Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

It's not a shock that a genre with so much sexism and misogyny would lead to working environments with sexism and misogyny, but having had furniture thrown at you as a woman director is still jarring

It's always fun playing the game, "Does it suck because my campus IT sucks, or is it AWS that is sucking?" You rarely lose betting the campus is the problem, but this time I searched and find out that Brightspace D2L uses AWS. So much fun on the day midterm grades are due

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Need to dive in, but this should be a warning sign

Dr. Oz, a government official, just uttered the phrase “under-babied” I liked him so much better when he was peddling supplements with false claims, and I didn’t like him at all back then

At this point, whenever someone in MAGA-world (Gov't, news, other) says someone is "Antifa" just remember to substitute the word "boogeyman" because that is all it is, a made up word to scare people

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Hey, Chicagoland friends, Mary @marykothman.bsky.social has a string quartet that is playing a concert in Chicago on 10/21. It's part of the Ear Taxi Accent concert series. Featuring music of Price, Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, and Elizabeth Start. www.eartaxifestival.com/full-schedul...

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Greg Gutfeld screamed at his co-host @jessicatarlov.bsky.social that it would take her two months to find examples of right wing domestic terrorism. I've included several examples - the Evergreen High School shooting happened the same day as the murder of Charlie Kirk.

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

It’s Faculty Committee Meeting Day to all who celebrate! We will pretend that the world is not on fire all around us

I want everyone to take a step back for a second, remember why she was fired from New York and juxtapose this w/ all the high profile media folks that have recently lost *their* jobs. *Some* people are allowed to fail upwards. It's mesmerizing.

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

If you don't know enough about these people to know that they use "empath" as an insult, than you fundamentally should not be talking to them. Someone literally should take your microphone away before you hurt yourself and others

"Bill Kristol is more expansive and full-throated in his defense of transgender rights than most elected Democratic officials" is another sentence.

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Big time truth

I’m sure there will be a very thorough investigation into why an ATF agent apparently leaked a document full of falsities to right-wing media personalities claiming the Charlie Kirk shooter had expressed “transgender ideology”

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

Bravo

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

Companies are selling *the illusion* of assurance

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:

I'm really uncomfortable with RFK Jr. talking about young men's sperm counts. In the words of Mike Johnson, "Yield, man!"

"And remember that Jesus said 'suffer the little children' and that's what we're doing, we're making sure those children suffer, and that they continue to suffer to this day. In Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump's name we prey."

This is a reminder that if you are faculty in Texas or anywhere else for that matter you need to join @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.org . Your administration will not protect you from right wing attacks

Shocked! that the “free speech” were never actually about free speech. Incredibly negligent of the press to portray them that way

This really clarifies my anger at an @npr.org reporter who Sunday called Trump "a master of branding" when talking about this change. It insults the people who have served and sacrificed for the country.

Told this story to my sophomores today, and I’m pretty sure they would have punched him

I would say "make it make sense" but I know how it makes sense to a certain type of person

From Princeton Professor of Politics and International Affairs, @jshapiro.bsky.social.

I am "strained my back while pulling on a pair of socks" old. It's going to be a great day