Sobering article. Teachers feel they must limit writing assignments to classroom time, to combat AI cheating. The downstream cost: students aren't being asked to do longer-form writing anywhere. "Now she limits essay writing to the classroom, by hand, where students have little opportunity to develop longer, more complex arguments. The result, she admits, is that they may be unprepared for college-level writing. Even her best students’ “eyes would fall out of their head,” she said, if she asked them to write an eight-page paper. Her solution ensures that kids do their own work, but it may come at a cost. They lose the long, messy practice of learning how to compose at length and, some argue, how to think."

Teens are telling their therapists they don’t believe there will be a world left for them when they grow up My family therapist told me therapists are talking about this with each other because none of them know what to say I can’t stop thinking about that

historically, a PhD has served two purposes: (1) to train the next generation of researchers (2) to provide academics with a source of cheap labour with llms, professors won't need students for (2), and have no incentive to do (1) maybe we need a new job to make up for (1)

I have an idea for a new TV show. It’s about an English professor that travels through time correcting everyone’s grammar. It’s called, "Dr. Whom".

its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?