Frank McCown

When adjusted for inflation, Harding faculty are paid $13.7K less in 2024 than in 2012. Most all 4-year private Arkansas colleges have experienced the same slump. Source: @chronicle chronicle.com/article/facult…

Harding's average 9-month salary of $71,736 is $2.1K more than the Arkansas average but $28.5K lower than the US average. Source: @chronicle chronicle.com/article/facult…

"I’ve decided... to say, definitively, that LLM-based AI coding agents have no place now, or ever, in generating production code for any software I build professionally." standupforme.app/blog/some-unco…

A lack of introspection is a scary thing open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

"Bloom, for instance, points out that empathy encourages tribalism and polarization: while a person might say to himself that he is empathizing with the downtrodden or marginalized, in fact, he is probably empathizing with his political co-partisans." christianscholars.com/hieberts-polit…

"...cognitive strain is at the core of the entire post-Paleolithic human experience. It’s at the core of all big ideas. It’s at the core of empathy, morality, ethics, notions of justice and human rights and religion and philosophy." chronicle.com/article/is-ai-…

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.

"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather." theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

I feel the loss as well ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Applying Wirth's Revenge to the "newfound democratization of programming" jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-re…

Study finds that folks embracing AI at work are burning out techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/the…

"Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand." nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-…

Heads up to the folks at @Adobe. "But we can imagine a world in which such prompts would be different. “If you need a summary, try…” might be a small step in a more helpful direction." christianscholars.com/save-time-with…

@Kaelan47 The American people you serve want to see the law enforced. We do NOT want you releasing AI-altered photos that deceive the public.

YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Take a bow, college sports. You are broken in almost every way possible. sports.yahoo.com/college-footba…

AI isn’t “just predicting the next word” anymore stevenadler.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-just…

WE'RE BACK! NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BOUND! FINAL | @Harding_FB 49, Kutztown 27 #GOBisons The title game is set! 📅 Next Up: vs. Ferris State 📍 Where: McKinney, Texas 🗓️ When: Saturday, Dec. 20 ⏰ Time: 3 pm CT #GOBisons Check HardingSports.com Monday for more information.

I'm glad I'm not the only one getting fooled... nytimes.com/2025/12/08/tec…