Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
“Say. … It’s only a paper moon.”
This is good.
“We don’t need to revive rockism—it was always stupid to think that you can only make good art with a Fender Stratocaster. But we do need to revive our desire for seriousness among our cultural elite.”
www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eatin...
getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know
it is truly remarkable how effectively "radical centrists" managed to mainstream neo-Nazism, in the space of about 10 years
"It's a republic, not a democracy" say the people cheering for gladiatorial combat in the capital city in a mixture of patriotic fervor and celebration of the ruler's birthday.
Not intentionally being vague here, it’s just *gestures around at everything*
We seem to have gotten to a point where the only way out is a radical overhaul of, well, pretty much everything. That is a dangerous place to be.