Matt Zoller Seitz
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
- Do you think these Fox News hosts eat 100 breath mints an hour to cover up the stench of the constant bootlicking
- 1. This is terrible 2. Will anything be done beyond announcing that it’s terrible
- I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.
- I block people without comment if they represent themselves as progressive, but I see that their timeline is filled with Gen AI imagery, which consumes resources and destroys the livelihood of creative people Keep that fascist boomer slop away from me, please
- Reposted by Matt Zoller Seitz🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
- I only taught college for three years, but the final exam in the class was the student talking to me for half an hour about what they learned, and if I remember correctly, a quarter of the grade was based on that conversation The rest was on class participation and a handful of homework assignments
- This is an excellent idea The lecture is homework and questions/interaction or what happens in the classroom
- Reposted by Matt Zoller SeitzI got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
- In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
- Reposted by Matt Zoller Seitz“Waingros have infiltrated every part of the world through a combination of relentless self-promotion fueled by unearned self-confidence. They walk into any situation that requires teamwork and community, asking, “How could I make this about me?”
- Yep, as a “scholarship kid“ I can concur I was never able to fart around while I was “finding myself“ because my parents didn’t have money to support that Journalism was a working class profession until the late 70s/early 80s and I think it was a mistake in retrospect to “professionalize” it
