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Maybe twenty years ago, the alternative to my 100,000 crowd-sourced editors was a PhD expert, or Edward R. Murrow [*citation needed*]. But today, I’m not looking so bad, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teenager on the run from Interpol.

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

Tom Ellison

Here’s my list, because we all have to get down to basics: Be present. Unplug. Feel. Journal. Make art. Dance. Breathe through your nose. Make joy a priority. Connect.

Good Chemistry

Julie Holland

A cynic could easily argue that the core purpose of the humanities has become to provide the illusion of progressivism to deeply unprogressive institutions, helping them appeal to wealthy liberal students. Colleges usher in social-justice-warrior faculty through the front door while exploiting workers, piling up student debt, and wooing mega-rich donors in the back. Humanities professors often think we’re critics of academic capitalism and rarely pause to wonder if we’re its unwitting stooges.

The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic

Tyler Austin Harper

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