This hate will outlive us all, I can still picture Christian Laettner's punchable face as if it were yesterday

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My colleague Liz Hogrefe wrote an excellent post on "Gemini creep" in the Google Slides "Beautify" feature. "The results are alarming for many reasons, but most importantly because the 'beautify' process strips all of the accessibility features from the slide." blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2026/03/...

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An interestingly timed post considering that the Trump administration is trying to remove the 15th Street bike lane in part because it says it causes more traffic for cars.

This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.

just one moment of celebration for getting a major donor to move $3 million dollars this week to rent funds now if only there were more than one generous super-wealthy person and the news hadn’t moved on from this entirely predictable crisis

It’s big ball chunky time

I too think building a tunnel in a city so famously waterlogged they do not bury their dead is a good idea h/t @ninametz.bsky.social

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Leaving to be WPI's dean of the school of arts and sciences - thanks for everything Jeff 🤢

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Hell yeah public transit 🫶🏻

Instructure featured Proctorio on their blog and social media. I was a Canvas administrator when I criticized Proctorio in 2020. I was sued by Proctorio for sharing a screenshot from Canvas. Instructure is complicit in vendor abuse of educational technologists, and this should never be forgotten.

The RAM crisis isn’t manufactured, it’s basically NVIDIA and people building data centers using NVIDIA gpus buying up all the ram. OpenAI isn’t buying anything because OpenAI doesn’t own any infrastructure. The ram shortage is real because of ai data centers but not OpenAI’s imaginary order

I will be posting my written testimony tomorrow on the blog.

Just watched Illinois move one step closer to a consumer protection bill that would put a stop to the price gouging of libraries for digital materials. Someone said they didn't know why they didn't do this sooner, and I agree. Enough is more than enough. ilga.gov/Legislation/...

It is insane how many billions of dollars of fictitious OpenAI deals there are and how often they're reported as "done" when no actual business of any kind has taken place. People talk about OpenAI buying 40% of the world's RAM despite it NEVER HAPPENING! AHhhhhh

Virtual ticket yessssss (bc I am not driving across the state twice in a month)

This study doesn't explain why high-SES White men have weaker friendships than everyone else (on average). But I'd be curious to see how much of this gap is explained by what we might call "status maxing"--putting the pursuit of profit and professional promotion above all other things.

The worst human in NC politics has now been replaced by....the new worst person in NC politics.

Been waiting for this! When CUNY got a new LMS that *wasn’t* Canvas, many faculty bemoaned the news as another example of “our poor little public uni” couldn’t possibly have the nice shiny things everyone else gets. No LMS is good but at least we’re not enmired in that mess

I hope I live long enough to understand Nido Qubein's chokehold on power. Is it just money??

“There’s no ceasefire,” says Hamdouna’s father. “It’s all talk, for the media. In reality, there’s no ceasefire.”

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justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”

Always v humbling to look at bandcamp's bestsellers and know no one

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Knowing who to be mad at is praxis.

Never not shouting that this is DOUBLE wage theft, from the staffer who should be doing the work, and from the reimbursee forced to do it, purely for the purpose of channeling often public university funds into private app developer coffers and it sucks.

There are also real "March 2020" vibes in the air again as countries in Asia are significantly changing behaviors like working from home to deal with a growing energy crisis while Western countries continue implementation of RTO and only note higher gas prices; not warnings of supply chain issues.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

Visited family going through a tough (medical) time this weekend, but the constant yacht rock was a nice dance break, over and over. Music!!

This is one of (if not the) most important issues in our field, and Violet has been doing this from a position of extreme vulnerability. Don't miss the excellent & actionable suggestions here; don't miss that those of us [currently] w/ prof stability HAVE TO pick up the work of advocacy here.

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If you're looking for a free movie streamer, see if your local library does @kanopy.com. They've currently got The Zone of Interest, Minority Report, I Saw the TV Glow, The Conversation, the original Indian Jones movies, etc. Also rare older stuff like Trace of Stones (1966). Kanopy is neat.

absolutely wild how the internet has become everything they were warning about it being in the late 90s, but since the guys making bank off the scams are now white dudes in suits whose daddies paid for their college it's actually considered proper business ventures now

Girls just wanna swank

It's going to be a very hard summer for so many people and so many species. We can already feel here in BC, with the weak snowpack currently washing down mountains because of an unseasonable atmospheric river. The only ones doing well are the oil companies, with their record war profits.

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I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

I write out impt talks I'm going to give, bc I edit while I write and it helps me remember the big rocks of the talk

‘59% of teenagers told Pew that students use AI to cheat, while 34% said it happens extremely or very often.’ God help this generation. We have allowed Big Tech to convince us that ‘AI is revolutionizing the world’ and we’re sacrificing the development and well being of children to their Mammon.

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

One of the most fun parts of the job 💕📚📜

Love this idea, but instead of a bar it's a bakery, and instead of "situation monitoring" it's a "library", and the last tiny change is instead of the money going to gambling cabals it goes to local community organizations

Babe... this is a story about affordability

This is such a weird way to talk about most of these places, which are not small-ish cities unto themselves but wealthy, close-in suburbs of regional megacities. Alpharetta, for example, is directly north of Atlanta and made entirely out of office parks and luxury car dealerships