#Professions

@barkybamboo.bsky.social

2 days ago

Talking of professions, can we have professions tables in our houses? Please! @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

#WoW #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft #Professions

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Barkybamboo 🏳️‍🌈

@barkybamboo.bsky.social

2 days ago

Please make these professions skill levels account wide.

#WoW #Warcraft #WorldOfWarcraft #Professions @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

2 days ago

Awakari App

#Artificial #Intelligence #Software #Computers #and #the #Internet #Careers #and #Professions #Layoffs

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LLMs

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2 days ago

Awakari App

#Artificial #Intelligence #Software #Computers #and #the #Internet #Careers #and #Professions #Layoffs

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LLMs

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2 days ago

Awakari App

#Artificial #Intelligence #Software #Computers #and #the #Internet #Careers #and #Professions #Layoffs

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Velsword

@velsword.bsky.social

1 week ago

Join the Chronofur Discord Server! Check out the Chronofur community on Discord - hang out with 4 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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#recruiting #discord #roleplay #rp #18+ #furry #fursona #group #server #pbp #livetext #professions #scaly #scalies

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⚔️Atolanos⚔️🏳️‍🌈🐺

@atolanos.bsky.social

1 week ago

Dont forget with darkmoon faire out TODAY, you can get midnight skill AND knowledge for ALL professions with the quests on the island!

#warcraft #midnight #professions

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Greek Peek

@dietmaster.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#Επαγγέλματα που κινδυνεύουν περισσότερο από την #Τεχνητή #Νοημοσύνη μέσα στο επόμενο έτος #professions #risk #Artificial #Intelligence

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Laboratoire UTOPI

@umr5311utopi.bsky.social

1 month ago

Sociologie du travail et des professions (Grand format - Broché 2026), de David Pichonnaz, Kevin Toffel | Hachette.fr Que fait le travail aux individus et quelles sont les variations de pratiques au sein d’un même métier ? En quoi certaines professions sont-elles perç

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L'ouvrage " #Sociologie du travail et des #professions", coordonné par David Pichonnaz et Kevin Toffel, paru aux éditions Armand Colin, est disponible ici :

➡️ www.hachette.fr/livre/sociol...

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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions

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1 month ago

BOOK of OATHS 1649 COMMONWEALTH Professions ALLEGIANCE Garnet OFFICES King 1st

#books #antiquarian #oaths #17thcentury #professions #offices #Garent #King #firstedition #Commonwealth #bookauction
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@emergingtechnews.bsky.social

1 month ago

AI is upon us. So why is Korea still fixated on rote-learning? Bae Hyun-jin (not her real name), 46, is an activist who openly opposes South Korea’s private education culture. Yet she carries a secret. She currently spends

As the #AI era takes shape, albeit at an early stage, many Korean parents & #students find themselves #disoriented. In 2023, the #BankofKorea warned that high-income #professions such as medicine, law & accountancy were highly #vulnerable to AI #disruption. www.koreaherald.com/article/1066...

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@englishinn.bsky.social

1 month ago

Beginner Vocabulary: Jobs 2 (A1)
youtu.be/L_YhbQJopwE
Here comes another film in the series for beginner students aimed at practising the names of various jobs.
#englishinn #english #englishin3minutes #beginner #vocabulary #jobs #professions

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Public Domain Image Archive

@pdimagearchive.bsky.social

1 month ago

Florist / The Writer / Musician / Barber (ca. 1800) by Samuel William Fores, from Hieroglyphics.

Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

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#professions #anthropomorphism #satire #musicians #caricatures #florists #writers #job

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Easy Asset Search

@easyassetsearch.com

1 month ago

Mega Pack: Professions Mega Pack Professions contains 34 unique character models from 5 professions to populate for example a small village! All packs come with handy objects related to the professions!

