“Chimpanzini Bananini: Phenomenology of Italian Brainrot” is my next paper

My cats eeking and trilling Croissant and chai from Little Tart Watching bad shows in bed Picking a thrifted outfit Husband laughing at my joke

How did the scam that prompting AI is some sophisticated skill (and hence we need to teach it to our students) start? First of all, prompting is not hard at all. Second, even if it was, someone with basic analytical skills would be able to easily translate them to that domain.

AI company CEOs say they want to solve humanity’s hardest problems, and then are like ‘try our micro blueberry model to generate images of yourself as anime lol, by the way it’s $20/month’

We now have two cats, Lola and Mina. And a third one on the wall.

Just donated. Solidarity!

This is too real. As a conditional green card holder, one malicious person could practically destroy the 10 years of life I devoted to US academia.

Thank you @olivia.science and others for so fiercely articulating what we all think!

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey of 4,000 professors in 12 states has revealed the significant impact of political attacks on faculty work and recruitment. The findings show a widespread climate of fear & ongoing desire by some to leave the region for other jobs. 1/x

People are mad at the Wuthering Heights trailer being too sexual and have we read the same book because to me it’s one of the horniest books ever!

Viral Labubu Dubai Chocolate Coffee

An ice breaker I made for my Phil of AI class

I remember filing out the survey for this important paper! Unsurprisingly, my personal experience with challenges seems to be a part of a larger trend philarchive.org/rec/PETECO

The 4 trees that AI previously killed

I’m so over the elements in every single app getting rounder and rounder. You’re inviting enough, you don’t have to turn every button into a circle.

Imagine if universities reacted to the metaverse grift the same way they approach the AI grift: “We have the responsibility to equip our students with the ability to navigate Horizon Worlds with no legs.”

Labubus? LaBuySomethingUseful instead

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well I asked the chickens and lost the battle against the Carthaginians

Day 3 of the Summer Institute begins! “Academic freedom is a job condition, not a privilege…this is a matter of democratic education.” —Rana Jaleel, Chair of AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure, Morning Plenary “Protecting Academic Freedom: How to Build an Effective Issue Campaign.”

“He was never a big factor in terms of life” is like if Trump wrote the epilogue to BARRY LYNDON

Wonderful presentation by @hellobrittparis.bsky.social on AI in higher ed @aaup.org Summer Institute. AI in higher ed is NOT inevitable.

Being here is the kind of morale boost that I need right now. Solidarity!

If I hear “AI is a tool” one more time…

Haven’t been skeeting much because being offline more helps me during these end times. Here’s my morning backyard walk with Mina!

Calling with my 80 year old Slovak grandpa: “…and tell that Trump to go to hell!”

LLMs aren't subjects, but large socio-technical apparatuses, similar to factories, bureaucracies, or corporations, and our critique should not begin by comparing ourselves to them, but by asking what position they impose on us: How do these apparatuses model and interpellate subjectivity? 2/

It’s sad how many thrift stores became basically SHEIN resale points.

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At a loss for words. How can we continue to live in a world full of so much pointless suffering, war, and climate catastrophe.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Mourning years that could’ve been spent fighting for a better future rather than a rearguard against the past slouching from the grave

Rest in Power. It seem as though it’s always the best and kindest people that leave us too early.

My university refused to do anything about Turning Point Nazis on campus but is making us do emotional intelligence training because it creates a better workplace.

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Universities would never sign their own death warrants unless all of them were run by boards of people who absolutely hate what universities are

Just saw a conference ad that said “Agentic AI is coming — and it’s not waiting for permission.” As if it was coming from outer space rather than from corporations, which are the ones not asking for our permission to push their useless products on us.

I feel like this emotion wheel is accurate for cats

Women in Philosophy / Demographics in Philosophy Group: Publishes "Good Practices for Improving Representation in Philosophy Departments" paper. Daily Nous comment section: But what about improving the representation of conservatives in the philosophy departments?

I normally hate debaters but I think I just found one legitimate use of the format

As an Eastern European of a modest background, I think caring about art, music, lit, etc. exposes one to the kind of richness of the world that contributes to philosophical thinking. It shouldn’t be a required entry point into philosophy but I think it’s good when people care about these things.

An ad I just saw: “After every challenge, you bounce back stronger. Now your damaged hair can too.”

I thought that the end of grad school will be the last time I have to see close friends move far away, but now my early career friends are changing jobs and moving away and it’s the same feeling all over again!

Grading experience: A true artificial intelligence is when a case study analysis about Elizabeth Holmes turns into a case study about Sherlock Holmes halfway through.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Shopping for a couch in the sad beige aesthetic era be like:

The only pope I recognize is The Young Pope (2016).

Hannah Arendt said that thinking is a dangerous enterprise. Dangerous because thinking ultimately motivates us to bring action into the world. I have always liked this simple statement, but now it rings truer to me than ever before.

I see some takes today that banning GenAI in classrooms is a carceral and non-creative approach to pedagogy. I dunno, I think saying no to a technology forced on us by some of the most evil corporations is a pretty radical act that affirms the value of education and humanity!

This is already becoming so obvious to me as an educator. The students who didn’t use AI are SO much better in class discussions, present their work at conferences, lead student clubs, etc.