Eryn// 35 // Trans Woman on HRT// She/Her // Bi // I luv cute things //
Went to a lil local pride event here in town. It feels so great to be able to walk around without fear, being my authentic self in a space FULL of others just being unapologetically themselves. 🌈
it’s so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn’t work and it’s a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn’t a good way to learn, because it’s not really “artificial intelligence” so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don’t want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn’t work. it wouldn’t synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn’t know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.
i think one thing that’s been really helpful in keeping myself from using it is thinking about Why i have to do the specific assignments i have. like what is the actual goal. like some assignments the goal isn’t “share a story about parenting styles in ur personal life” so much as it is “show you understand the concept of parenting styles thru a story”. or it’s not “how do hormones impact teenagers’ decision making abilities” it’s “can you understand, reword, synthesize, and explain the information in the text and videos to explain how hormones impact teenagers’ decision making abilities”. and looking at it as “this assignment is asking me to read some words and then understand and explain them, which is a skill i want to have” rather than “i have to answer these stupid questions that seem really obvious because all my professors want me to die forever” has helped. especially in a world where everyone uses chatgpt i want to know how to read with my own brain
I think of Bloom’s Taxonomy with this kind of thing :3c It helps me get past the stage of “ugh you KNOW i know this though, why do i have to do this?” Because, remembering is the lowest form on the triangle, and by that, it’s like the simplest. Everything higher needs the previous skills. Kind of a cool chart for what OP described above, the understanding, the rewording, synthesizing, all these other skills that are being checked besides knowing/remembering.
(I personally can’t fathom why someone would go to college to outsource even the most basic steps of learning to a predictive slop machine, even as someone who skipped more assignments than I should have in my first years of uni. To me, it seems like they’re wasting their 10 minutes and at the end the true work of the assignment isn’t even done bc the prof wouldn’t like. know if they’re meeting the content or taxonomy level goals???? but what do i know)
Reblogging this. Remind me in five years when I’m a teacher that I need to be mindful of what and how I teach.
I’m doing group work in many of my courses and recently my group partner came up to me and said “you’ve inspired me to stop using chatgpt, I want to understand how it works” and I’ve never felt more proud of being mediocre at assignments
In another more serious topic, I would say that most of the current rise of white supremacy is not from nazis who hid all this time after WWII and are now showing up for some reasons, but it’s actually the United States exporting its own, very idiosyncratic idea of white supremacy to the world, much like the US exports all its culture and ideas good and bad (either intentionally or not), it also exports its own kind of racism.
Nazism was (by was I mean the 20th century version) a very specific ideology, not only with a fascist way of organizing the state and society, but also was focused on a very specific kind of nationalist hatred. Of course that Nazis hated other races but they really did not care about the “white” race or “Europe”, they only cared about the “aryans”, that is, the Germans. They hated Jewish people over all, but also they hated Slavs and other European people even though for Usamerican racist categorizations they would all be “white”. Again, yes, the Nazis were white supremacists, but their kind of supremacy was always about the “Aryans”, not specifically being just “white”.
The 21th century current wave of white supremacism, racism and far-right politics does not come from Nazi Germany, no matter how much they want to claim the symbolism, but from the US: the KKK and the Confederacy. The US kind of racism is the one that claims about a “white race” against other races (because of slavery and later segregation), this is why you see far-right propagandists talk about “white countries”, this is why you see such contradictions as Slavs with Nazi symbols or neo-Nazis supporting Israel. It’s because they’re NOT the ghosts of Nazis from the 1940s suddenly coming back to haunt the world, they are very, very much the result of the United States exporting its own racist worldview to other fascists.
This is not to say that they are that different though, after all both Nazism and US white supremacy always found concordances with each other. I’m just saying that we are not dealing with Nazis marching with panzers this time. We are dealing with the ghosts of the Confederacy, with the ones that said “segregation forever”, with the sons and grandsons of Klan members, who now have found an international audience to their ideas because of US influence over the world.
