*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Somebody close to Solange tell her to include cartoonists too! Jackie Ormes, Ollie Harrington, etc. Of course, given issues with segregation and discrimination in the comic industry, this leads to questions on what to include during the curation process.

cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @savasavasava.blackskycomra.de I imagine that each new press release makes it harder and harder to finish your book, Chris! *melty face* *sobbing face* *melty face*

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THERE IS A GUY ON INSTA (well, TikTok, but I'm old, and thankfully he republishes on Insta) WHO IS RECREATING HAMILTON USING MUPPETS?

To my Gen-x women friends, a word of warning. DO NOT watch the new Lilith Fair documentary if you are experiencing perimenopausal PMS. Would you like to feel ALL THE FEELINGS ALL AT ONCE TURNED UP TO ELVEN BILLIONTY?

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Jesus H. Christ, this is a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot.

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling. These are human beings.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Reminder: THIS FRIDAY you can join @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social and I (along with some of the contributors) to discuss our new book, Of Many Minds! We want to hear from YOU! It takes place at 11:30am Eastern time, and all are welcome! bit.ly/OfManyMinds

“For students, the work they will do is unpaid.”

“The microschool will also serve as a beachhead for artificial intelligence-based instruction, says Parker, the superintendent, noting that with two instructors for 26 students they will need to rely on Khanmigo’s AI tutor for tailored instruction.”

"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth" www.vox.com/policy/46177...

Also made the connection today that the guy who made those delightful 21st of September videos, Demi Adejuyigbe, is on my fav streaming platform, Dropout!

Timeline cleanser: youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

You keep using the military to do the civilian jobs, & one day the military would say, “Hmm, I seem to be doing their job better than they do, why don’t I run the whole place?” It happened in many countries & we are no better than those countries.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I feel like this should be the poster/gif of the resistance.

33 years ago this month, the movie Sneakers hit theaters. 🕵️‍♂️💻 The studio even shipped a floppy disk press kit that reporters had to "hack" into for bios & production materials. www.mentalfloss.com/article/5029... 💾 Explore this rare relic on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Snea...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be opposed to a James Franco reboot. Back to the Sex and Violence pilot. bsky.app/profile/sepi...

Eventually every Freaks and Geeks castmember will do their own Muppets revival.

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

I love a NetGalley approval!! Super excited for this anthology edited @older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social. Thanks @sagapressbooks.bsky.social! I’ll be happily digging into this soon. 💙📚👀 🪐📚

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

on ongoing problem in cuyahoga county ever since i could remember. glad it’s getting attention.

@richardlabbe.bsky.social est-ce que Sortie de la zone revient bientot? :-)

Sincerely hate stunts like this with my entire being. Disappointed to see Massive Attack be the ones doing it.

So I thought Republicans were in favor of state's rights, and the reason we're dismantling the Dept. of Ed is because education and higher education is for the states and not for the Feds?

“Our theories are the first draft of reality.” — @ruha9.bsky.social Don’t forget to dream/imagine/theorize, especially in hard times #BookSky wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Hm. Was literally just this week teaching about the Bell Riots.

I didn’t know I needed to hear Cameron Crowe be interviewed by the NYT today and learn about his upcoming autobiography, but it was a balm, and now I remember it’s been too long since I haven’t re-watched Almost Famous (Untitled cut).

The daughter’s era of community college online experience has started auspiciously: the professor is 20min late for their first synchronous zoom session.

As he always has, Ziggy (the old man dog) has bounced back. He’s eating and drinking again, so…he’s going to outlive us all.

I forgot how f'ing expensive textbooks are. At least this one, Everyone's a Writer, is a pretty good one, so I don't mind as much...

I need a new project. Something that will a) keep me distracted and b) make me feel like I'm making a difference, however small.

Just got an email that the NSO will be performing a tribute Stayin' Alive at the Kennedy Center, which has circled back to being super-American, I guess? Disco that was too black and too queer to be tolerated once upon a time, on a soundtrack largely done by Australians?

If a Thieving AI Company Can Survive the Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough. Yep. (gift link!) defector.com/if-the-thiev...

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And centering them.

I appreciate that gmail can't properly identify emails from Google about my gmail/drive account as not being spam.

I didn’t realize that the algorithm will make you feel as guilty as a dog owner as it does as a new mom. It knows I’m a fancy dog mom, and wow does it ever work hard to make me feel like shit about how he’s being raised.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa. In this article from our archive, Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to Britain.

Imagine off-loading the responsibility of developing perspective, empathy, humility, listening skills, and self-knowledge to a machine that's incapable of such vital human capacities. We're stunting growth and teaching students to depend upon pseudo-monopolistic interfaces to manage relationships.

Why listening to stories and talking about them is so important for young children phys.org/news/2025-09...

Will create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation that is hostile to teaching and learning - one student can start a massive state or national controversy at any time with an out-of-context phone video, etc.