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Cognitive Offloading: LLMs in the Classroom(0)

May 24, 2025

Banning LLMs and their griftslop entourage in education isn’t a solution.

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“Thank you, Siri!”

A brief excursion into virtue ethics.

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri

Fascist Cultural Co-optation: A Curious Example

With a few strokes of the pen, you can turn your cultural heritage into supporting your fascist agenda.

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Ukraine Charity Bundle at itch.io

Paid products only, all download-ready, no external keys or other bullshit.

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An Old, Dank Pub

I was blown away by SMBC’s metaphor of liberal education as an “old dank pub.”

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John Danaher’s “Case Against Teaching”

This is the bleakest assessment of teaching I’ve read in a very long time.

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The Zombie Model of Cognitivism

The problem with cognitivism is not that it doesn’t want to die, it’s that is hasn’t noticed it’s already dead.

Iron Dome

This Was Not a Good Week

Germania est omnis divisa in partes tres.

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Opening Schools in Times of Plague

True to its nature as a fetish, schools demand the willingness to sacrifice.

HRC

Basically, There Are Two Kinds of Hillary Haters

Welcome to the Paranoid Circle of Delusions and the Deplorable Steam Train.

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A Band of Brothers and Sisters

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”

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“Meanwhile, in Space”

Unloading supplies onto the International Space Station.

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Resolutions / Vorsätze

Für das Jahrzehnt. Nichts für Zaghafte. / For the Decade. Not for the faint-of-heart.

Das Vierte

Transparenzgesetz: Große Mehrheit im Parlament für »Staats-Bierdeckelreform«

Apropos GEZ, GEMA, LSR, Telekommunikationsgesetz, Hartz etc. etc.

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Where @astefanowitsch Gets It Right (Again), or: The Logic of Dominant Discourse

The discourse about power within every discourse about gender is moved squarely into the dominant discourse’s blind spot by the latter’s own operational logic.

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Going Into Politics? You Might Want to Rethink that Undead Dreadlord of Yours

Except, of course, you’re on a Pirate ticket: then it’s not only okay, but expected.

What If

“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

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By 2179, Humans Still Haven’t Encountered a Species They Can’t Turn Into Coats, Shoes, or Handbags

From Alexander McQueen’s fashion collection “Plato’s Atlantis.”

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Christian Wulff, Politik und Pressefreiheit: Deutschland und seine Traditionen

Es scheint, als gebe es unter Politikern einen argumentativen Trend bei der Rechtfertigung von Angriffen auf die Pressefreiheit, der sich linguistisch beschreiben und kodifizieren ließe.