Chris Fosen
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Professor of Composition/Rhetoric at CSU, Chico, Chair of WAC comm., mtn biker, itinerant runner, three cats in a trenchcoat, very anti-AI
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I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I’d be more sympathetic to “Nuzzi and Lizza are uniquely bad and not at all representative of political reporters in general” if political reporters haven’t spent the past 10 years torching their own credibility all the way back to the full court press on Hillary’s emails.
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not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
To add, the fact that PhDs being called “Doctor” predates its use by MDs never seems to have crossed his mind
This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
To add, the fact that PhDs being called “Doctor” predates its use by MDs never seems to have crossed his mind
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In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Gameday voting on which school has the most faculty in the Epstein Files
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Gameday voting on which school has the most faculty in the Epstein Files
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Meanwhile, in addition to all the people mystified by Trump’s reaction, we have a related crowd who are like “I’m really puzzled that this guy—who recently got himself elected Mayor of New York as a 34 year old socialist Muslim—approached his meeting with Trump in a politically savvy manner”.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Meanwhile, in addition to all the people mystified by Trump’s reaction, we have a related crowd who are like “I’m really puzzled that this guy—who recently got himself elected Mayor of New York as a 34 year old socialist Muslim—approached his meeting with Trump in a politically savvy manner”.
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Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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I'm keeping a list of cowards and collaborators who've helped destroy public health and biomedical research: who would you nominate? From Ta-Nehisi Coates: "If none of us are here, If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were."
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm keeping a list of cowards and collaborators who've helped destroy public health and biomedical research: who would you nominate? From Ta-Nehisi Coates: "If none of us are here, If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were."
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5 ways to think about OpenAI in education 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
5 ways to think about OpenAI in education 🧵
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Actual originalism
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Actual originalism
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the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
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While this doesn't show up in the * merchandise * trade deficit, it does represent a significant drop in total U.S. exports and a gift to competitors
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
While this doesn't show up in the * merchandise * trade deficit, it does represent a significant drop in total U.S. exports and a gift to competitors
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Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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This has got a good beat to it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This has got a good beat to it.
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We should not mandate AP exams.
If high schools and elite colleges are holding students and teachers accountable for AP test results, you have a strong incentive to fix this problem.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We should not mandate AP exams.
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A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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Jamal Khashoggi was unavailable for comment.
Rep. Moolenaar on Trump selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia: "I believe the president is bringing different countries into the coalition that would be more aligned with Western values and with respect for national security. I trust his team."
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Jamal Khashoggi was unavailable for comment.
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This is terrific.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is terrific.
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This has always been something I suspected which made conversations with some policy folks very frustrating
Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This has always been something I suspected which made conversations with some policy folks very frustrating
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
So @lastweektonight.com is running an auction of "John Oliver's Junk" to support public media that Trump has defunded. I don't have the money for it, but the one item on the list that would be most tempting is definitely the Ajit Pai mocking mug: e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i...