Spencer Bagley
@sbagley.bsky.social
Math professor, inveterate shitposter, pride is all year round
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The South Korean government spent most of a billion dollars on an AI textbook program that failed immediately, by which I mean, the teachers' union sued the government about it after less than four months.
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AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The South Korean government spent most of a billion dollars on an AI textbook program that failed immediately, by which I mean, the teachers' union sued the government about it after less than four months.
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
Happy turkey congee day to all who celebrate
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Happy turkey congee day to all who celebrate
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I do a ten-minute speech at the start of the semester on why using AI is bad, and affirming that I will catch them if they do, and vowing to flunk them for a first offense, and promising that cheating and giving up are the only ways to fail my course, and begging them not do do either.
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I do a ten-minute speech at the start of the semester on why using AI is bad, and affirming that I will catch them if they do, and vowing to flunk them for a first offense, and promising that cheating and giving up are the only ways to fail my course, and begging them not do do either.
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"When you wrote this, what did you mean?"
-- ancient academic proverb
-- ancient academic proverb
"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"When you wrote this, what did you mean?"
-- ancient academic proverb
-- ancient academic proverb
Happy turkey wings for dinner day to all who celebrate
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Happy turkey wings for dinner day to all who celebrate
Happy brothsgiving to all who celebrate
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy brothsgiving to all who celebrate
I am low-key pretty sure this would work, lol
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am low-key pretty sure this would work, lol
I just saw a picture of a jacket made of faux fur that looked like a waffle and it was amazing but then I unfortunately realized that it was AI-generated, about which I am upset, but maybe I will learn to sew in order to make one for real as a big middle finger to the AI
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I just saw a picture of a jacket made of faux fur that looked like a waffle and it was amazing but then I unfortunately realized that it was AI-generated, about which I am upset, but maybe I will learn to sew in order to make one for real as a big middle finger to the AI
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Happy thanksgiving #mathsky! I’m thankful for this community. Drop pics of food you made that you’re proud of here! I’ll start: caramelized onion Boursin mashed potatoes with a sliced potato crust
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Happy thanksgiving #mathsky! I’m thankful for this community. Drop pics of food you made that you’re proud of here! I’ll start: caramelized onion Boursin mashed potatoes with a sliced potato crust
Time to denude the thyme
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Time to denude the thyme
I actually don't know if I've ever had an all-yellow guess before:
Wordle 1,622 3/6*
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Wordle 1,622 3/6*
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November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I actually don't know if I've ever had an all-yellow guess before:
Wordle 1,622 3/6*
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Wordle 1,622 3/6*
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*Thanksgiving intensifies*
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
*Thanksgiving intensifies*
FROM DOWNTOWN!!! Wordle 1,621 2/6*
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November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FROM DOWNTOWN!!! Wordle 1,621 2/6*
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I had to cut four days of content so that I could do timed in-class assessments, in which I fundamentally do not believe.
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I had to cut four days of content so that I could do timed in-class assessments, in which I fundamentally do not believe.
God I see what you have done for others,
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
God I see what you have done for others,
let's get you to bed grandpa
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
let's get you to bed grandpa
Gave an exam today so I could say *many* things about students but instead here are some french fry eaters
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Gave an exam today so I could say *many* things about students but instead here are some french fry eaters
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all pies are good. simply do not say to me that any pies are bad. i do not even want to know about the kind of life that would so warp a person as to think any pie is bad
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
all pies are good. simply do not say to me that any pies are bad. i do not even want to know about the kind of life that would so warp a person as to think any pie is bad
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
I keep getting these ads on insta for a chocolate-covered licorice advent calendar, and every time I attempt to think about whether chocolate-covered licorice would be (a) good at all and then (b) good enough to want twenty-five daily morsels thereof, I just short out a little bit.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I keep getting these ads on insta for a chocolate-covered licorice advent calendar, and every time I attempt to think about whether chocolate-covered licorice would be (a) good at all and then (b) good enough to want twenty-five daily morsels thereof, I just short out a little bit.
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Wow! This systemic problem is really structural and far-reaching. Anyway, here are three tips for how you an individual can fix your conduct
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Wow! This systemic problem is really structural and far-reaching. Anyway, here are three tips for how you an individual can fix your conduct
"The single-largest, single-most-valuable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars (and years of construction) to start using, at which point it...doesn't make much revenue and doesn't seem to make a profit."
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November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"The single-largest, single-most-valuable company on the stock market has got there through selling ultra-expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars (and years of construction) to start using, at which point it...doesn't make much revenue and doesn't seem to make a profit."
I took these pictures of my dogs dressed in my sweatshirt over the weekend specifically because I thought I might need them on a very studenty Monday
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I took these pictures of my dogs dressed in my sweatshirt over the weekend specifically because I thought I might need them on a very studenty Monday