#Management #Builder #Security #Logistics #Personnel #City #Hospital #Cleaners #Police #Occupation #Retailshop #Professions #Gamification #Megapack

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LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026) Today's links AI is how bosses wage war on "professions": The only people *required* to tell their bosses t...

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1 month ago

Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026) Today's links AI is how bosses wage war on "professions": The only people *required* to tell their bosses to fuck off. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Enshittification v VC; Byrne v DRM; Forger does it for the exposure; Beach trash hotel; Mafia nicknames; Longbow puzzle; NIMBYs; No one should be on the No-Fly list. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (permalink) Growing up, I assumed that being a "professional" meant that you were getting paid to do something. That's a perfectly valid definition (I still remember feeling like a "pro" the first time I got paid for my writing), but "professional" has another, far more important definition. In this other sense of the word, a "professional" is someone bound to a code of conduct that supersedes both the demands of their employer and the demands of the state. Think of a doctor's Hippocratic Oath: having sworn to "first do no harm," a doctor is (literally) duty-bound to refuse orders to harm their patients. If a hospital administrator, a police officer or a judge orders a doctor to harm their patient, they are supposed to refuse. Indeed, depending on how you feel about oaths, they are required to refuse. There are many "professions" bound to codes of conduct, policed to a greater or lesser extent by "colleges" or other professional associations, many of which have the power to bar a member from the profession for "professional misconduct." Think of lawyers, accountants, medical professionals, librarians, teachers, some engineers, etc. While all of these fields are very different in terms of the work they do, they share one important trait: they are all fields that AI bros swear will be replaced by chatbots in the near future. I find this an interesting phenomenon. It's clear to me that chatbots can't do these jobs. Sure, there are instances in which professionals may choose to make use of some AI tools, and I'm happy to stipulate that when a skilled professional chooses to use AI as an adjunct to their work, it might go well. This is in keeping with my theory that to the extent that AI is useful, it's when its user is a centaur (a person assisted by technology), but that employers dream of making AI's users into reverse centaurs (machines who are assisted by people): https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington A psychotherapist who uses AI to transcribe sessions so they can refresh their memory about an exact phrase while they're making notes is a centaur. A psychotherapist who monitors 20 chat sessions with LLM "therapists" in order to intervene if the LLM starts telling patients to kill themselves is a "reverse centaur." This situation makes it impossible for them to truly help "their" patients; they are an "accountability sink," installed to absorb the blame when a patient is harmed by the AI. Lawyers might use a chatbot to help them format a brief or transcribe a client meeting (centaur)- but when senior partners require their juniors and paralegals to write briefs at inhuman speed (reverse centaur), they are setting themselves up for briefs full of "hallucinated" citations: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/ I hold a bedrock view that even though an AI can't do your job, an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete But why are bosses such easy marks for these gabby AI hustlers? Partly, it's because an AI can probably do your boss's job – if 90% of your job is answering email and delegating tasks, and if you are richly rewarded for success but get to blame failure on your underlings, then, yeah, an AI can totally do that job. But I think there's an important psychological dimension to this: bosses are especially easy to trick with AI when they're being asked to believe that they can use AI to fire workers who are in a position to tell them to fuck off. That certainly explains why bosses are so thrilled by the prospect of swapping professionals for chatbots. What a relief it would be to fire everyone who is professionally required to tell you to fuck off when you want them to do stupid and/or dangerous things; so you could replace them with servile, groveling LLMs that punctuate their sentences with hymns to your vision and brilliance! This also explains why media bosses are so anxious to fire screenwriters and actors and replace them with AI. After all, you prompt an LLM in exactly the same way a clueless studio boss gives notes to a writers' room: "Give me ET, but make it about a dog, give it a love interest, and put a car chase in Act III." The difference is that the writers will call you a clueless fucking suit and demand that you go back to your spreadsheets and stop bothering them while they're trying to make a movie, whereas the chatbot will cheerfully shit out a (terrible) script to spec. The fact that the script will suck is less important than the fact that swapping writers for LLMs will let studio bosses escape ego-shattering conflicts with empowered workers who actually know how to do things. It also explains why bosses are so anxious to replace programmers with chatbots. When programmers were scarce and valuable, they had to be lured into employment with luxurious benefits, lavish pay, and a collegial relationship with their bosses, where everyone was "just an engineer." Tech companies had business-wide engineering meetings where techies were allowed to tell their bosses that they thought their technical and business strategies were stupid. Now that tech worker supply has caught up with demand, bosses are relishing the thought of firing these "entitled" coders and replacing them with chatbots overseen by traumatized reverse centaurs who will never, ever tell them to fuck off: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-princes-of-labor/#hyper-criti-hype And of course, this explains why bosses are so eager to use AI to replace workers who might unionize: drivers, factory workers, warehouse workers. For what is a union if not an institution that lets you tell your boss to fuck off? https://www.thewrap.com/conde-nast-fires-union-staffers-video/ AI salesmen may be slick, but they're not that slick. Bosses are easy marks for anyone who dangles the promise of a world where everyone – human and machine – follows orders to the letter, and praises you for giving them such clever, clever orders. (Image: Christoph Scholz; CC BY-SA 2.0; Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; modified) Hey look at