UB English Studies

Auditions open to all. Tomorrow, Friday April 24th, 2-4:30pm on campus at the Performing Arts Building.
Send a message to the UB Theatre Company FB page if you need more info.

Congratulations to Judith Butler! Winner of the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award!

"Butler’s work gives us the highest levels of intellectual engagements offering deep insight in our understanding s*x and gender, race, religion and nation in contexts of struggle, conflict, and violence."

Read more: https://caribbeanphilosophy.org/frantz-fanon

Update: location will be FLG8, in the Writing Center!

Educational considerations...

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AI was supposed to free us from grunt work, but apparently what it's really doing is cranking out "workslop."

A study in Harvard Business Review shows that low-quality, AI-generated emails, memos, and reports are bogging down office life, wasting time, and bringing down workplace vibes.

In a survey of 1,150 US desk workers, 40% said they'd dealt with workslop in the past month, burning nearly two hours per instance. With average salaries factored in, that translates to $186 per employee per month, or $9M+ annually at a big company. And the reputational cost? Half of respondents said they view workslop senders as less capable, creative, and reliable (even though 18% admitted sending AI-generated content themselves).

Between slop-filled inboxes and MIT's finding that 95% of corporate AI pilots flop, the AI efficiency hype is colliding with office reality. As one researcher put it, AI can help you do work better, or it can help you fake doing 20 tasks at once while quietly offloading the mess onto your colleagues.

📸: 20th Century Studios