USF-Rice on the radio. tunein.com/radio/Bulls-...

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

I try not to swear much in print. @profanity.accountant

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

The Texas Supreme Court changed its policy to allow judges to refuse same-sex marriages. The change happened last week but it’s only being reported now because nobody noticed, in case you want to see an example of the real world impact of the collapse of local news industry

I had a thought. I've been questioned many times, why I put Trinidadian dialect in my novella that is set centuries in the future. The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out? And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?

the states of tx and fl are set to legislate literary canons in schools and there’s a whole standardized testing apparatus that could enforce “correct” interpretations

Should have tagged this 👇 for #skystorians 🗃️

among things i dislike in contemporary Christianity: (1) megachurches (2) this exact thing happening during sermons and it's across denominational lines too, and even political ones

🚨 New working paper 🚨 Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims? We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024). Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749

This is a misleading description. Brin moved money into a trust of which he is the sole trustee. It's a tax dodge that he still controls! Brin also has a family foundation. The money he puts into that (a much smaller amount) is bound by strict rules on how much has to be dispersed annually.

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

Dragon Slayer

This is exciting news

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

No assertion from this administration should be presented as fact unless independently verified

New | The story of Manny Diaz Jr.'s remarkable ascendancy at the University of West Florida, where he turned an interim job into one in which he enjoys "presidential privilege" - pricey renovations, country club memberships and unusual protection from board firing. jaxtrib.org/2025/11/25/i...

I teach information literacy for a living (or used to), so, yes, random shitposters, my opposition to genAI is because I’ve been radicalized by anonymous Twitter accounts. Sure.

Yesterday, Roger Stone announced his partnership with a menswear company, where together they've released a collection of tailored clothing items. Here is my review of those pieces. 🧵

Goldsmith was head of George W. Bush's DOJ OLC and is a respected conservative, not afraid of executive power. He's not John Yoo, but then I think even Yoo has expressed doubts about the legality of these strikes

Sigh. Tottenham. Really?

Since the Pope has come out against generative AI, does this mean Catholic academics can refuse to use it on religious grounds?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Alligator Big Horn Sheep Manatee Jackrabbit Rattlesnake

So I just went through and put all of the 2025 contingent-authored pieces from a journal in my subfield on the list. You can do the same if you want to boost contingent scholars in your subfield! It only took me 10 minutes.

Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

Timeline cleanse...

those who crow about “parents’ rights” will celebrate this. but it directly undermines one basic prerogative parents and caregivers have, which is to nurture their children’s free development by affording them the access that books provide to the diversity of ways of living and being in the world. 📚

good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers

This is why it's important for professionals to read the memo. And the doctrine the memo is based on. And, if you can, pick a JAGs brain about why the doctrine says what it does. You know. Or get your makeup on, go on stage and noodle about lethality.

jordan is speaking uncomfortable truth here

Hegseth responds to report he ordered “kill them all” on a Caribbean boat: "As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course. "Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.

This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.

The 'What Would God Say?' Thread...

Sounds like collective punishment 🧐

It's Black Friday. You might as well pre-order the first mainstream published version of the Church Committee Report. Abridged to its most essential findings, this 1975 report reads like the very best investigative journalism mixed with a spy novel covering assassinations, surveillance, sabotage.

General Officers and Flag Officers have a positive duty to protect their people from the legal and other consequences of committing war crimes. Some folks need to (figuratively) fall on their own swords.

In addition to the moral and ethical reasons to follow the laws of war, there are practical reasons to do it. Maintaining good order and discipline is one part of it; protecting our own troops and civilians is another. Ordering personnel to commit war crimes will cause them moral injury.

“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Sears has just 5 locations left. Will they survive into 2026?

Trump doesn't mind crime if it comes with fealty; he's happy to have favors done for him and treats the state as an extractive vehicle for demanding favors. Grunts offer him nothing and are expendable but state leaders can disappear people for bribes & so what if they're involved in crime, who isn't

The two years I presented at the Rethinking War Conference were really great experiences. I was disappointed that it didn’t seem to have continued for a fourth year. www.rethinkingwar.com

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

I’ll stop assigning written work that can be done with an AI if this happens.

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This makes me want to throw things. Our current Secretary of Defense convinced President Trump to pardon war criminals. Even Nixon didn’t actually pardon Calley.

But just because the President, or the SecDef with authority delegated by the President, approves a strike, it DOES NOT MAKE THAT STRIKE LAWFUL!!!!!! 18 & end/

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

This is the type of order you insist on having in writing because it seems unlawful.

I have volumes of ugly tracts about how Jews, Germans, Finns, Hungarians, Poles, and "Papists" can't possibly acclimate to American life because they are hereditary degenerates.