It’s just the one. Geese.

EDDIE: I’m saying. Geese is more than Goose.

FREDDIE: I’m glad you think so. I tried for Goose, too, but no luck.

Freddie and Eddie, the Nation’s Leading Temu Abbott and Costello, in “Dat Bird!”

“Goose is a jam band. Geese is indie rock. They both have new albums. They’re also both on tour. Confused? We can help.” — New York Times - - -FRED...

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Ally Boo-art 👻 @allystewart.bsky.social · 19h

I ask my students not to use AI because it means they are not fully engaging with their own learning. If they do, it’s a betrayal of my trust.

I don’t want to use AI to grade student work because it means that I am not fully engaging with their learning. If I do, it’s a betrayal of their trust

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Beck is a weird cat. I think he's sincere in his beliefs, but he has that radio host vibe always working in the background, so the whiff of grift is ever present.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like an odd thing to say given that Charlie Kirk had already supplanted and surpassed Beck as an influence on the right and republican politics. It's like some washed up pop star declaring they're going to get Taylor Swift to replace them.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Sign me up for whatever group wants to talk through these problems, particularly if we can use articles like this to help our thinking.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, exactly. It's managerialism imposed on education. Not a new trend by any stretch, but a kind of acceleration of those trends with the potential to get to a very bad endpoint.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's about fucking. We already approve of making babies without fucking (IVF). But the downstream effects of creating biological copies of existing people are profound and thankfully society recognized that those downstream effects aren't worth the scientific accomplishment.

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Keegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s up! @biblioracle.bsky.social asked me to contribute a guest column to Inside Higher Education on alternative grading and studying it’s efficacy.

How Will We Know Alternative Grading Reduces Harm?

A guest post from University of Illinois at Chicago lecturer Keegan Lannon on wrestling with alternative grading.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

People have to take charge of their own agency to address these questions. I also was once bored with reading the same stuff so I started figuring out how I could change my approach so I wouldn't have to read the same stuff! This is the job!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

It's truly infuriating. That institutions have not only invited this stuff in, but are pushing it on faculty and students is a tragedy and that the people doing the pushing don't see it that way is really just a sign of a deep sickness.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I try not to be needlessly confrontational or cruel, but if someone tells me they're outsourcing the work of grading student writing to AI, I tell them they should either stop or quit their job because they shouldn't be doing it. It's malpractice and not good for their own long term happiness either

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 1d

AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Not only will AI grading be the end of teaching because of the labor dynamics Marc covers, but it kicks off a process of what I call "self-alienation" where the teachers gradually remove themselves from the essential human experiences of their own work.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I've been traveling doing many talks to schools and universities about the teaching writing at this time and I have a few hard lines I draw, AI grading is the biggest one. We just cannot give ourselves over to this. It will be a disaster. It will be the end of teaching.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Mark is open to some of the experiments being done where AI feedback is integrated into a process where the product is ultimately assessed by a human, but cards on the table, I reject this as well. LLMs don't read. Sending students to it for feedback, to me, signals the wrong things about writing.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 5d

The Vanderbilt chapter of @aaup.org has issued a statement condemning President Trump's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal assault on civil rights, academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional autonomy.

vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...

Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…

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