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“I feel it in my work as a teacher, where I recognize that we are so close — so, so close — to a world where teaching looks like AI-generating lesson plans and delivering those lesson plans using AI-generated slides, and then assessing the skills of those lessons using AI-generated tests, and then grading those tests using a form of AI. The content of AI producing student work that is then fed back to AI for AI to assess. And for what? And at what cost? It pains me. It pains me deeply. And then I sit down and I read about clams. And it’s not just that I am reading about clams. It’s that I am reading the perspective of someone who thought that it was worth paying attention to clams. There. Remind me again why we read? I think that’s part of it. You pick up a book and someone has you by the arm. There, they are saying, look over there. They are pointing now. They are holding something in their hand. Little clam in the palm, refusing to open. Look at that thing that loves being alive, how it resists the same sun we turn our cheek towards. Crazy world, beautiful place. Down in the deep somewhere, a clam smaller than my hand is withstanding the pressure of a few dozen full-size trains just hanging out on top of its body.”

What I enjoy the most about Count Binface’s candidacy in the Clacton by-election is that he’s not there as a joke candidate to turn a serious election into a farce. The by-election was a farce already thanks to Farage’s action. Count Binface being the only opposing candidate is just him and the other political parties going «you made this into a joke, Nigel, so we’re going to make sure the joke’s on you». In other words

The point is that Farage is doing this to hold up a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy in the face of investigations into his own and Reform’s finances. «See, the people still want me in parliament, even if the establishment is against me.»

Fun fact, in my native language there's at least thrice as many fics with them and I think I know why.