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“Education is a very intricate and complicated and subtle thing, but there’s something about it that’s also incredibly simple. It’s giving students an opportunity to read a text they might otherwise not do.”.

Any purported use or alleged benefit of AI in a university needs to be carefully weighed against what is already the undeniable cost: rendering our students subcognitive. @a_n_a_berg’s case against AI in higher ed:.

RT @BaskinJon: Here's a debate hosted by @interintellect_ where @a_n_a_berg offers a rebuttal to various proposals for (moderate) adoption….

“Any purported use or alleged benefit of the introduction of AI into university,” says @a_n_a_berg, “needs to be carefully weighed against what is already the undeniable cost of AI use, especially by students.” A simple case against AI in higher ed:.

Read it here:.

New online: a transcript of an @interintellect_ debate between @a_n_a_berg and @anecdotal on the place of AI in higher ed.

A new episode of Selected Novels, featuring Bruce Holsinger on John Williams’s “Stoner” and his new novel, “Culpability”:.

Read Martin’s essay about the fiction of a living, breathing—dare we say thriving?—Straight White Male Novelist here:

“I’m definitely in its cult,” Bruce Holsinger tells Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine of “Stoner,” discussed in the newest episode of Selected Novels:.

On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to Bruce Holsinger about the @nyrbclassics cult classic “Stoner”:.

RT @bobdenirofacts: "There’s no self, and this is tragedy; there’s no self, and this is comedy."

“A candidate who stands for something rather than against everything was so refreshing that sometimes that was all we needed to overcome the average person’s disinterest or suspicion of politicians.”.

RT @BaskinJon: Some uplifting stories from the New York streets in this @storyshaped dispatch about canvassing for Mamdani .

RT @notjessewalker: "When sovereignty itself becomes a commodity, no different than a mine or an oil field, how long until the nation-state….

Canvassing is not glamorous. It doesn’t inspire viral videos and the photo ops are minimal. Therein lies its importance, writes @storyshaped:.

A dispatch from @storyshaped on the exhausting, demoralizing, and immensely rewarding experience of canvassing for Zohran Mamdani: .

RT @BasharatPeer: Apoorva Tadepalli on @ZohranKMamdani I have to say I do love @thepointmag

“Approaching voters, rather than waiting for them to show interest on their own, is the definition of canvassing. It requires actually wanting your candidate to win.”.

“Many nights while canvassing I came home in tears exhausted, demotivated or humiliated, but not once did I feel the evening was wasted.”.

“Oh, they’re with a campaign! I thought you said champagne. Um, I don’t have time right now.” .