Good, thoughtful thread. And when I talk about AI cheating with my students I stress that cheating is high-risk, doing the work low-risk: If you make any effort at all in my class you'll pass, and if you need a certain grade I'll work with you to help you get it. But if you cheat? You fail.

What a loss. One of the greatest opportunities I had as a PhD student at UMass was to have dinner with her and a number of other authors and professors. What an amazing dinner conversation that was!

This gofundme has been chugging along, but is still only about 20% to goal. I would love it if M and theyr family didn't need to worry anymore.

There’s your ad, Democrats, if you’re willing to fuck with fossil fuel donors.

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Icymi we all have a favorite show dropping next month

A former student of mine has been in the hospital since April and has just found out they'll need brain surgery and more procedures. They are in a hospital 3 hours away from home, and their family could use some financial relief from the hotel and travel costs. Can you help? gofund.me/24820559c

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh, how *interesting*, here's an editorial cartoon from Freedom Summer (1964) depicting a hand labeled “U.S.” lifting a large rock to reveal a white hooded snake labeled “Local Law Enforcement Agents.” And the "hooded" snake is klan-shaped. 👀

If somebody tells you they don't believe in pronouns just call God "she" and I think they'll figure it out in a hurry.

the ceos of these companies should be fired for being terrible at their jobs

The actual story gets into this, but “doubts” doesn’t quite encapsulate the critique here. Historians, including the head of Washington’s own presidential library, have long dismissed this story as devoid of evidence and likely a fabrication.

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Fuck him up, Socrates.

Does everyone know about Taskmaster? I feel like everyone doesn't know about Taskmaster. Anybody who doesn't know about Taskmaster: This is the best show, and there's a lot of it.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

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This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

#MorningVibe Choose to be a helper.

Honestly I'm betting this tracks pretty well with LGBTQ adults. Like I don't care about "I support trans people! Repost if you do too!" on your timeline. I care about do you never fail to correctly gender us even when we annoy you or make you angry.

This will kill the intellect and creativity of an entire generation if we don't fight it.

Even if there’s stuff we disagree on* I really, really value that Pope Leo gets what serving the divine is AND he also goes hard for it in that perfectly Chicago way *like his taste in baseball teams my GOD

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I think they’re gonna love my pitch! 🤞

yeah some amendments that would really repair the damage and build the country anew we could call them the Reconstruction Amendments maybe

The point at which a sane, morally principled award winning teacher who is angry about school shootings picks up a gun and thinks it’s the only way to make a difference is a bad place to be in. Dismissing him as a crazy person and blaming Dems is disingenuous and dishonest

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

Got to say "one enema away from solving world hunger" on cable news' most watched show last night. InfoWars is already paying off.

We are out of rainbow trucker hats. I repeat: We have sold out of rainbow InfoWars trucker hats. (We'll restock them. But you can still buy the union-made shirts.)

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Good. Get Dems in primaries on the record, get Dems in the general on the record, push to pass it in January, make Trump veto it. And have it ready to go if Trump's GOP support keeps crumbling. Some interesting specifics, too...

Preaching to the choir here, but I'm an advocate of making people uncomfortable for still supporting Potter stuff. Don't let them try and handwave it away. Make them confront the harm their support enables.

When has the pope ever made me laugh before now, I can't think of it.

This is a reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

Here's some art for any trans friends who would like it. Drop me a message if you'd like the high res emailed to you.

This is such great messaging. Cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

energy-saving link for people inundated with Rowling apologists shardsofblue.medium.com/so-someone-t...

Sometimes it’s complex. This time it’s not. It’s really not. She’s taking the money and using it to oppress, terrorize, and kill an already oppressed minority currently already being terrorized and killed.

Anyway HP was once a boarding school/ fantasy story about a boy finding himself embroiled in a wizarding world with an antifascist message, and you could discuss how successful it was at delivering that story (ok imo) and message (not ok imo). Now it is a tool of fascist oppression. The end.

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

Hugo nominations close this weekend! I am once again swallowing my personal flinch response at self-promotion* to ask that you please, please consider the October Daye books for Best Series.

I'm really looking forward to my In Conversation with T Kingfisher next Tuesday! I've been making notes for intelligent and hard hitting questions such as "What the fuck?" and "In God's name why?" and also "Jesus Christ, mate!" although that's more of a comment than a question.

It's crazy to me how much the anti trans side makes insane claims how GAC harms children and yet there are at least 2 movie stars (Hunter Schafer, Nicole Maines), a pop star(Kim Petras), and a model (Vivian Wilson) who all transitioned as youth and are now happy adults living their best lives.

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.