Godspeed, Comrade

If I can get a sympathetic response from my team member in charge of tech integration in classrooms, then clearly others are thinking this way too. I may have just convinced myself over time that I was the only one in the room thinking this way.

Yeah but don’t delude yourself here. It is statistically unlikely you reach a critical mass here for it to matter. You seem to care about your job, which is good and all, I wouldn’t bet on everybody else there doing that. Most people are in it for the paycheque and they use the path of least resistance, never realizing they could have an impact if they cared - and I do not mean this as an insult. It’s a job. You do this shit for ~8 hours and go home to live your actual life. You seem to see this differently, which is good, but it’s a walk on the knifes edge.

There isn’t going to be the marxist revolt at your job because you’re the most convincing communist ever, not how it works. Maybe you can salt the earth, sure, but the scenario you described here is too close and too much right now for that to happen. That’s more of a 5 year plan - do keep going at it. And even then just by design your institution will not be the holdout from the superstructure.

Sorry if that’s a bit depressing, but you gotta grapple with reality. Now’s the time to lib out, honestly. Incremental change and all that. Change the System from inside. Do what you can, but don’t overplay your hand here. Saving 5% of people from the AI brainrot that kills your critical thinking instantly, in this scenario, still beats saving none. Your best option is to machiavelli this shit. You’re free to yearn, advocate or fight for a better future at your job and outside of it, but it takes time that you do not have currently. Now is the time to play politics as inscribed by your institution and make the most out of it. Sound a few dogwhistles along the way. You said you’re not a director, whatever bad shit happens isn’t your fault. Make the difference you can, but pick your battles. Save 5% of people and still be able to sleep at night.

and also, if going by previous post, they’re all full of all politics of everyone who ever wrote anything for star wars

moralo eval

This is turning the dial to 11, then past eleven breaking the knob off, then back to eleven. This fucks so hard.

There’s a very clear distinction here between jowling kowling rowling doing it out of ignorance and spite and George Lucas’ doing it out of ignorance and admiration

One, I suspect totally unintentional, thing I kinda like about the Star Wars world building, is it seems like most alien species are a bit “whatever” about all the political shit the humans are getting into.

Never get into the old expanded universe

Pff, I got white privilege. I get the kind of endless subclassifications of my “race” or ethnicity last seen in 1890s colonial eugenicists, today. Black is a a catch all term, I ain’t a boer though.

Even then it sucks. Tyres are pneumatic, they shift shapes a lot depending on bumps and centrifugal forces and such. This is usually a problem you can ignore entirely, except of course when you go for that 1 picometer tolerance.

This sits at exactly the point where it feels like it runs fine-ish most of the time but also just grinds away your seatstays

About that fixie life*

*Applies only to flywheels, not to seatstays

The issue that I’m struggling with is that I can identify these issues, see these systemic problems, chart a path toward the larger problem it is going to create down the line, yet I can’t articulate how to mitigate these issues at our level, or struggle to identify appropriate next steps.

You’re not going to solve systemic issues that plague society as the educational IT Professional. It’s the old tale, as a a marxist you gotta have two opinions on everything, one is how to fix it, the other is how to deal with it in the now. How can you advocate for harm reduction here? What’s possible for you to do to make it less bad?

If I had to take a stab at it from your description, I’d argue that not letting students use AI, ever, will not work out, not even in the students favour - as you said. Can you propose maybe that the testing and such is diversified? Tasks or projects with clear allowance for AI, but other tasks - mostly monitored in classrooms I’d guess - that ban AI? Contextualize the Google part as a part of the world, but not the only future, show alternatives? I don’t think this’ll save more than 5% of people, really, but at least it saves 5% and lets you sleep at night

Thank you, scholar. How do you explain that for millenia, people have looked at hedghehogs and thought “be sick if this was faster”?

Example A from the Middle Elamite Period (~1300 BC) in what is now Iran

Example B from the eternal 70s in what is still Japan as of time of writing

and he donated $2,500 to both sides after October 7th and the subsequent reprisal.

Distilled Pro-War Move. Literally just fanning the flames. I just hope everybody shoots each other

I don’t think this is a specifically IT-Problem, this is an HR-Problem. In an organization of any given size they’re not gonna be able to comprehend the details of whatever they’re recruiting at all. How would they?

But at the same time, HR is the cops of the corporate world, so it givess you major brainworms. You figure you’re qualified to recruit anybody, I mean, you’re HR! We’re fucking HR, all we do to pick candidates is at best do astrology but it is so, so important and since we’re job-cops we have the red telephone to the CEO. Sure, you might think “guy who worked with a ticketing system that’s 2% off what we use” would be a great fit, but luckily we here in HR are there to state that since this isn’t 100% what we’re looking for, no. Also we’ve given a report to the CEO that among the unwashed masses upon which we spit, there isn’t a single qualified applicant as based on matching keywords in their resume. Sorry, boss, maybe drum up the “work shy” rhetoric some more? We love you and that will help us a lot, there’s just too many bad people, dangit!

In the sense of it’s weird that the Marxists are the only people left concerned with how an organization works, if you are a CEO and trust your HR you have failed at your job. These are still just your employees, they don’t give a fuck. Left to their own devices they will implement the worst application progress known to man, because it means they can just tell you the aforementioned lies. You should treat them as a hostile entity to your enterprise, but they do also fire people, so they get special privilege.

I’m partial to Irish Mob and Outlet Mall Special Ops

It’s stolen from god knows where but the old adage holds true, there’s 4 distinct powers in a western democracy that keep each other in check, the legislative, the executive, the judiciary and the soviet union

but at present they don’t have automated systems that quickly identify and find every instance of something like this.

My point is mostly they don’t have to do the impossible and single out one guy who routes his laptop via third country to the DRPK, my point is that you either find the guy going on cannonball runs all his life or alternatively the aforementioned sheboygan hotspot of remote worker connections to tech companies all coming from hostile countries

so I’ll not take the idea that hitler, among other things, wasn’t a cheesemouth, lying down

Fully convinced both Macron and Merz snort fucking conga lines but a real cokehead would never break out the baggie in the presence of somebody like Keir Starmer

Either the DPRK has a really dedicated network of laptop spies that go otherwise unnoticed by the panopticon somehow and spend all their time as cross-continental drifters or there’s like 20 VPN tunnels of employees all working for tech companies that ends up in the greater sheboygan area as defined by what one person could reasonably do in a week and neither of those feel realistic honestly

I just realized I was going more for layers on layers of bean permutations as per the question but didn’t make that clear, so Dal absolutely counts and now that I see it I want to add Mercimek