March 25, 2026

PROF ALLOWS STUDENTS TO USE AI FOR ESSAY; THEY MOSTLY DECLINE. And (at least the honest ones) had some fairly thoughtful reasons why:

Anxiety was one dominant theme. Students reported choosing the traditional assignment because they feared they would mess up using AI and get punished for cheating. Students also said they were nervous that AI would give them wrong information or lead them to fail to meet the assignment’s expectations or make them sound robotic. “I feel like AI gives me ideas and phrases that sound too fake,” as one student put it.

Posted at 3:04 pm by Robert Shibley

NEXT!

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Mark Normand Forced Netflix to Admit This Inconvenient Truth?

The sly stand-up comic traffics in the kind of stereotypes that can get a fella canceled. Or, at the very least, chase mainstream streaming platforms far, far away.

Yet “Mark Normand: None Too Pleased” just bowed on Netflix March 17, and there’s no Cancel Culture-type effort to punish him or the streaming giant.

It helps that Normand has an agreeable nature and cherubic face, both of which defang his incendiary gags. Plus, he expertly toys with stereotypes in ways that are uplifting, even fun.

His intent is always clear. He’s riffing on us without pushing anyone away, and the material is relentlessly first class. Normand works on a level few comedians can touch.

He’s that good.

The comic podcaster has another trick up his sleeve. He understands the power of cultural outrage and corporate cowardice.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

BULLIES GONNA BULLY UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S AMAZING WHAT A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN CAN ACCOMPLISH:

Tweet continues, “if they violate the law the Trump DHS will send their butts back home.” Much more like this, please. 

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

“SHOCKING” ONLY TO A MEMBER OF THE PRESS WHO’S SUPPOSED TO BE AWARE OF THIS KIND OF THING:

Posted at 2:01 pm by Stephen Green

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 25. “The Iran war continues, with attacks on energy grids and refineries across the Persian Gulf, (maybe) another bunker buster strike, serious regime confusion, countries reporting impending shortages, and part of the 82nd Airborne moving into the theater.”

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

ED MORRISSEY: More Stupid Media Tricks: Trump Kept In the Dark By Aides on War, NBC ‘Reports.’

After that, one would expect that the media might be humbled into at least a consideration that Trump knows more about this than they do. For NBC, however, that is precisely why they have to double down:

They said the videos are also driving Trump’s increasing frustration with news coverage of the war. Trump has pointed to the success depicted in the daily videos to privately question why his administration can’t better influence the public narrative, asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing, one of the current U.S. officials and the former U.S. official said.

And that’s what this story is all about. Trump made the Protection Racket Media look like a bunch of saps. Even worse, it exposed the US media industry as being invested in America’s failure if it also carries an opportunity to damage Trump. Having been exposed as water-carriers for the IRGC, now NBC wants to deflect from that revelation by painting Trump as somehow disengaged, isolated, and uninformed, which might just be the biggest case of projection since Thomas Edison invented the motion-picture industry.

Related:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

JUST REMEMBER THAT THE POINT OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL IS TO SPEND THE MONEY, NOT TO BUILD A RAILROAD, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE:

Somebody need to remind Andreessen that even if California does someday, somehow finish the project, the high-speed part still won’t reach Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Posted at 1:32 pm by Stephen Green

BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE: Loyola newspaper apologizes for calling suspected murderer an ‘illegal immigrant.’

OPINION: Loyola newspaper editors want you to know they are sensitive to the feelings of illegal immigrants who are accused of murdering one of their peers

As the Loyola University Chicago community grieves over the ruthless murder of an 18-year-old freshman, the campus newspaper is focusing on not offending the suspected murderer.

On Monday, prosecutors charged Jose Medina-Medina with murdering freshman Sheridan Gorman. Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly killed Gorman while the student was hanging out with friends at a nearby beach early on the morning of March 19.

Campus newspaper The Phoenix originally reported on the charges with an Instagram post titled: “Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved.”

The original post also referred to Medina as an “illegal immigrant.”

However, facing backlash, the student newspaper edited the post to remove the term “illegal immigrant.” The newspaper refers to Medina as a “Rogers Park Resident,” referring to the Chicago neighborhood where Loyola’s main campus is located.

Like college football teams running NFL-style offenses, the anti-journalism these kids are learning at school will serve them well when they’re hired into the ranks of the DNC-MSM.

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

EVERY SMALL BIT OF RENEWED SPINE HELPS:

Posted at 12:59 pm by Stephen Green

NO, THEY WANT TO MAKE IT TOO EXPENSIVE TO SELL THERE: Illinois Dems Want to Serialize Every Round of Ammo Sold in the State. “Even setting aside the constitutional violations, the proposal is wildly impractical. There’s no existing infrastructure capable of mass-producing serialized ammunition at scale. The entire scheme relies on microstamping-style technology that has repeatedly failed in real-world conditions.”

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

TRUMP NEEDS TO PUT THE SQUEEZE ON THUNE, GET HIM TO ACT LIKE A REPUBLICAN FOR A LITTLE BIT:

Posted at 12:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds