Teacher: Global 9, IB History, YBK. Historical research: The Ashokan Reservoir, Religion's influence on politics. History, politics, Spanish, and food.
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Thinking about this today - the humanities are so important. Care about your HEART health (History, English (and other language), Art, Research, Teaching).
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Mallory Cairo retweeted
What saddens me the most about LLMs as an academic and teacher is that for thinking and writing, a little inefficiency is good. Some ideas percolate. Others you need to really chew. How can I still teach that? How can I keep working like that?
Musicians and artists are people who mine their emotions and experiences - the same things we dissociate on our phones to avoid - to create art that we can consume and decorate our time with... just let them be weird I guess
Mallory Cairo retweeted
The plan is to erase physical knowledge so they can monetize it.
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
Mallory Cairo retweeted
The world breathlessley reads a papal encyclical and enters anither week of hotly debating the Odyssey
Yet humanities programs are being closed all over.
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A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.'
The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
Mallory Cairo retweeted
The problem with AI isn’t marketing. It’s the product. Built by burning down our global cultural output & reshaping the ashes into a ghoulish simulacrum of creative expression. We must reject the strip-mining of our souls. The kids know this is impoverishment, not liberation.
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etymologically you can't have an AI essay because "essay" implies trying and AI can't try
Mallory Cairo retweeted
If you cannot loudly and firmly resist "humanoids" called Plato teaching our youth, you have no place in any movement that calls itself "classical."
It's time to draw some lines in the sand. I know which side I am on. Do you?
Mallory Cairo retweeted
AI is inevitable. You can tell by how no one wants it and it’s losing money left and right.
Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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One way you can tell these people do not go to church is that they have no idea what one 67-year-old lady from Redeemer Lutheran can fit in a station wagon. This is a 2/10 on the church potluck scale, not even trying that hard.
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“What he [the European bourgeois] cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the Blacks of Africa.” - Aime Césaire.
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“One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn’t do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity.” —MLK jr
