At least ChatGPT turns its work in on time smh smh

Well lads, I have lost it with teaching. Just completely lost it.

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If one or two students take shortcuts at the end of the spring semester, fine. It happens, and you pretend not to see it. Still, this is more than one or two students, and what's going on is much more concerning than a bit of casual cheating or plagiarism. I'm not sure what to do except throw all the papers into the air and go on holiday early.

The Dangers of Public Scholarship

I was invited to participate in a roundtable panel on public scholarship at this year's Comics Studies Society Conference. I opened a blank document to list some talking points, and suddenly a thousand words of intense negativity appeared. This is what I wrote...

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...but of course I would never say any of that out loud. I think what I'm going to do instead is be very quiet, smile a lot, and agree with other people. If I say anything, I think it might be good to emphasize that the work involved in "public scholarship" might be more appropriately directed toward networking and finding paying job opportunities outside of academia.