I poured my all into this and today it hits shelves! Come for the dismantling of our obsession with victimhood & virtue-signaling and stay for the story about why a solid IRL community is far better than an online one. Cop, review, share. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

New York look like when the teacher leave the class for 5 minutes

THIS KNICKS RUN WOULDA SAVED MODELLS RIP GOATS THIS IS FOR YOU

All time great game. Hope all you watched it like me: on your phone while a three year old hogs the tv watching Dino Dex bc your wife is out at softball practice and left you w the kids.

My 36-year run at the Sun-Sentinel is over. Laid off for the first time since I lost my job as an ice-rink skate guard at 17. Cost-cutting move then, they said, too. I'm a month from 65, so please keep any sympathy for my newspaper friends who didn’t make it to the finish line like I have. I’m looking forward to doing some things I want to do so before the hall narrows and the light dims so you might not be completely done with me yet. Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun run.

english teachers recognizing ur potential is the kind of validation that stays w u forever

Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access. That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4. The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity. Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations. Each new GPT-4 essay added much less. The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas. Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge. Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained. This is the real danger of AI in education. Not that students will write worse. That everyone will write the same. * Full paper in the first reply

Jfc. Call us well done because we're so cooked.

For the final part of my series on the future of higher ed, I made a bunch of predictions. Bad news for most 4 year institutions, and almost all private colleges. Good news for community colleges. And why that doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all.

average high school homies on the 4 train uptown dynamic but one gets off on 86th st and the other at 167

Pa'que tu lo sepas!

A here from @DSzymborski on Mets (and Yankees) fandom

IN STEARNS WE TRUST

The call from the Hall 📞

shout out to some of my fav voices bringing fresh ideas into the discourse: @hpenatzer @BMStudebaker @TheAnnaGat @evelynquartz @RossBarkan @g_shullenberger @MattPolProf @Musa_alGharbi @johnmilbank3 @AntonioDeLoeraB @verdur_in @amir_naaman @ryan_zickgraf @ddhitchens @valerie_reads @moveincircles @matthewschmitz @AshleyAFrawley @Stsantek @SohrabAhmari @shadihamid @xsantiagoramos @manaafsari @default_friend @rojasrjuand @Perez_Writes @anecdotal @ClarkeMicah @justindeanlee @Ayishat_Akanbi @JustinEGiboney @DavidDudrick @JacobW982 @FavaleAbs @EsmeLKPartridge @borywrites @tradistae @AudreyPollnow @DavidSchaengold @Chris_arnade @NikosMohammadi et al!

Who said convicts can't go on book tour? Excited to be joining these bookstores by phone to talk about THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME with all these writers I admire. More info here: celadonbooks.com/book/the-tr…

Se non vi bastassero le vostre bacheche ridotte a dazebao per certificare il fallimento delle identity politics, posso consigliare un paio di libri: “Critica della vittima” di Daniele Giglioli (@nottetempoediz) e “Vittima” di @borywrites (@66thand2nd). Ne scrivo su @Robinson_Rep