Literary critic in a library. Egoism and the avant-garde. Anarchistique. Views all my own.
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If you ask an academic what they are an expert in and they say "teaching" then they probably don't belong within fifty feet of a university
SOLT research is really "salting the earth" of the higher education Carthage, hey. Nothing good grows from colleges and departments where people pass off pedagogical thought bubbles as disciplinary research
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Students worry AI is about to kill their future ft.trib.al/aeFWjFc
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HE: A bull is just a male cow.
ME: False. "Bull" is a word to describe intact adult male of various bovine species.
HE: Intact?
ME: (with eyes glistening from fever) UNCASTRATED.
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Day 30 of tweeting "AI is Just Software" every day until people stop perpetuating a legally-useful delusion on behalf of giant corporations that are losing a tooooon of money
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This should be illegal.
The harms of this tech (enabling scams & fraud) obviously outweigh any potential benefits right now.
Politicians should outlaw this as a matter of urgency.
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Academics should get used to the idea that the parts of the internet we most value - preprint archives, journals, encyclopedias - don't have big cybersecurity budgets and might well not survive what's coming.
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The basic question I have for pro-liberals arts higher ed. reformers is this: where, exactly, is change going to come from? It’s certainly not going to come from administrators. Almost certainly not from faculty, either. And it’s not going to come from students or parents.
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🔥 🔥 🔥 Australian authors and industry reps fight potential copyright exemptions for AI theft.
“We cannot be so indoctrinated by tech exceptionalism as to believe the largest companies on the planet cannot possibly obey our laws.”
artshub.com.au/news/news/aus…
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It's so funny seeing everyone suddenly take this seriously now Torsten's on it - @arakharazian put it out nearly two months ago.
Here it is in my September 8 2026 concentration risk newsletter.
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Circularity in AI Shows Up in Token Spending Too
"Ramp data show that 80% of the top 1% of AI spenders are VC-backed, compared with only 13% of the median spender, suggesting that the circularity seen among AI hyperscalers and model providers also extends to token spending, as the startups buying the most compute are paying for it with venture capital rather than organic earnings, see chart below.
If the AI payoff is slow to materialize or never arrives, VC returns would come under pressure, since the capital funding today’s token spending would have little to show for it, and a pullback in venture funding could in turn weaken demand for compute." Apollo
IT'S ALL ONE TRADE REMEMBER
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AI - the next wave of American imperialism.
Google felled an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 trees in Finland for planned AI data centers, through its Finnish subsidiary Tuike Finland.
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Tell me you haven’t read Montesquieu without telling me you haven’t read Montesquieu, amirite?
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there's evidence that the use of AI in schools is delivering the opposite of "intellectual flourishing"—maybe in some bubbles the use of these models is leading to more reading and philosophical debates but I'm inclined to think that's an exception to the rule
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I'd prefer publishers focused on literary qualty, not politics, because they are mostly bad at the latter, better at the former. A huge % of excellent writers historically are not on or of the left, and I don't know why we'd want or expect them to be.
