Unpuffs your wheat.
07.03.2026 06:59
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Unpuffs your wheat.
Untolls your. . .
*unreds your berries*
*unquakes your life*
And also, I’m laughing a little at “*empirically* disagree or agree.” I disagree, Alexander. I’m a real and empirically alive person. Ergo, I’m empirically disagreeing.
Uh-hm. If you tell him that in his self-published piece he relies—as his sole authority—on a far-right undergrad’s self-published blog post in issuing a bold dismissal of a well-known academic book, will he make a revision? Why, no, he will not. He will block you instead.
*unlucks your charms*
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It is very worrying to see pressures some educations systems are under from tech companies and their fanbois given the lack of evidence any of it helps people learn better.
The story is older than GenAI. The common thread is tech companies persistently assume a bad model of learning.
From: The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968), dir. Sándor Reisenbüchler, Pannonia Film Studio
Note: flashing images
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I'm not pleased about it, you could say.
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This is the man who has been telling us for the past week that he's become such a better social scientist since he started farming his thought out to a vibe-coded Claude workflow. And more than that! He would really like it if all other academics' work were to become just as shoddy.
Two days later, is the link to the racist's book review still in Alexander Kustov's blog post? Why yes, it is still there. Unchanged. Prof. Kustov feels confident in relying on a far-right undergrad student's assessment that a book by two well-regarded academics is "so bad" and "clearly outdated."
"In just one day I built a bike factory with Claude Hot Glue and all the paper from the recycling box. It's amazing, I wished more academics would try it. Here's one of the bikes my factory produced. Make of it what you will."
[walks away]
[paper bike falls apart, leaves a whole mess on the floor]
Similar to how, on a daily basis, I'm only wearing about 7% of my closet. What a capability overhang! It must be addressed by today's genAI companies—they play an essential role in closing that gap. GenAI companies can harness the full potential of my clothes by giving me money to hire a consultant.
I'm truly a power user of my keyboard. But even so I guess I'm still only at about 27% of its use potential given that there are people out there who could bang on a keyboard like mine for many more hours of the day than I do.
OK, I think I got the hang of this logic. 😂
Kind of tangential, but it has been fascinating to see the meaning of "power user" drift from "someone who uses advanced features of software" to "someone who uses the same janky overpriced enterprise product for everything, whether it's appropriate to the task or not"
Reading this in light of both recent time change legislation in BC and ubiquitous "just adopt my Claude Code workflow" discourse.
This is. . .an editorial? Or an opinion piece—if so, by whom?
Israel, the country famously held to account for respecting international law. Canada, the country that allowed Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC for war crimes, fly through its airspace. Sure.
Labour are the party of transphobes and other bigots.
2. Carney tells us that what he says is shaped by concerns about upsetting Trump. Not transparency with the Canadian people, not upholding principles, not defending international law. Appeasing Trump.
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The idea that researchers would sit down for 100+ more interviews in order to then have AI agents summarize and quantify them relies on the assumption that 100+ more people in vulnerable positions will agree to spending more of their time with researchers so as to be interviewed. 2/
Even the nominally ‘centrist’ anti-migrant rhetoric from the likes of Alexander Kustov, dressed up in ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ falls flat (here’s an example from a recent insipid piece of his, framed as countering ‘misinformation’). This is the denial that other ‘ordinary people’ *are humans like you*
this is a muscle you will have to train because kustov is just being honest about what i suspect many other people are now doing. someone that is lazy enough to do hate click content is lazy enough to have a computer generate said content.
its really three sins at once
1. hate-click post
2. computer-generated
3. computer-generated hate click post is about computer-generated content
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.
Let’s face it: queer studies—in all its incarnations—has always been an unruly participant in academic spaces. We arrive with blushes and leather strap-ons, coy and provocative. We dare to take our intimate practices as grounds from which to theorize geopolitics.
#drafting
