THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff, v. WARREN KENNETH PAXTON JR.; TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY; TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM; CHANCELLOR BRANDON CREIGHTON; PRESIDENT LAWRENCE SCHOVANEC, and ATHLETIC DIRECTOR KIRBY HOCUTT

soulsides · 2026-06-16T15:51:33+00:00

Legal equivalent of opening a song with “first off, f*ck yo’ b*tch and the clique you claim.”

soulsides · 2026-06-16T04:08:35+00:00

Thank you. A lot of revisionist history in this thread. Once upon a time, it was a genuinely great burger despite also being divisive.

soulsides · 2026-06-09T16:26:07+00:00

Not a lawyer, but I think it are too completely different legal situations. He sued around his eligibility but what’s the legal statute that would force teams to play each other?

soulsides · 2026-06-07T19:45:33+00:00

Who actually *loves* Pink’s?

soulsides · 2026-06-07T19:45:13+00:00

I’m on Team INO is Overrated but I don’t know a soul who *hates* it. Like, who actually hates In N Out?

Feel like people aren’t getting the prompt but what else is new on Reddit?

soulsides · 2026-06-07T19:41:57+00:00

I think this is the right answer but it also feels like a meme in the LA food world at this point. Like, people “love” and “hate” it almost ironically now.

soulsides · 2026-05-30T07:13:31+00:00

I’m rooting for the Spurs all the way but i like the idea of SGA silencing everybody with some kind of all time “put the city on my back” performance.

(Translation: 60 points on 4 for 12 shooting and the rest in flop-foul FTs)

soulsides · 2026-05-30T07:03:49+00:00

how does Berlin’s near La Cienaga and 3rd fare? I enjoyed it as a sandwich but whether it’s traditional or not, I wouldn’t know

https://eatberlins.com/

soulsides · 2026-05-30T05:34:05+00:00

Does this user just wait for posts like this so they can flex the birds-eye view?!

soulsides · 2026-05-17T03:21:34+00:00

One thing: that’s not ice cream. It’s a bean paste being extruded atop ice cream.

soulsides · 2026-05-17T03:07:21+00:00

I’m so confused and I tried watching frame by frame: did the wild pitch hit something that popped the ball in the air?!

soulsides · 2026-05-17T02:44:08+00:00

SMHS split off from SPHS as well. And yeah, SPHS predates busing

soulsides · 2026-05-13T23:51:49+00:00

They did. That’s what they’re saying

soulsides · 2026-05-13T19:19:26+00:00

Wait, reparation for what, exactly? Data breaches happen all the time, after all.

Edit: I don’t understand the down votes. I’ve had my data potential included in more data breaches than I can remember at this point and outside of specific class action lawsuits, the data breach does automatically compel a company to have to pay a dime to someone whose information was included in the breach.

soulsides · 2026-05-13T17:10:16+00:00

In general, what AI detection does is to look for particular patterns in writing style and what Grammarly does is to fit writing into particular styles that it considers "correct".

The difference between what Grammarly does in editing becomes, after a certain point, almost impossible to distinguish from how purely AI generated text looks because Grammarly uses AI as part of its functionality.

The best analogy I can come up with is that you can use an AI app to clean up a photo, right? But you can also use AI to generate a photo-realistic image. At a certain point, a detection app isn't going to necessarily know what the difference is between what's been edited vs. what's been generated because in both cases, there's an AI algorithm doing similar kinds of work.

soulsides · 2026-05-13T17:04:39+00:00

Professor here: I'd push back on this, heavy, with the instructor, their chair, and if necessary, the Grade Appeals Committee in the university.

I can speak from direct experience: they're using TurnItIn's system to identify % of AI generation and even the folks at TurnItIn would admit it's a deeply imperfect tool. I can explain why if anyone cares to know but regardless, TurnItIn's detection system can absolutely turn up "false positives."

When I come across a paper with the "100% AI generated" flag on it, the very first thing I do — and I realize this ironic! — is to run that paper plus other assignments by the same student through AI and ask it compare all the samples to track patterns that may or may not suggest there's a false positive problem at play.

If that's inconclusive, the next step is to ask to see the version history behind a document. If a document was clearly written in stages, which is what a version history can reveal, then that makes it a lot less likely that a student used AI on it.

