I wrote about the rhetoric of the “reading crisis.” Whether or not fears are founded, the rhetoric essentially works by inducing the kind of reactionary Fox News-y affect—self-pitying-but-self-aggrandizing—that “literate” folks often think themselves immune to pghrev.com/reactionary-...

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Cleaning up an email inbox for a user that just left the company and-

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The TL;DR: "Can you believe an editor told me that my writing sounded like AI? I had already done ten drafts with Claude and other LLMs. Sure, I spend hundreds of hours on LLMs, but I'm sure it hasn't affected my writing voice. What's the big deal?"

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You do realize that the purpose of academic writing is not to just produce something that's written, but to communicate the thoughts behind the words that end up on the page, right? Like, the action of writing facilitates the thinking that then produces the writing. You know that, right?

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