Jake Wright
@bcnjake.bsky.social
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.
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Jake Wright
@bcnjake.bsky.social
· Sep 27
"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
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
[screams in humanities]
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
[screams in humanities]
One of the best compliments I’ve ever received was from a colleague who remarked that I tended to give precisely the right amount of fucks in any given situation, which was often none.
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One of the best compliments I’ve ever received was from a colleague who remarked that I tended to give precisely the right amount of fucks in any given situation, which was often none.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
I don’t owe LLMs good faith.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t owe LLMs good faith.
Everyone who looks around and says that things are terrible and they want to give up because everything is so bleak, I see you. But keep this in your heart: someday, we’ll get to do this and it will be WONDERFUL.
Drink your haterade. Fuel yourself for the day we can spike the football like Manuela.
Drink your haterade. Fuel yourself for the day we can spike the football like Manuela.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Everyone who looks around and says that things are terrible and they want to give up because everything is so bleak, I see you. But keep this in your heart: someday, we’ll get to do this and it will be WONDERFUL.
Drink your haterade. Fuel yourself for the day we can spike the football like Manuela.
Drink your haterade. Fuel yourself for the day we can spike the football like Manuela.
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
Really enjoyed my hour long class discussion “the university is actively dehumanizing you” to kick off the semester. Really made me feel great.
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 12:57 PM
Really enjoyed my hour long class discussion “the university is actively dehumanizing you” to kick off the semester. Really made me feel great.
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
My 8YO has discovered Power Wash Simulator 2 and is texting me play-by-play of my wife playing it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
My 8YO has discovered Power Wash Simulator 2 and is texting me play-by-play of my wife playing it.
Every year for Thanksgiving, my parents would let each of us pick one food for Thanksgiving dinner, no questions asked. Mine was popcorn.
Whats’s yours?
Whats’s yours?
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Every year for Thanksgiving, my parents would let each of us pick one food for Thanksgiving dinner, no questions asked. Mine was popcorn.
Whats’s yours?
Whats’s yours?
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Hey y'all, check this out and if you're able and so inclined, help support a student trying to complete their education.
This is personal for me. When I was in college, my grants were cut. I needed to leave school, but the president of the university, Tom Kean, paid for my tuitions for the rest of my time there. I want to pay it forward to my student, but do not have the means to do it by myself. gofund.me/fa4a2893d
Donate to Support a Talented Student's Future, organized by Steven Strafford
Hello, everyone!
In case you're reading this and don't know me, my name i… Steven Strafford needs your support for Support a Talented Student's Future
gofund.me
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hey y'all, check this out and if you're able and so inclined, help support a student trying to complete their education.
My dad is in the hospital after 14 hours of emergency surgery for an aortic rupture on Sunday. My mom has made noises about not putting Christmas up. I’m coordinating with my brothers, SIL, and niblings to get stuff up. In deference to the holiday and the Martian, I’m calling it: PROJECT ELFROND.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My dad is in the hospital after 14 hours of emergency surgery for an aortic rupture on Sunday. My mom has made noises about not putting Christmas up. I’m coordinating with my brothers, SIL, and niblings to get stuff up. In deference to the holiday and the Martian, I’m calling it: PROJECT ELFROND.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
No, no. THIS is the objectively correct Star Wars ranking:
1) Empire
2) Rogue One
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Sleepless in Seattle
5) Pacific Rim
6) Last Jedi
7) The Silence of the Lambs
8) Transformers (1984)
9) Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
10) This Island Earth
11) Rise of Skywalker
1) Empire
2) Rogue One
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Sleepless in Seattle
5) Pacific Rim
6) Last Jedi
7) The Silence of the Lambs
8) Transformers (1984)
9) Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
10) This Island Earth
11) Rise of Skywalker
Objectively correct ranking:
1. ANH
2. TLJ
3. R1
4. ESB
5. ROTJ
6. Solo
7. ROTS
8. TPM
… a long gap…
9. AOTC
10. TFA
…another long gap…
11. COCAEA
12. ETBE
…the longest gap…
13. Holiday Special
14. TROS
1. ANH
2. TLJ
3. R1
4. ESB
5. ROTJ
6. Solo
7. ROTS
8. TPM
… a long gap…
9. AOTC
10. TFA
…another long gap…
11. COCAEA
12. ETBE
…the longest gap…
13. Holiday Special
14. TROS
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
No, no. THIS is the objectively correct Star Wars ranking:
1) Empire
2) Rogue One
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Sleepless in Seattle
5) Pacific Rim
6) Last Jedi
7) The Silence of the Lambs
8) Transformers (1984)
9) Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
10) This Island Earth
11) Rise of Skywalker
1) Empire
2) Rogue One
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Sleepless in Seattle
5) Pacific Rim
6) Last Jedi
7) The Silence of the Lambs
8) Transformers (1984)
9) Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
10) This Island Earth
11) Rise of Skywalker
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
The first rule of Fight Club is you get a story in the New York Times talking about Fight Club.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The first rule of Fight Club is you get a story in the New York Times talking about Fight Club.