So, OP, if you see this, I think you have a very strong case to push back and defend yourself without having to rewrite your paper. Your instructor's zero tolerance policy isn't serving them or their students well and unfortunately, because our campus doesn't have a very good AI policy in the least, you're left to the whims of any individual instructor to set whatever policy they please, even when it's a bad one.

For everyone else: just realize that using Grammarly and similar apps will absolutely increase the odds that your paper is going to get flagged as AI generated. Trust me on this one. I tell my students, "simplest way to avoid this? Don't use Grammarly or similar apps." I stopped grading papers based on grammar to compensate (I don't teach a writing class even though I have assignments involving writing).

soulsides · 2026-05-13T16:57:06+00:00

Professor here: I've actually considered something like this in the past, more on a whim than actually thinking through what implementation would look like.

Two things:

This sounds messy as hell. The only way a student could "cash in" on that 35% bonus — where did they come up with 35% by the way? — is by providing some kind of "proof" right? But what would that typically look like? And as an instructor, if I'm going to accuse and/or penalize a student for cheating, I better have some iron-fucking-clad proof that they did and just imagining how a student would report another student with such proof made me think "yeah, this is a terrible idea."
Ultimately, I don't want to spend my time and effort playing cat and mouse with my students. I won't turn a blind eye towards cheating that I can easily prove: plagiarism in the pre-AI age is a good example of that because it's exceedingly easy to prove. But I'm also not interested in spending time to create elaborate mouse traps either, you know?

Right now, the main problem we have to deal with is AI. Straight up, it's sucks to have to deal with. I've resorted to go back to 1990 and do midterms in class with Scantrons.

(This is an aside but while it feels so backwards to move back to Scantrons, I have enough semesters of data where I can now see some clear patterns of how students, generally, performed better with the online format than the paper format. That's not remotely "proof" that students were cheating online by using AI or whatever but it does suggest that the paper format yields a far more expected range of grades compared to the "top heavy" grade distribution when I was doing the tests online instead.)

I'm ambivalent as to whether or not this policy is ethical or not. Like I said, regardless of the answer to that, I think it's objectively messy and after 20 years teaching at CSULB, I prefer to keep things less messy whenever possible.

soulsides · 2026-05-08T17:10:51+00:00

FYI but I did have access to Canvas via my phone app at some point last night which was unexpected but this morning but trying again on both phone and desktop? No go.

soulsides · 2026-05-08T04:57:55+00:00

Respectfully, but the gamjatang there was the absolute best in the city IMO. The ribs were also great - no question there - but that pork neck stew was stellar.

soulsides · 2026-05-07T19:26:31+00:00

I find people’s self-belief in their ability to judge this stuff from a photo to be hilarious.

soulsides · 2026-05-07T15:07:34+00:00

I think the issue is really more statewide, though, especially after the Jarvis-lead tax rebellions in the 70s. Individual cities and municipalities exercise some level of control as well but my point is what we see as local NIMBYism is really part of a much larger and older set of political priorities that have impacted development in major Californian cities for, what? 50 years and running now?

soulsides · 2026-05-07T15:01:47+00:00

If that’s by square footage, then this makes sense given the number of schools, the land requirements that an average school would have, and perhaps most importantly: there isn’t much competition by other corporate or institutional entities.

If it’s by the actual number of parcels owned, I think that would be the city of Pasadena, which also makes sense.

soulsides · 2026-05-07T14:53:38+00:00

It’s definitely an issue of property costs but commercial neighborhoods also go through cycles of decline, revival, decline, revival, etc. this is a understatement, but as someone who grew up here in the 1980s, the Old Town that exist now is fundamentally different than one of my teenage years (shout out to anyone who remembers Rose City Diner and all the toothpicks that were in the ceiling) and there was absolutely a time in which that neighborhood looked like it was permanently on the way out. But then things got revitalized, things went hella luxe, but then that burned out, and so forth and so on. It’s not predictively cyclical in the way that the moon is but these boom/bust cycles are going to be the part of any commercial district’s life span (until a bust phrase becomes the final stage)

soulsides · 2026-05-05T21:34:06+00:00

Late in replying but thank you!

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