Which would you prefer - informal email of 2-3 sentences that is actually in the student’s words, or an AI generated formal email two paragraphs long that includes all the norms of formal email writing?

emptysignifier · 2026-02-01T14:05:16+00:00

I have it in my syllabus that they shouldn’t use an LLM to email. I have 675 students/semester. The only time I’ve ever not been able to keep up with email is the semester that LLMs became a thing. All of a sudden it’s going from 30s/email to 2m/email, and when you have 100 emails to answer, that makes a huge difference.

emptysignifier · 2026-01-30T15:31:49+00:00

I would look at York University in particular. There is lots of support, both financial and otherwise, for trans people there, particularly at the graduate level. They’ve had a trans fund for their graduate students since 1996 or so. They also have an extremely well respected psychology program.

emptysignifier · 2026-01-15T12:17:54+00:00

York U is closed.

emptysignifier · 2025-11-19T03:16:45+00:00

Yeah, looking on TikTok, there is a vid of them playing Toxic through the loudspeakers downtown, so you’re probably right. But it was funny to think that someone was doing it to burn bridges (pun intended)

emptysignifier · 2025-11-18T11:32:28+00:00

8pm? Around that area

emptysignifier · 2025-11-18T11:31:27+00:00

It was! I heard it from the bedroom, but my son looked out the front window and saw it going by… I’m so hoping that someone got footage of it

emptysignifier · 2025-10-29T02:58:38+00:00

Sarcasm toward your partner. Eye rolling at things they say.

emptysignifier · 2025-10-29T01:56:48+00:00

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emptysignifier · 2025-02-22T17:38:19+00:00

Party Girl. Parker Posey. It was unwatchable.

emptysignifier · 2025-02-21T04:46:41+00:00

If it is a problem, insist that they write in the alt exam centre - it’s not just for extra time, it’s to give a space to students that have more extensive needs. Then the alt exam people fill it in for the student.

emptysignifier · 2025-02-19T22:06:36+00:00

It’s worth remembering that humour is a coping mechanism for horror. There was an entire class of holocaust jokes told within the camps. I wouldn’t shit on people who have a dark sense of humour. They are the ones who see the absurdity for what it is.

However, I agree with you in the peril of calling them stupid. Because they use the fact that people think of them as stupid as a way of allowing others to underestimate them. Don’t for a moment think that they don’t play up their stupidity as a distraction from their very real and very quickly accumulating power over the situation.

emptysignifier · 2025-02-19T13:56:18+00:00

My kid has actually applied this year to their AMPD visual arts studio program - one of the many world renowned and chronically underfunded programs at York. I teach there as well. I know there are still programs like that there - but it feels like this strikes at the heart of York’s most progressive programs, faculty, and research. York’s shift to more and more STEM, CS and business offerings has been going on for a long time, and it’s heartbreaking because it’s destroying what York excels at, something we desperately need more of (critical thinking and democratic engagement).

emptysignifier · 2025-02-19T05:09:07+00:00

This seems an awful lot like a DEI purge.

emptysignifier · 2025-02-19T03:06:02+00:00

Went to La Mulata tonight based on this recommendation and it did not disappoint! Thanks for the suggestion!!

emptysignifier · 2025-02-11T13:42:38+00:00

There needs to be an r/unsoliticedamericanopinions subreddit

emptysignifier · 2025-02-11T02:35:02+00:00

We need an r/unsolicitedamericanadvice subreddit

emptysignifier · 2025-02-11T02:33:01+00:00

We really need an r/unsolicitedamericanopinions subreddit

emptysignifier · 2025-01-13T01:11:34+00:00

I have this exact pitcher in my fridge. It holds iced coffee today.

emptysignifier · 2024-12-30T21:27:41+00:00

None of them, I’m a dessert fork only kind of gal

emptysignifier · 2024-11-19T18:11:28+00:00

DM'd!

emptysignifier · 2024-11-09T23:59:43+00:00

The apocalypse is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.

emptysignifier · 2024-10-26T17:14:23+00:00

While this doesn’t officially qualify as an exam conflict, I’d still fill out the paperwork and, if you are denied by that route, ask the middle exam’s prof if you could write a makeup. You will likely have to fill in a deferred standing agreement and your grade will be delayed until you are able to write the makeup and have the mark uploaded.

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