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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.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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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.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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?
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Dear Graham,

Log. Off. And. Go. To. Therapy.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
He is always reliably excellent, imho.
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM