Nick Davis

teaching media and politics like a history course now

noice

taps sign

In a sane system of rules-based law, none of that schlock re: curriculum is remotely enforceable. Tenure, whatever, fight about it fine. But overriding accrediting bodies? Yeah cool totally normal.

Alabama‘s HB580 is designed to fundamentally reshape the delivery of higher education and should it pass the era of good times professoring is super dead — curriculum boards, witch hunts, and no tenure will upend the institution

cheap suicide drones and a natural funnel through which a huge chunk of petrol travels — what could possibly go wrong

Agreed

I give it less than a week before he publicly flaunts our nuclear capabilities and floats a “shame if we used one” sentiment

i dont even think it’s doomerism, either, bc his brains are leaking out of his ears, he loves being an edgelord, and he hasnt met an off-ramp he ever took.

The inevitable end is Trump dropping a nuke…you know hes already asked how he could do it.

It is as it ever was but that there is no $ in the proverbial banana stand to TAKE CARE OF OUR “OWN” — a group of people republicans continuously tell us are special — is just the icing on the cake.

chat, we had to fight v hard to get some of this into the final copy. woof.

still my favorite lil rumination, tho:

working thru proofs for supremely polarizing -- its almost alive! -- and found myself nodding along to this passage given the state of things

dont tell me to touch grass jon

well ill be damned.

10/10 do not like

I’ll see myself out.

That, too.

Oh, there’s a comma missing nevermind.

What did they name it?

political scientists will immediately shake their heads sagely and mutter about converse

BUT

my initial reaction is that this is a thorny problem for arguments about data quality that treat “contradictory“ responses as evidence of low quality data

people are weird.

#themoreyouknow

“Amcits” is a new one for me — is that an established shorthand over there?

I guess both of these things can be true but it’s still funny to watch it all unfold as people bicker about how dumb and bad the magic god box is

“It keeps making up citations” vs. “I trained this algo to topic model 10,000 texts.”

Like…uhhh….so

The gulf between public laments against and praise for LLMs is really curious. “It keeps hallucinating“ vs. “it’s a productivity multiplier“ with no apparent ground between. Personal anecdote running wild. Weird time to be a social scientist.

War is bad but at least we had another season of Bridgerton and Love is blind to keep us plodding along

We are locked into the dumbest possible timeline.