Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
The solution to AI cheating in the classroom cannot be buying into deeply flawed AI detection tools marketed by the same companies selling the AI being used for cheating in the first place.
Is this the Christmas Carol adaptation you guys were talking about?
My kids are watching the 90s X-Men and I can’t help but wonder if this iteration of Beast is intentionally partially modeled on Carl Sagan
The standard software package our students download includes a word doc with an automatic button at the top of every blank document to draft with AI
Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world
Why did no one tell me that David Hume looks like a bullfrog dressed up like a human to go on an unexpected philosophical adventure??
Great game, but clearly the font on Norway’s jerseys is the real winner here
I don’t think we should be en masse beta testing harmful technologies on the public
I will never experience the transcendent bliss my cat experiences from a properly proportioned cardboard box
Learning about Edgar Allen Poe's galaxy-level shit talking, and sad that he didn't live to see social media. Poe called Aristotle "Aries Tottle" and described him as coming up with ideas via sneezes. Poe also claimed that his poem, Eureeka, was a bigger deal than Newton's theory of gravity
There are ear worms and then there’s Tracy Chapman’s ‘Behind the Wall’. Every word engraved in my brain like a catechism.
Dickens really could write the ever living hell out of a setting
Thought I might check it out from the library, but every copy at every branch plus the ebook and audiobook are all currently on loan 😮
Autonomous vehicles don’t help with traffic, but public transit does!