this (permalink) Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html Vein Finder Demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS68ePykav0 Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant https://prospect.org/2026/01/19/author-dont-say-abolish-ice-memo-corporate-consultant-westexec/ Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/axlerod_ai_saves_insurance_agents_time/ IMF Warns Global Economic Resilience at Risk if AI Falters https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/1423221/imf-warns-global-economic-resilience-at-risk-if-ai-falters Object permanence (permalink) #20yrsago Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/20/broadcast-flag-is-back-this-time-it-covers-ipods-and-psps-too/ #20yrsago Nonprofit alternative to CDDB gets its first deal https://web.archive.org/web/20060128114433/http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/01/introducing_lin_1.html #20yrsago David Byrne: boycott DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20060117084842/http://journal.davidbyrne.com/ #20yrsago Cozy blanket with sleeves: the Slanket https://web.archive.org/web/20060203040004/https://www.theslanket.com/ #15yrsago Safe-cracking robot autodials combinations to brute-force a high-security safe https://web.archive.org/web/20110709082726/http://www.kvogt.com/autodialer/ #15yrsago Forger never takes money, only wants to see his works hanging in galleries https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/design/12fraud.html #15yrsago Hotel made of beach trash in Madrid https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/new-hotel-is-complete-rubbish-20110120-19xjl.html #15yrsago Enfield, CT cancels screening of Moore’s Sicko after pressure from local gov’t https://web.archive.org/web/20110123033350/http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63420 #15yrsago Best mafiosi nicknames from today’s historic bust https://web.archive.org/web/20110126120419/https://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/the_20_best_nic.php #10yrsago Very sad news about science fiction titan David G Hartwell https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/20/very-sad-news-about-science-fiction-titan-david-g-hartwell/ #10yrsago Solving the “Longbow Puzzle”: why did France and Scotland keep their inferior crossbows? https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/684231 #10yrsago Netflix demands Net Neutrality, but makes an exception for T-Mobile https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/19/10794288/netflix-t-mobile-binge-on-net-neutrality-zero-rating #10yrsago Research: increased resident participation in city planning produces extreme wealth segregation https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/data-analysis-reveals-that-us-cities-are-segregating-the-wealthy/ #10yrsago Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs https://www.techdirt.com/2016/01/19/more-realistic-modelling-tpps-effects-predicts-450000-us-jobs-lost-gdp-contraction/ #10yrsago Howto: make your own fantastically detailed Star Trek: TOS bridge playset https://www.instructables.com/Star-Trek-Enterprise-Bridge-Playset/ #10yrsago Strategic butt coverings in video games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujTufg1GvR4 #10yrsago Company that pampers rich people at Burning Man won’t give up https://memex.craphound.com/2016/01/20/company-that-pampers-rich-people-at-burning-man-wont-give-up/ #5yrsago No one should be on the No-Fly List https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/20/damn-the-shrub/#no-nofly #5yrsago My letter to the FBI https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/20/damn-the-shrub/#foia #1yrago Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis #1yrago Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy" https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/#dingo-babysitter Upcoming appearances (permalink) Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937 Colorado Springs: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25 https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/ Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28 https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/ Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30 https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/ Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5 https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/ Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20 https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19 https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25 https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2 Recent appearances (permalink) Why Big Tech is a Trap for Independent Creators (Stripper News) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYDyz8AMZ0 Enshittification (Creative Nonfiction podcast) https://brendanomeara.com/episode-507-enshittification-author-cory-doctorow-believes-in-a-new-good-internet/ A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39c3) https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet Enshittification with Plutopia https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-enshittification/ "can't make Big Tech better; make them less powerful" (Get Subversive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1EzM9_6eLE Latest books (permalink) "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/ "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels). "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org). "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org). "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245). "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com. "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com Upcoming books (permalink) "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026 "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026 "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026 "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 Colophon (permalink) Today's top sources: Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America (1002 words today, 10352 total) "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE. "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING. A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING This work – excluding any serialized fiction – is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. That means you can use it any way you like, including commercially, provided that you attribute it to me, Cory Doctorow, and include a link to pluralistic.net. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Quotations and images are not included in this license; they are included either under a limitation or exception to copyright, or on the basis of a separate license. Please exercise caution. 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@vincentstclare.bsky.social

