A less wild example I can think of is that someone that is antisocial and had their nose in books used to just be called an introvert or a nerd, but now such a person would probably accused of using escapism to avoid the real world. A harmless personality trait is now considered a concerning problem that an individual should be shamed for.

Not everything outside of reproducing and generating capital is cope.

  • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Comrades I have to report this attitude is… Getting worse and not just young folks.

    I teach composition in the university. The major journal for our profession, College composition and communication, just published an article with this astounding claim:

    . In the context of higher education, the presence of AI has intensified atmospheres of surveillance on college campuses (see McIntyre), including a reliance on AI detection software, a requirement of showing process work (i.e., showing document history in Google Docs), and an in-class restriction of computer devices

    Folks, asking a student to show their work is now surveillance. Btw, I should say, instructors demanding Google docs history are obviously gone too far (I write in markdown), but asking a student for process work as some kind of panopticon in a writing class where the goal should be understanding the writing process, not the final product is a totally cracked claim.