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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 473 🔁 194 💬 8 📌 15

the greatest example of this was Michael Lewis and others watching Sam Bankman-Fried playing a shitty autobattler badly during meetings and concluding he must be a genius

10.03.2026 19:11 👍 228 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 2
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Cafes are flocking to San Francisco's 'almost perfect' neighborhood The area is shaping into a coffee lover's lane.

Cafes are flocking to San Francisco's 'almost perfect' neighborhood www.sfgate.com/food/article...
The Richmond has been under rated for years.

10.03.2026 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sun Tzu spent his career trying to explain to spoiled lordlings that workers, including soldiers, need to eat, because it literally didn't occur to them.

10.03.2026 16:15 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Imagine building a hugely profitable electric car company and then screwing the business up so badly that the stock price tanks in the week of a 20% increase in gasoline prices.

09.03.2026 16:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know how Trump wanted to send our military into our cities, even though that is not their job? Can we send ICE/CBP to Iran even though that is not their job?

09.03.2026 15:16 👍 1608 🔁 294 💬 2 📌 22

Loathing Jimmy Carr on first sight many years ago saved me a lot of time.

09.03.2026 15:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights ALT: some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights
09.03.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The dedicated cybercab has yet to appear in significant numbers on public roads“ is a hilarious under statement.

09.03.2026 09:34 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Reports suggest Neil Warnock turned down taking over Iran in favour of Torquay. Probably wise.

09.03.2026 09:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Somehow, the Sasanians returned

08.03.2026 21:17 👍 305 🔁 28 💬 13 📌 1
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 👍 4716 🔁 1404 💬 30 📌 72

The Liz Truss move.

09.03.2026 09:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Part of the Stark supply side thesis holding up even as demand falls.

09.03.2026 07:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

09.03.2026 04:09 👍 5367 🔁 950 💬 11 📌 13

Apparently you need to wash your eye out with evaporated milk if that happens…

08.03.2026 17:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Milton Keynes upside down and with very aggressive birds.

08.03.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's #InternationalWomensDay. So this is your annual reminder that history (and especially First World War Studies) is built on the work of amazing women scholars. Also that Star Wars wouldn't exist in any recognisable form without the work and vision of women either. 🗃️

08.03.2026 12:38 👍 44 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

So if the Farage, Badenoch etc had got their way and HMG had allowed the US to mount first strikes from British airbases then right now we would be a week into questions as to whether the air strike that wiped out a girls elementary school had been launched from a British base.

08.03.2026 13:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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08.03.2026 10:49 👍 91 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1

A little surprised he didn’t claim it was Joe Biden who bombed the school.

08.03.2026 08:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Did the Aston Martin team design the Ajax?
That would explain things.

08.03.2026 07:41 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2

A US President claiming that tin pot authoritarian regimes in Latin America are better allies to the USA than democratic Europeans must have Jeanne Kirkpatrick smiling- as she is roasted on a spit in hell.

08.03.2026 08:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He is very stuck in his obsessions with the geopolitics of the early 1980s- The danger of German and Japanese imports, avoiding a nuclear war with Russia, the threat to the southern border from hostile leftist regimes, avenging humiliation by Iran. Might be a dementia thing.

07.03.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tap the sign @chriskempshall.bsky.social

07.03.2026 13:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I fear the best hope for the world is for Suzy Wiles to whisper in his ear that this would be a good time to stop the stupid expensive war that Joe Biden started with Iran.

07.03.2026 13:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Obama releasing $400 million to Iran to get a deal that prevented Iranian nuclear weapons development is in retrospect starting to look like the best bargain of the century.

07.03.2026 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have you signed him up for the Tottenham Academy?

07.03.2026 11:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of my real fears is that people in the next generation won’t look back on this administration as one of aberrant depravity.

07.03.2026 09:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just imagine what they would be saying about the company on the bad place if it was any other company…

07.03.2026 09:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0