In flight entertainment is truly a smorgasbord of humanity. Person to my left: watching an Adam Sandler rom com. Person to my right: watching The Wire. Person in front of me: watching succession. Me: watching Carter center funded propaganda for Jimmy Carter’s development initiatives in Africa

The thing about being who you are is you’re that person everywhere, for example I now live roughly one train ride away from the aquarium and I still have not gone because while I yearn for fish, I’m also a cheapskate who hates leaving my house

In some sense I would say my home is an “ingredients household,” for example I put peanut butter straight from the jar on a chocolate bar instead of buying Reece’s

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Maybe the problem is not that students use the chat bot to write formulaic documents for highly codified genres, but that we have represented ourselves as technicians who produce better formulaic documents

For humanities programmes under threat, while of course such adoption is itself a threat.

I’m a bit nervous about the state of the field, not because I think chat gpt can meaningfully write, to the extent that this consists of more than writing smooth sentences, but to the extent to which the adoption of the priorities and values of VC firms seems to be viewed as a means of survival

And like no, most first year writing students aren’t using citation that way, but we are supposed to be helping them to see that aspect of it, too.

And similarly asking the chatbot for citations doesn’t support work on citation politics in the sense that all citations are citation politics- they’re a trace of the intellectual lineage in which you position your work