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they are not playing 3D chess. they are fucking idiots.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
they are not playing 3D chess. they are fucking idiots.
The men’s locker room at the Rochester Athletic Club… uh… does *not* have this problem.
“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison — the ordinary, unposed figures of other people.” [theatlantic.com]
The End of Naked Locker Rooms
What we lose when casual nudity disappears
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The men’s locker room at the Rochester Athletic Club… uh… does *not* have this problem.
I love that Bluesky is a place of such tremendous compassion and also a place where the people showing that compassion have handles that sing to me in the voice of Drunk Jimmy Stewart. This is a world I can get behind.
It helps to lighten the load and share it with someone who understands.
Reach out. My base rate is $40 for a call/text exchange where we work through the situation and give you information and a sounding board. For most people that’s all they need.
You’re not alone and people do care. 2/e
Reach out. My base rate is $40 for a call/text exchange where we work through the situation and give you information and a sounding board. For most people that’s all they need.
You’re not alone and people do care. 2/e
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I love that Bluesky is a place of such tremendous compassion and also a place where the people showing that compassion have handles that sing to me in the voice of Drunk Jimmy Stewart. This is a world I can get behind.
Yesterday, I woke up with a plan to bring the deck furniture into the garage. Instead, the universe decided I was coming to St. Louis (again) for a family medical emergency (again).
This visit’s shenanigans: a leaky aorta that led to 13 hours of emergency surgery.
Less interesting times, please.
This visit’s shenanigans: a leaky aorta that led to 13 hours of emergency surgery.
Less interesting times, please.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yesterday, I woke up with a plan to bring the deck furniture into the garage. Instead, the universe decided I was coming to St. Louis (again) for a family medical emergency (again).
This visit’s shenanigans: a leaky aorta that led to 13 hours of emergency surgery.
Less interesting times, please.
This visit’s shenanigans: a leaky aorta that led to 13 hours of emergency surgery.
Less interesting times, please.
That "fuckin' nobody"... is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him "Charlie Brown."
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
That "fuckin' nobody"... is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him "Charlie Brown."
KANT: To be human is to be rational. Indeed, the degree to which you choose rationally reflects the degree to which you adhere to the moral law.
ME, ALSO A PHILOSOPHER: Students, did I ever tell you about the time my friend set his tongue on fire?
ME, ALSO A PHILOSOPHER: Students, did I ever tell you about the time my friend set his tongue on fire?
Aristotle: humans are the rational animal.
Humans: lol okay buddy, we'll see about that.
Humans: lol okay buddy, we'll see about that.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
KANT: To be human is to be rational. Indeed, the degree to which you choose rationally reflects the degree to which you adhere to the moral law.
ME, ALSO A PHILOSOPHER: Students, did I ever tell you about the time my friend set his tongue on fire?
ME, ALSO A PHILOSOPHER: Students, did I ever tell you about the time my friend set his tongue on fire?
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.