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Thank you @sdsirens.bsky.social for gathering your supporters group and making two out-of-town NWSL fans feel right at home at your watch party. It was a blast being with other woso peeps for the final.

This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking. I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

This is a really good piece on how higher ed employees are affected when their colleagues are laid off. As much of higher ed is tightening its collective belts, this is certainly worth reading.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything. Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

Hmmm. Anyone think we’ll now get the punditry class to engage in weeks long debate about the need for the right to moderate and move more to the center to improve its electoral chances? …Anyone??

one problem w/so many analogies is that we intuitively gravitate to useful stuff; there's no easy shorthand for something as obviously counterproductive and disastrous that still tracks. it feels more like saying "DraftKings is collaborating with Cal to register undergrads to bet on course outcomes"

Who would of thought spending nearly $1B on LLM textbooks would get you rubbish?

AI snake oil that could get kids killed www.wbaltv.com/article/stud...

Great article on how the AI bubble is just the latest ed tech grift that's part of a "broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators."

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Just another "Pro-LGBTQ" Democrat coming out very strongly against the trans community. Harris claims she can discriminate against trans girls without vilifying kids, while repeating incorrect transphobic ideas and vilifying kids.

yeah, i’d take an old school recipe card over this any day.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

also imagine being a graduate student and willingly degrading your own learning by using gAI; it is genuinely alarming to think of how it is going to impact generations of creativity and original thought

“You can have a verbal conversation like you would with a professor” We have office hours for this exact purpose.

I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics. Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

good piece www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

Breaking: Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup. This is the appropriate consequence and punishment for attempting to overthrow your own nation's democracy.

This also counts as political violence.

This is networked incitement. Vigilantes are using this moment to harass HBCUs and make threats that cause a shutdown. It is a patterned reaction. This is the aftermath of political violence streamed online for all to witness. Misinformation has been rampant.

My dad was in the first generation of his family that wasn't sharecroppers and my mom desegregated a school in Austin. They were born in 64 and 66 respectively.

Shoehorning "AI literacy" into every single class strikes me as the same way "AI" and "productivity" is justified in the workforce. "AI" may save time (which it doesn't by many empirical studies), but the time taken on new tasks (e.g., checking outputs) has added much more time to the task. 4/

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

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there is some distance between education as "crush" your academics as quickly as possible and education as a meaningful experience that is worth discussing

It’s not that reality and history are being rewritten… but that they’re being essentially erased by a flood of bullshit that functions as a pervasive noise, rendering it harder and harder to find the signal.

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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Ever see an ICE abduction? Ever wonder what happens to the disappeared? As important an MSM article on what’s happening as I’ve seen…and ironically it happened by accident. www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/u...

This was planned for when the clock hit 51:00 (because DC should be the 51st state), and HUGE, HUGE respect for Mike Watts and Lianne Sanderson, who doubtless were told not to talk about it, and chose to not talk AT ALL so we could hear the chant clearly.

The biggest concern I have about this is most other courts have (correctly) interpreted that faculty classroom speech is protected which means this will move its way to scotus. Hooray.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague). This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

‘We’ll use AI but a human will always have the final say’ - I don’t think anyone can make good decisions using slop and I don’t want anyone who uses slop making any decisions.

Welp, this Bangladeshi news website published an article with a totally made-up quote from me today! The report it cites presumably also doesn’t exist? Really cool media landscape we’ve got here, folks! inews.zoombangla.com/will-joe-rog...

The US Secretary of Defense endorses a call for “Christian Domination” on his personal X account:

Is there any other country in the world that works this hard to honor traitors? Not to mention enslavers and losers.

Reverse racism proves the existence of racism. Also, you know how soft you have to think a player is to ask for government intervention? If I'm CC, I'd rather just have all haters. These "fans" are racist and awful.

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.