As an educator myself, I agree with all of the points they mentioned in the article. I’m seeing the affects right now of students who have over-used AI, that are losing the ability to critically think, and inability to create well-structured essays. I’m not a proficient writer by any means (my course is a research course so the focus is on the research, not on the writing itself), but students have submitted essays with paragraphs of absolute nonsense. It’s strange - sometimes paragraphs will initially seem like it’s making a point, but won’t end up actually making it.

As much as I hate the slop that comes across my desk now, this is the world we live in today. I’ve tried boycotting it, but it doesn’t work; Students will use AI anyway. The worst part is that sometimes it’ll clearly be AI, but I don’t have any tools to prove it. I can’t prove it, so they just lose marks on shit writing.

Instead of trying to fight against new tech, I think this is one of those things where we need to teach how and when to appropriately use AI; and restructure courses to enforce the new teaching methods. There is a time and place for LLMs; but it’s a slow process to readjust courses for it.

This was from the concert. Pretty packed

I’m in the same boat with a few others here when it comes to some games like Halo and Fallout. But I feel like I’m on the brink with 2 new ones:

• Doom: I played the original when I was a kid and got bullied for it (or probably being a general nerd). 2016 and Eternal were really popular and the franchise took off; but Dark Ages feels off. I played Dark Ages for a bit, put it down, and haven’t picked it up since. I think Doom is going down the shitter, especially what they did to Mick Gordon.
• Mother Mother (a band): My SO and I love their music for how unique and interesting it is; and we went to one of their first concerts at a small venue when they came into town ~10 years ago ish? Must have been <500 people. Generally no one else liked their music we shared it with, so we kept it to ourselves. Now? We went to another one a few months ago and it was at a HUGE stadium; absolutely packed. I think one of their songs went viral on TikTok - My Daddy’s got a gun. We’re proud of what they’ve accomplished, but really hope they don’t lose their identity in trying to become even more popular.

Plz no…

Vim ftw!

This is rreeaaalllyy close to what I want. However, it’s missing WordPress. I think I’ll set it up and play with it anyway just to see though…