The power of AI to transform numerous fields of our society is not in question. How it will transform those fields is what the debate is all about.
Who would have thought a 1992 book by a writer who described himself as “a fat old asthmatic Glaswegian who lives by painting and writing” would be in the mix for Best Picture in 2024?
The California Faculty Association leadership failed its members, miserably.
With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my bones and my stomach was knotted.
Since my early youth I always compared the homes and neighborhoods of people in my blue-collar social network with those more privileged.
I’ve gotten physically assaulted by anti-trans psychos twice in the last few months, but… like the limo driver in The Big Lebowski, I can’t complain.
The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.
We must not forget this passionate educator and inspirational fighter for social justice whose legacy would be all too eagerly elided by institutions of power in higher education.