And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Are you not familiar with this sentence structure? It’s a pretty common way of expressing that something is big: “a massive great oak tree”, “a strapping great rugby player”, “a whopping great typo” etc.

Is this perhaps a regional difference?

Dear Graham,

Log. Off. And. Go. To. Therapy.

He is always reliably excellent, imho.

I mean…can we blame them?

(Although tbh I find Tom Hollander equally attractive. Ymmv.)

…Occasionally I speculate as to the existence of some septuagenarian short king called Tom Hollandest whom I would find completely irresistible.