2 months ago

... and many, many other things (roles, #professions, #vocations, &c.), including ones I've yet to discover or really explore.

I've personally taken to calling this sort of emotional–psychological–existential #paralysis, and others like it, "the #Plath problem", after #Sylvia 's similar struggle...

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a…

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

2 months ago

Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) Today's links Writing vs AI: If you wouldn't ask an AI to eat a delicious pizza for you, why would you ask it to write a college essay? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: WELL State of the World; A poem in 30m logfiles; Weapons of Math Destruction; The cost of keeping "13" a British secret; Congress v. "Little Green Men"; "Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air" Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Writing vs AI (permalink) I come from a family of teachers – both parents taught all their lives and now oversee Ed.D candidates, brother owns a school – which has left me painfully aware of the fact that I am not a great teacher. I am, however, a good teacher. The difference is that a good teacher can teach students who want to learn, whereas a great teacher can inspire students to want to learn. I've spent most of my life teaching, here and there, and while I'm not great, I am getting better. Last year, I started a new teaching gig: I'm one of Cornell's AD White Visiting Professors, meaning that I visit Cornell (and its NYC campus, Cornell Tech) every year or two for six years and teach, lecture, meet, and run activities. When I was in Ithaca in September for my inaugural stint, I had a string of what can only be called "peak experiences," meeting with researchers, teachers, undergrads, grads and community members. I had so many conversations that will stick with me, and today I want to talk about one of them. It was a faculty discussion, and one of the people at the table had been involved in a research project to investigate students' attitudes to their education. The research concluded that students come to Cornell to learn – because they love knowledge and critical thinking – but they are so haunted by the financial consequences of failure (wasting tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars repeating a year or failing out altogether, and then entering the job market debt-burdened and degree-less) that they feel pressured not to take intellectual risks, and, at worst, to cheat. They care about learning, but they're afraid of bad grades, and so chasing grades triumphs over learning. At that same discussion, I met someone who taught Cornell's version of freshman comp, the "here's how to write at a college level" course that every university offers. I've actually guest-taught some of these, starting in 2005/6, when I had a Fulbright Chair at USC. Now, while I'm not a great teacher, I am a pretty good writing teacher. I was lucky enough to be mentored by Judith Merril (starting at the age of 9!), who taught me how to participate in a peer-based writing workshop: https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/13/better-to-have-loved/#neofuturians In high school, I met Harriet Wolff, a gifted writing teacher, whose writing workshop (which Judith Merril had actually founded, decades earlier) was so good that I spent seven years in my four-year high-school, mostly just to keep going to Harriet's workshop: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/30/merely-clever/#rip-harriet-wolff I graduated from the Clarion science fiction and fantasy workshop (where Judith Merril learned to workshop) in 1992, and then went on to teach Clarion and Clarion West on several occasions, as well as other workshops in the field, such as Viable Paradise (today, I volunteer for Clarion's board). I have taught and been taught, and I've learned a thing or two. Here's the thing about every successful writing workshop I've been in: they don't necessarily make writing enjoyable (indeed, they can be painful), but they make it profoundly satisfying. When you repeatedly sit down with the same writers, week after week, to think about what went wrong with their work, and how they can fix it, and to hear the same about your work, something changes in how you relate to your work. You come to understand how to transform big, inchoate ideas into structured narratives and arguments, sure – but you also learn to recognize when the structure that emerges teaches you something about those big, inchoate ideas that was there all along, but not visible to you. It's revelatory. It teaches you what you know. It lets you know what you know. It lets you know more than you know. It's alchemical. It creates new knowledge, and dispels superstition. It sharpens how you think. It sharpens how you talk. And obviously, it sharpens how you write. The freshmen comp students I've taught over the years were amazed (or, more honestly, incredulous) when I told them this, because for them, writing was a totally pointless exercise. Well, almost totally pointless. Writing had one point: to get a passing grade so that the student could advance to other