Anyway behold, the light increaseth, if imperfectly. And if that ain't a metaphor for us poor creatures struggling to do our best by one another, I don't know what is.

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

THANK YOU INTERNET STRANGER for showing us all how to make safari on iphone be usable again

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Henry Ford HATED Jazz because too many Jewish & Black Folks were a part of it. He pushed the Department of Education to make square dance part of the curriculum to counter Jazz.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

being department chair is this but the crops of unsolvable problems are harvested weekly

A recent piece on RFK’s approach to health policy called it “decision-based evidence-making,” and that seems an apt way to describe this whole administration.

This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

“I considered transferring out of U.T., because if my professors are unable to teach me, and I’m not able to have candid conversations to get a proper education, what am I here for?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Something that I think is important to stay aware of in teaching students with an eye out for inappropriate use of AI on assignments is that it seems to already be the case that students even when not using the tools are adopting more of the tools’ stylistic quirks.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015

The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people. Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...

This reminds me that in 1995 our grades were published in the hallway, listed by our ID numbers, WHICH WERE OUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS and once I was with my situationship who was a government computer hacker and I checked my grade and 30 min later he rattled off my SSN and was like “I own you now”

“It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean.” Don’t forget Moby-Dick is a Christmas novel!!!!

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

The Metaverse was that rare public event that absolutely everyone knew was a bad idea. At no point in its existence did anyone want it to exist or think that it could work.

it's not for nothing that my students read Marx's "The Power of Money" (1844) and were like "this is totally about elon musk"

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

I've also never used chatgpt, I already have a hugely energy-inefficient device that makes up plausible-sounding but occasionally hilarious bullshit based on stuff it reads (brain)

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

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no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop

hey internet, since google search is just useless af anymore, who all remembers how to find that low quality CGI animation of teaching animal names in spanish wherein the colorful animals are on a boat walking through a glowing orb that transforms them into a different animal? and the music is bad?

hey internet, since google search is just useless af anymore, who all remembers how to find that low quality CGI animation of teaching animal names in spanish wherein the colorful animals are on a boat walking through a glowing orb that transforms them into a different animal? and the music is bad?

Ah Bartleby! Ah finals week!

For Bartleby day, I had students copy 19th century legal documents by hand until they appropriately protested. They made it 7 minutes. So much longer than I expected!

I really thought crocodiles did swim

saw this this morning and chose to stay in bed an extra half hour.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

An administration in a race to be condemned by the most children's book characters

“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”

This quote from the Atlantic is right & true! One odd thing is how these points, which have been obvious for several years to anyone who spent five minutes considering how LLMs work & what education is, are finally coalescing into the standard take from the center of middlebrow opinion—why only now?

this is quite the detail