Jake Wright

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

This is so fucking lazy and stupid, to say nothing of the gutter racism we've come to expect. We have Aristotle today—FUCKING ARISTOTLE—because Islamic scholars translated Aristotle into Arabic. Algebra is literally derived from al-jabr. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám exists.

Today’s directed study featured discussion of: Miles Davis and The Complete Birth of the Cool Mean Girls She’s All That Hildegard von Bingen Doc Ellis Henry V’s St Crispan Day speech Jewish klezmer music Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill Alternate tunings used by the Goo Goo Dolls

When the pivot to AI is definitely going gangbusters:

Dear Students, I cannot overstate the degree to which it is necessary to put your name on your work. Love, Me

What happens when the autistic 6yo child of an ornithologist watches too much How to Train Your Dragon? She hatches an elaborate plan to harness and ride the vultures that hang out on the roof of her school.

This is the clearest signal yet that the cheesecakes must seize the means of production.

This is my Number One parenting hack. "Sure, buddy, I'd love to help you. Why don't you go get started while I finish this up and I'll be back in just a minute to give you a hand." Two minutes later, help is mysteriously no longer needed.

In fairness, the way you can tell this was probably a setup and not some pre-planned campaign moment is because Robert Barron isn't there.

Why does Payton Tolle look like @jakejustjake.bsky.social wearing one of those fake glasses and mustache disguises?

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

At my son's High School the news class did a story about AI made posters in the school and they were removed. There are kids there who want to make this stuff, fucking let them. Art is rad if you dont have a billionaire in your ear telling you to use his AI.

Then-State Senator Obama was the commencement speaker at my small college, so my Obama Number is two. Me => any number of college people but we'll go with the president of the college, Roger Taylor => Obama. FWIW, my Bacon Number is three, but I don't have an Erdös Number. Yet.

THIS IS ART

Currently in a meeting with representatives from NINE different initiatives.

I don’t support the Brewers, but I *do* support my Brewers-loving student who has tickets to Game 2 and is treating it like the once-in-a-lifetime High Holy Day the experience obviously is.

holy shit this guy rocks and maybe is the patron saint of Operations

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

As I often tell people, the dedication on my dissertation was very nearly “For everyone who said I couldn’t.“ “There is no fate than cannot be surmounted by scorn.” –Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

HOT TAKE: The president should not salute because the president is a civilian.

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He's probably up in heaven, saying "Holy shit, it's Maverick and Goose."

UMR is the kind of place that when a student stops by and you ask how things are going, they can say something like "a fungus ate all my T-cells" and (though it's obviously a huge bummer) it's not a wildly unusual kind of thing to say.

“The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.” Look. You work with Uber for Hotels. The WHOLE MODEL is risk transfer and you’re clutching your pearls over the transfer of risk? Get bent.

WHAT I WANT TO SAY ABOUT ELECTRONIC ARTS WOULD GET ME ON SEVERAL GOVERNMENT WATCHLISTS

My oldest is—and this is no exaggeration or overinflated parental bragging—arguably the smartest person I’ve ever met in terms of raw intellectual ability. There areas where they’ve tested ABOVE the 99.9th percentile.Public school has been a godsend.

This is just sitting in the middle of the floor in my classroom, and friends, I have questions.

This is just sitting in the middle of the floor in my classroom, and friends, I have questions.

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ST. LOUIS IS YOUR 2026 US OPEN CUP CHAMPIONS 🏆

Keelah se’lai, Mass Effect.

Imagine being so bad at your job you fuck up BIOWARE.

I've owned an Xbox since the 360 days. Owned two 360s and two Xbox Ones because the originals red ringed on me. Bought a Series X within two months of launch. I have Game Pass prepaid into basically Christmas 2027. My Fathers Day gift was a custom controller. Aaaand… nope. $1,800 is just nope.

What if, and hear me out here, this was some kind of federal agency for emergency management? A federal emergency management agency, if you will.

Yes, every individual use of our bullshitting text generator loses us money, but we'll make it up on volume!