Cultural sociologist, researcher & Emacs dilettante. Lecturing sociology & research methods. Hacking on Emacs to hone my note-taking system. Posts in Dutch & English.
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This account about teaching (and grading assignments to gauge whether students learn to think) in times of LLMs resonates so much with my own experience.
“[W]hile AI is here, it certainly isn’t revolutionizing education and enhancing learning. It’s just making it extraordinarily difficult to do all the things that have been helping students learn for a very long time.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/
@kjhealy@mastodon.social Yeah but the really important question is: do you write your markdown in Emacs, the one true editor?!
Imagine a Venn diagram with two very small circles, with the smallest of intersections... This will only be of interest to a very particular niche, but: here is some code to launch the roguelike game Brogue from within Emacs via a transient menu:
https://gist.github.com/EFLS/8ff5d1e9784b32ad1dbd57d915ecffc0
@teoten@social.linux.pizza Ah, that explains a lot. I was checking the readme and didn't really get it. The dev readme is more interesting indeed