Observation after hearing from colleagues today: even if you explicitly state in your syllabus that students may not use GenAI, the students are attuned to the institution's AI boosterism - often framed as "responsible uses of AI" - and that institutional messaging overrides faculty's stated policy.

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BREAKING: We're urging the court to deny Trump's renewed bid to shutter the Kennedy Center Trustees were told staying open would double the cost to $300M+. The Center's own construction manager said otherwise, & trustees never saw it DDA & WLG stand w/ @repbeatty.bsky.social -TN

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but the whole goddamn premise of trek--yes, including TOS--is that with science, reason, teamwork, faith, honesty, openness--all those old-fashioned liberal virtues--you can overcome these horrifying obstacles, overcome violence, overcome war and destructions

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The National Library of Medicine has stopped indexing articles from Scientific Reports in MEDLINE because the journal’s inclusion in the world’s largest biomedical library is under review, Retraction Watch has learned.

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I think the future is people's interaction with the Internet is largely via telling an Ai concierge to collect information and perform tasks. Anything public will be scraped for the purpose. So eventually your Ai concierge will get the content you want via paid subscriptions.

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