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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

  5. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

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    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

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Meet some of the American dead

Courtesy of Jimmy Breslin, who also notes:

“Printing as many names and as often as possible is a gloomy task. These are the deaths that the president and his people try to sneak past the country. The dead were brave men. The president is craven. He buries the war, and the news reporters, indolent and in fear of authority, follow like cattle going into pens. For so long, the public believed the news it was given. Saddam Hussein was going to blow us up with an atom bomb! The Muslims of Iraq love us!”

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