Below are posts associated with the “mcsweeneys.net” source.
🔗 linkblog: New AI-Generated Content Derived from Your Work Posted on Academia.Edu
I guess I should be reading this for the jokes, but I hadn’t realized Academia.edu had done this, and I’m so angry at the inspiration for the jokes that I haven’t made it any further.
🔗 linkblog: The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
As a committed em dash user, this has been bugging me since I heard about it.
🔗 linkblog: Open Letter to the Guy with “Dad” in His LinkedIn Headline
Bookmarking this so I can keep thinking about it.
🔗 linkblog: Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations'
Laugh to keep from crying.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Is Just Threatening to Do Something Stupid as a Terrible Negotiation Tactic'
Bookmarking this in case I need to show it to a family member.
🔗 linkblog: Normalizing Indian Hate Makes Me a Good Father and Husband'
McSweeney’s pulls no punches, but Vance has earned no mercy.
🔗 linkblog: Gender Is Determined by God, Biology, and the Highest Governing Body of Some Random Sport'
Listen, The Onion is great, but sometimes McSweeney’s is where it’s at.
🔗 linkblog: A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester'
McSweeney’s content on academia is always darkly hilarious, and this is no exception.
🔗 linkblog: I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee'
McSweeny’s strikes again.
🔗 linkblog: What France and America Know About Each Other'
This is clever, spot on, and sometimes hilarious.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It'
This is a darker version of some of the thoughts I had when I first heard about the “PhD comparison.”
Before you click through to the article, I also want to use this short post as a complaint that I don’t think “intelligence” is a thing—and that PhDs certainly wouldn’t be a measure of it if it were.
🔗 linkblog: I’m the Word “Utilize” and I’m Loving Every Moment of Your Overblown Rhetoric'
I love this article precisely because I hate the word “utilize.”
🔗 linkblog: We Are Not a School—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team'
I don’t know if I love or hate that McSweeney’s has so much content for academia.
🔗 linkblog: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Academia When You’re Six Raccoons Living in a Fjällräven Parka'
I really ought to be reading more McSweeney’s.