Literary critic in a library. Egoism and the avant-garde. Anarchistique. Views all my own.
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I get it, but that's the wrong standard. A bit like saying "I'd love to sit in on a first-year maths class where all the students get all the questions right first try!" That ain't it, ahy. If you're going to assign a standard that the laziest student will meet it's already over
In my own first year of uni I was assigned A Fringe of Leaves. I read about five pages. I hated it. I went to the lecture though, so I came away with a cursory understanding of White, of Elizabeth Fraser, and a bit about the novel. Later, I read Voss and loved it.
So many education problems flow from the "everyone needs to get a HD/A" bullshit. Most students should pass. That means they need to get about 50% of the available marks. It's fine if they skim a few readings and don't do super well that week! Yeesh! Come on, folks!
The other point (which Australian universities either don't understand or don't care about) is that ATTENDANCE MATTERS. External and pre-recorded content is a poor cousin to lectures, which should have minimum attendance standards (even if Zoomed)
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So there we have it. Segal's new report openly accuses progressives of being the main vector of antisemitism in society. The corollary: the left and its calls for justice and equality must be defeated.
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Day 34 of tweeting "AI is Just Software" every day until people stop perpetuating a legally-useful delusion on behalf of giant corporations
A step in the right direction in my opinion, though I lack confidence in the process of establishing what it costs to deliver a good education and in the willingness of uni executives to use that funding for the purpose.
futurecampus.com.au/2026/10/…
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The discourse has focused on student usage of AI but it is educators who are using AI undisclosed on students that truly concerns me. We have an ethical obligation to be transparent about what tools we are using and how they’re being used. I fear we’ve forgotten this.
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A reminder that Deep Vellum is HIRING! See the full job description on PubLunch or our site, and make sure to apply before November 4th.
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Important detail in the WSJ piece on Harvard great books course: "It’s also a lot of work. The professors all attend every lecture and must lead seminars on books they may not have previously read, and from other disciplines. Essentially, they are students too." @second_sailing
Seriously, reading a book a week for a subject was standard in virtually every literature degree in the English-speaking world for decades. Either the students have gotten stupid (they haven't) or the education system is failing our communities (hint: it's the second one)
That was "elite" but bare bones education. The one subject that didn't have 8 books that I can think of was Anglo-Saxon, because you were translating the Bible and The Dream of the Rood every week. Universities killed that sort of education in a single generation.
And now a generation refuses to accept that it existed, that it's possible, or that it's good. That's villainy. Students should be up in arms about the birthright that's been denied to them!
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"Several bestselling Big Five authors say their relationships with publishers have suffered over the past year due to AI use...
....One bestselling author says they received marketing copy that included AI-hallucinated quotes from their book, but the publisher insisted they were not AI-generated. “I was gaslit on all of it,” the author says.
During a recent round of contract negotiations, another bestselling author says they could not get a single Big Five publisher to promise no AI would be used in any way on their books."
Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers. buff.ly/eIHTMUa
