Steve Dice

Nah, there’ll be a new boogeyman by then.

That Russian song that sounds like Joy Division on MDMA. I’m told the lyrics are very depressing but it’s absolute fucking fire.

Can’t wait for the “The end of Windows 11 is approaching…” article in a few years. Keep me posted.

Baby duck syndrome.

I know what an LLM is doing. You don’t know what your brain is doing.

Everyone also needs to speak in public at some point and some don’t feel comfortable writing either. You’re entirely missing the point. I didn’t say “stop asking them to write”, I said “stop trying to catch them using AI and be a better teacher”.

That’s exactly what I said not to do. Stop focusing on ways to “weed them out” and start improving your teaching. Assigning reading material and then discussing it in class is a much better way to gauge your students voice that any essay they could write by hand on however long the class lasts. It’s also a better use of your time; I can image few things worse than reading 50 essays written by undergrads.

I’m just gonna repost my comment to the original post on the 404media community:

Here’s a funny story: I once got a D on an essay for my History of Physics class because it was so good that the TA was certain I had plagiarized it. The only reason I didn’t end up in front of the ethics board was because she couldn’t find any evidence of me doing so… because I hadn’t. How many students are in the same situation due to overzealous teachers who have a bone to pick with AI?

Notice how most of the proposed “solutions” focus on bans, and ways to catch and punish students with almost none on improving archaic teaching techniques. Oral presentations, debates, real-world projects, essays on local subjects, using class to discuss subjects students previously studied instead of pontificating for 2 hours, doing away with homework, actually engaging students so they don’t feel like cheating… there’s loads of ways to teach without AI being a hindrance but it requires teachers to actually adapt instead of being stubborn, lazy twats with an inferiority complex.

2025 Mazda MX-5 Miata ‘got absolutely wrecked’ by Inflatable Boat in beginner’s boat racing match — Mazda’s newest model bamboozled by 1930s technology.

That’s exactly what thinking is, though.

Appa.

By USPS you mean post office? If so, I’m gonna need you to explain the “USPS infrastructure can be reworked to offer internet service” part. Not arguing, genuinely curious.