subjects. I'm not surprised by this, nor do I think it's merely because some of us are born to write and others will never get the knack (I've taught too many writers to think that anyone can guess who will find meaning in writing). It's because we don't generally teach writing this way until the most senior levels – the last year or two of undergrad, or, more likely, grad school (and then only if that grad program is an MFA). Writing instruction at lower levels, particularly in US high schools, is organized around standardized assessment. Students are trained to turn out the world's worst literary form: the five-paragraph essay: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3749 The five-paragraph essay is so rigid that any attempt to enliven it is actually punished during the grading process. One cannot deviate from the structure, on penalty of academic censure. It's got all the structural constraints of a sonnet, and all the poetry of a car crusher. The five-paragraph essay is so terrible that a large part of the job of a freshman comp teacher is to teach students to stop writing them. But even after this is done, much of the freshman comp curriculum is also formulaic (albeit with additional flexibility). That's unavoidable: freshman comp classes are typically massive, since so many of the incoming students have to take it. When you're assessing 100-2,000 students, you necessarily fall back on formula. Which brings me back to that faculty discussion at Cornell, where we learned first that students want to learn, but are afraid of failure; and then heard from the freshman comp teacher, who told us that virtually all of their students cheated on their assignments, getting chatbots to shit out their papers. And that's what I've been thinking about since September. Because of course those students cheat on their writing assignments – they are being taught to hit mechanical marks with their writing, improving their sentence structure, spelling and punctuation. What they're not learning is how to use writing to order and hone their thoughts, or to improve their ability to express those thoughts. They're being asked to write like a chatbot – why wouldn't they use a chatbot? You can't teach students to write – not merely to create formally correct sentences, but to write – through formal, easily graded assignments. Teaching writing is a relational practice. It requires that students interact extensively with one another's work, and with one another's criticism. It requires structure, sure – but the structure is in how you proceed through the critiques and subsequent discussion – not in the work itself. This is the kind of thing you do in small seminars, not big lecture halls. It requires that each student produce a steady stream of work for critique – multiple pieces per term or semester – and that each student closely read and discuss every other student's every composition. It's an intense experience that pushes students to think critically about critical thought itself. It's hard work that requires close supervision and it only works in small groups. Now, common sense will tell you that this is an impractical way to run a freshman comp class that thousands of students have to take. Not every school can be Yale, whose Daily Themes writing course is the most expensive program to deliver with one instructor for every two students: https://admissions.yale.edu/bulldogs-blogs/logan/2020/03/01/daily-themes But think back to the two statements that started me down this line of thinking: 1) Most students want to learn, but are afraid of the financial ruin that academic failure will entail and so they play things very safe; and 2) Virtually all freshman comp students use AI to cheat on their assignments. By the time we put our students in writing programs that you can't cheat on, and where you wouldn't want to cheat, they've had years of being taught to write like an LLM, but with the insistence that they not use an LLM. No wonder they're cheating! If you wanted to train a graduating class to cheat rather than learn, this is how you'd do it. Teaching freshman comp as a grammar/sentence structure tutorial misses the point. Sure, student writing is going to be bad at first. It'll be incoherent. It'll be riddled with errors. Reading student work is, for the most part, no fun. But for students, reading other students' writing, and thinking about what's wrong with it and how to fix it is the most reliable way to improve their own work (the dirty secret of writing workshops is that other writers' analysis of your work is generally less useful to you than the critical skills you learn by trying to fix their work). The amazing thing about bad writing is that it's easy to improve. It's much easier than finding ways to improve the work of a fluid, experienced writer. A beginning writer who makes a lot of easily spotted mistakes is a beginning writer who's making a lot of easily fixed mistakes. That means that the other writers around the circle are capable of spotting those errors, even if they're just starting out themselves. It also means that the writer whose work is under discussion will be able to make huge improvements through simple changes. Beginning writers can get