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~ Keri Smith || How To Feel Miserable as an Artist

~ Austin Kleon

The oceans will forget the shore.

Empires will become dust.

And still, somewhere in the silence,

love will remain.

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Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

Meet the Blackbirds; they are all relatives, and they don’t get along. They all want to be the best. 🏆👑

Each one of them has the same engines except for one. The.

TA 12 engines are slow. He has the J 75, not the J 58. He never went Mach 3.

The YF-12 is the toughest and meanest of the Blackbird family because it actually has weapons. However, he was not popular with the Secretary of Defense and did not get a contract. The YF 12 also did not have any spying capabilities, no cameras.

The MD 21 is also lacking cameras; it was not built to spy, but to launch a drone. The D-21 had an important but brief life.

The family's grandfather, the A-12, preferred to fly alone. But grandpa had a lot of difficulty getting everything done with only two hands. He had one special skill: he could fly higher than the rest of his siblings. Sadly, he was forced into early retirement after only one year of operational service.

SR-71 was the King of the air. The pilot had to concentrate on keeping his eyes on the black line while dealing with unexpected emergencies, such as losing an engine and being shot at by our enemies. His guy in the backseat, the RSO, handled the jamming, keeping the bird on track and helping run the checklist

The SR was very popular at first, but over time, the fighter-pilot mafia decided the super bird had to go.

So now all of these engineering marvels are in museums. See one if you can.

They are amazing.

Written by Linda Sheffield.

A-12 was the CIA’s bird. One of the drivers as they would call them One of them was my neighbor..Ken Collins. I was friends with his son Kent.

Can you imagine what Ken Collins thought when he signed up for a new above top secret project? They open the hangar and said this is what you’ll be flying!

The A-12 !

Ken said “it looks like a spaceship!”

Don’t you agree that the A-12 still looks futuristic today in 2026? I Do. 🫡🇺🇸🚀

Linda Sheffield