Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with current “Very large numbers of Americans live in big cities, that’s one of the main reasons why they are big, you see, it’s just, like, science man”, discourse, with real Census data and everything.
The long-sought pinnacle, the very apex, of a well-rounded education, the platonic ideal of the life of the mind, is to become a full-time fact-checker and nonsense-detector for devices that extrude plausible-sounding slop for the benefit of people who are trying to get away with something.
AI Slop “content” package (an advertising vehicle) appears in the Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere. Summer Reading list includes mostly real authors with mostly confabulated titles. Recipes include quotes from an imaginary food anthropologist at Cornell. Also an imaginary nutritionist and her imaginary book.
Viable Post-LLM Pedagogical Strategy:
– In-person, active learning only
– One-on-one instruction
– Examination via practical tasks
– No lectures, just enigmatic remarks
– Classes offered only in Swamp
– Breaks for intensive physical exercise
– Hit obstreperous droid with walking stick
Nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time.
Nature reports that the NSF has stopped funding awardees entirely, “until further notice”. This administration is determined to destroy the country’s scientific research infrastructure by choking off funding and taking a wrecking ball to the merit review system.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
I like how if you are discussing some large amount of money via text—like, a house price, or a federal grant or something, it doesn't matter—and you write out the number, then no matter what the number is Apple Pay will helpfully pop up and be like Hey! You need to send this cash to someone???