a lot of momentum going this way, deriving real satisfaction from constant, visible progress. Replacing freshman comp with dozens of small groups run like graduate seminars is expensive and hard to imagine. But it would create a generation of students who wouldn't use an AI to write their essays any more than they'd ask an AI to eat a delicious pizza for them. We should aspire to assign the kinds of essays that change the lives of the students who write them, and to teach students to write that kind of essay. Freshman comp was always a machine for turning out reliable sentence-makers, not an atelier that trained reliable sense-makers. But AI changes the dynamic. Today, students are asking chatbots to write their essays for the same reason that corporations are asking chatbots to do their customer service (because they don't give a shit): https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/unmerchantable-substitute-goods/#customer-disservice I'm not saying that small writing workshops of the sort that changed my life will work for everyone. But I am saying that teaching writing in huge lecture halls with assignments optimized for grading works for no one. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) Hey look at this (permalink) Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/ If you get promoted at work, keep it a secret from your landlord https://www.reddit.com/r/shitrentals/comments/1q38sh4/if_you_get_promoted_at_work_keep_it_a_secret_from/ Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-police-report-frog Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/ Patrick Nielsen Hayden Retires https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/05/patrick-nielsen-hayden-retires/ Object permanence (permalink) #10yrsago The annual WELL State of the World, with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/487/Bruce-Sterling-Jon-Lebkowsky-Sta-page01.html #10yrsago NZ police broke the law when they raided investigative journalist’s home https://www.techdirt.com/2016/01/05/new-zealands-raid-investigatory-journalist-was-illegal/ #10yrsago Someone at the Chaos Communications Congress inserted a poem into at least 30 million servers’ logfiles https://web.archive.org/web/20160106133105/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/chaos-communication-congress-hackers-invaded-millions-of-servers-with-a-poem #10yrsago Bernie Sanders on small money donations vs sucking up to billionaires https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34452-this-is-not-democracy-this-is-oligarchy #10yrsago Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data threatens democracy https://mathbabe.org/2016/01/06/finishing-up-weapons-of-math-destruction/ #10yrsago Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2704305 #10yrsago New York Public Library does the public domain right https://www.nypl.org/research/resources/public-domain-collections #10yrsago UK government spent a fortune fighting to keep the number 13 a secret https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35221173 #5yrsago Congress bans "little green men" https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#ndaa #5yrsago Mass court: "I agree" means something https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#i-agree #5yrsago Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/methane-diet/#3kg-per-day#5yrsago Upcoming appearances (permalink) Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937 Colorado Springs: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25 https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/ Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28 https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/ Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30 https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/ Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5 https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/ Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25 https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2 Recent appearances (permalink) A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39c3) https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet Enshittification with Plutopia https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-enshittification/ "can't make Big Tech better; make them less powerful" (Get Subversive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1EzM9_6eLE The Enshitification Life Cycle with David Dayen (Organized Money) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412334/episodes/18399894 Enshittificaition on The Last Show With David Cooper: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-the-last-show-with-david-c-31145360/episode/cory-doctorow-enshttification-december-16-2025-313385767 Latest books (permalink) "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/ "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels). "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org). "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org). "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245). "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com. 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Insee

