“We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing number of the people we’re teaching are not real. We’re having to have these conversations with students, like, ‘Are you real? Is your work real?’” Maag said. “It’s really complicated, the relationship between the teacher and the student in almost like a fundamental way.”
Nosferatu, 2024 - ★★★★
Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.
On TikTok and YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, paranoia circulates freely because it seems easier to indulge in a smaller, more private version of reality with fellow travelers than to come to a shared consensus on why everyday life feels so awful. There is a banal truth in what conspiracy theories offer to their adherents on these platforms: They arise from the powerlessness to enact change in life on a collective or individual level, and what emerges, then, is a feverish hunt for explanations.
A predictable result when using the new AI reality:
Perhaps the biggest takeaway, however, was that prolonged usage seemed to exacerbate problematic use across the board
Finished reading: Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito 📚