Tim Pierce
what's a man like me supposed to do
with all this extra savoir-faire?
- David Zaslav was paid $51.9 million last year.
- BOOM! Max is becoming...HBO Max. Again. No, really. www.vulture.com/article/hbo-...
- We're all making fun of this name change--as we should because it is objectively hilarious--but what's behind it is the total failure of Zaslav's biggest bet, which is that all of his Discovery stuff would be as attractive to Max subscribers as HBO-branded programming. It was not. Nobody watched it.
- Now that COYOTE VS. ACME is headed for a full release, dare we hope that David Zaslav will finally be out of a job soon?
- "Madam Secretary, I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old, and a three-year-old. I have a bullshit detector." this is a *bonkers* clip
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- The counterargument is that she's functioning exactly as the administration wants her to. I mean as a *human being* I agree she's deeply broken. but.
- *crab-walked
- The Shawshank Crustacean.
- Marcel the Shell with Cement Shoes On
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- I really don't get these guys. I wonder whether there's a video game culture at play, of treating every interaction online as though it's a battle that needs to be won. When you could just, like, have a conversation.
- My approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward: 1. It's plagiarism. 2. Plagiarism is poison. 3. It doesn't even make your writing good. 4. I will catch you if you do it. 5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
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- It’s not my place to argue Angus’s point for him, and if he has any sense at all he’s already muted this thread, but I find it really interesting when people continue to conduct straw man arguments after being repeatedly corrected. It must grant some sort of satisfaction but I don’t understand it.
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- Again, “AI is bad” is simply not the argument that’s being presented here.
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- Angus’s argument here is neither “students should do more work” nor “the predictive statistical model of AI is immoral” so I’m not really sure what you think you’re arguing against.
- It's less that it takes increasing amounts of time than that it imposes restrictions on the kinds of papers I can assign, which is in some ways annoying.
- I’m fascinated by the proposition of essay topics that are more resistant to LLM-enhanced cheating and would love to see examples, if you feel willing and inclined to share!