@insee.fr

2 months ago

#Professions | Savez-vous quelle est votre PCS (Profession et Catégorie Socioprofessionnelle) ?

La nomenclature des PCS est un outil central de description de la société française élaboré par l’Insee.

Rendez-vous sur le site de la nomenclature PCS !

👉 www.nomenclature-pcs.fr/coder/trouve...

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🧿✨MJ, TundraTaoist✨🧿 aka 🏹 Damsel of DPS 🏹 🌷She/Her🌷 ❄️Alaska❄️ ❌👑

@tundrataoist.bsky.social

2 months ago

World Of Warcraft Screenshot: A toy train circles the top of the fireplace in the great room entry.

I am never farming titanium to craft another train ever again. 😵‍💫 #Decor #Engineering #Professions

#WoWPlayerHousing #PlayerHousing #WorldOfWarcraft #WomenGamers #GamerGirls #SeniorGamers #MMORPGs #Gaming

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Python-Job-Alert

@python-job-alert.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

National Cat Herders Day From project managers to parents, show appreciation for people in your life who achieve seemingly impossible tasks with patience and humility.

Today is National Cat Herders Day From project managers to parents, show appreciation for people in your life who achieve seemingly impossible tasks with patience and humility. You don’t have to ...

#Attitudes #& #Emotions #Jobs #& #Professions #Life #& #Living

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Finland

@finland.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day Innovative leaders blend business acumen and environmental stewardship, creating a sustainable legacy that shapes industries and nurtures our planet.

Today is Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day Innovative leaders blend business acumen and environmental stewardship, creating a sustainable legacy that shapes industries and nurtures our planet. Eco-m...

#Jobs #& #Professions #Nature #& #Environment

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Insee

@insee.fr

3 months ago

#Professions | En 2024, les groupes socioprofessionnels des ouvriers et des employés sont très peu mixtes : 80 % des ouvriers sont des hommes, 76 % des employés sont des femmes.
Le site de la nomenclature pcs a été mis à jour.
Pour le bon lien, merci @xmolenat.bsky.social !
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The Asiancy

@theasiancy.bsky.social

3 months ago

All that glitters: Trump touts 'Gold Card' The program would grant permanent legal status to work and live in the U.S. to those willing to write a seven-figure "gift" to the government.

1 million $ Trump Gold Card, The payments would essentially transform the existing #EB1 and #EB2 visa programs for people who exhibit #extraordinary” or #exceptional” ability in their #professions. #Applicants for those #visas previously had to #CompileAndSubmitEvidence of their #talents to qualify.

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Dr. Ellen Fink-Samnick DBH, LCSW, CCM, CCTP, FCM

@drel-dbh.bsky.social

3 months ago

My latest blog is a #CallToArms for all healthcare #Professions devalued by the Department of Education Proposal..#CollectiveAction #WeAreProfessionals @robincogan.bsky.social @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @aptaofficial.bsky.social

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Genainimals

@l-eey.bsky.social

3 months ago

If every animal had a profession, I imagine the mouse would be a secret messenger—cute, clever, and a bit quirky!
Of course, if it were in ancient times, things would be different. #chineseZodiac, #Animals, #Professions, #GenerativeAI, #Mouse.