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Pedro Coronel (Mexican, 1922-1985), Sin título [Untitled], 1978. Oil and sand on canvas, 199.6 x 100 cm.

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Cindy Sherman Untitled #311 [Horror and Surrealist Pictures] 1994

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Easy by Joanna Newsom from the album Have One On Me.

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Gan Chin Lee (Malaysian, 1977), Status Anxiety VI, 2010. Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 106 cm.

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(taken from a post about AI)

speaking as someone who has had to grade virtually every kind of undergraduate assignment you can think of for the past six years (essays, labs, multiple choice tests, oral presentations, class participation, quizzes, field work assignments, etc), it is wild how out-of-touch-with-reality people’s perceptions of university grading schemes are. they are a mass standardised measurement used to prove the legitimacy of your degree, not how much you’ve learned. Those things aren’t completely unrelated to one another of course, but they are very different targets to meet. It is standard practice for professors to have a very clear idea of what the grade distribution for their classes are before each semester begins, and tenure-track assessments (at least some of the ones I’ve seen) are partially judged on a professors classes’ grade distributions - handing out too many A’s is considered a bad thing because it inflates student GPAs relative to other departments, faculties, and universities, and makes classes “too easy,” ie, reduces the legitimate of the degree they earn. I have been instructed many times by professors to grade easier or harder throughout the term to meet those target averages, because those targets are the expected distribution of grades in a standardised educational setting. It is standard practice for teaching assistants to report their grade averages to one another to make sure grade distributions are consistent. there’s a reason profs sometimes curve grades if the class tanks an assignment or test, and it’s generally not because they’re being nice!

this is why AI and chatgpt so quickly expanded into academia - it’s not because this new generation is the laziest, stupidest, most illiterate batch of teenagers the world has ever seen (what an original observation you’ve made there!), it’s because education has a mass standard data format that is very easily replicable by programs trained on, yanno, large volumes of data. And sure the essays generated by chatgpt are vacuous, uncompelling, and full of factual errors, but again, speaking as someone who has graded thousands of essays written by undergrads, that’s not exactly a new phenomenon lol

I think if you want to be productively angry at ChatGPT/AI usage in academia (I saw a recent post complaining that people were using it to write emails of all things, as if emails are some sacred form of communication), your anger needs to be directed at how easily automated many undergraduate assignments are. Or maybe your professors calculating in advance that the class average will be 72% is the single best way to run a university! Who knows. But part of the emotional stakes in this that I think are hard for people to admit to, much less let go of, is that AI reveals how rote, meaningless, and silly a lot of university education is - you are not a special little genius who is better than everyone else for having a Bachelor’s degree, you have succeeded in moving through standardised post-secondary education. This is part of the reason why disabled people are systematically barred from education, because disability accommodations require a break from this standardised format, and that means disabled people are framed as lazy cheaters who “get more time and help than everyone else.” If an AI can spit out a C+ undergraduate essay, that of course threatens your sense of superiority, and we can’t have that, can we?

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so tired of hearing abt ppl's inner children. Abort that thang

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Louise Bourgeois To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere letterpress color lithograph 1999

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PSA:

As it becomes increasingly clear that Kamala Harris will be the Democratic candidate for President, we will no doubt be deluged with a new type of psyop known as information. Examples of information may include:

Her policy positions

Quotations she said and the context in which she said them

The impact of her decisions on other people's lives

Stay vigilant! Remember that if the information has not been properly vetted by the Harris campaign, it is not Official Propaganda and is not to be trusted!

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Gustav Klimt Garden Path with Hens 1916 Oil on canvas destroyed by fire, 1945

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being gay kind of has a Duolingo skills tree, the skills in question are Meeting Other Gay People and Taking It Up The Ass. and you can only maintain your streak cooperatively. we are dealing with a condition you are born with, here, something inside of you and inherent like the color of the sky or the temperature of the water in the kettle. but you can be as you as you are and when you walk outside the next day and mention you're gay people are still gonna assume you're a sex freak, unconsciously or otherwise. ironic, because you don't know anyone you would even practice the Taking It Up The Ass skill with, and it's not particularly safe to hire conversation partners from Grindr. for my life at least (and not even just in reference to being gay & understanding that so late) there's a lot of self-development you can achieve only through conversation

back when first having my Gay Awakening i confided the most in my brother and Min. i love my brother, but he IS a straight guy, and whenever i would express something along the lines of "i feel like i have a lot to figure out about my identity, i want to make more gay guy friends" he would say: "why? only you can define who YOU are, you have to do that alone." he would kind of imply i was wasting time... in comparison i expressed something similar to Min once and they said, "yeah, that makes sense, i've had similar experiences and i haven't regretted reaching out to people." i'm very grateful that i had that conversation with Min

arguably i WAS wasting time because i was about to finish college and move to a foreign country. it seems like there is always something more important to do than to be gay, right when you are about to queen out you remember there's a pile of dishes you need to wash. but even if my life fell apart and i lost every single friend i had and i got deported back to the US i would still be gay... i think it's worth talking to people about

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the day crouton.net goes down its actually over

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you guys are all so funny tonight haha ;)... *let’s the strap of my dress fall down my shoulder*

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alas

it seems sometimes

as if

the only evidence we have of who we are is what we do