Better yet: DocuSign the movie!

I’d like to think it’s my overwhelming support that got them through.

Now that the US, Mexico, and Canada are out, I will be routing for Argentina (over my late Chilean mother’s objections) in honor of my Argentinian aunt. It’s only logical.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

I only see Ed Norton here.

Among many taken today at LACMA’s block party event.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

One of the biggest things I’ve learned as a college professor is to be on guard of those with ambition. Everything they do is “for the students” or for “equity” but it is really all for them.

Future dystopian sci-fi has imagined things like nuclear wastelands, sure. Totalitarian oppression, climate catastrophe, sure. But rarely has it imagined today's real horror of AI making stupid and annoying people 100x worse.

Grades are in, autoreply to email has been activated, so bring on summer. (Note: Summer may include fall prep and major automotive repairs).

Grades are done but not in. My hair is the same color but I did (and I’m not joking) see some of it fall out while grading. I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Although I am an AI abolitionist, as an educator I am exposed to a lot of AI slop and I worry what this exposure is doing to my brain.

Arguing by meme really helps people feel heard and respected. It’s the most persuasive approach.

Half way there. Three down, three to go. 200 odd assignments to grade before Tuesday. Some of my hair is still brown.

I’m behind on the reading but is this play basically Homeric fanfic? Reading The Odyssey now in prep for the film and the comparison is not favorable to Shakespeare.

One class graded and for the history books, five more to go.

“In 2026, many major social media platforms feel icky because we are in the full throes of the third stage of enshittification” Ah! The third stage of enshittification. I remember reading about you in Hesiod’s Works and Days!

The deal to end the war In Iran is looking a lot like infrastructure week. Or Waiting for Godot.

How did I get my Canvas to do list from 400+ down to 89 this weekend? By neglecting my wife and child, that’s how!

I’m now starter pack famous. Add to the CV? Does that count as a professional organization?

It's not just ___, it's also ______. 🫩🔫 #aigrading

Fare ye well manuscript. May peer reviewer 2 be ever kind and merciful.

Canvas is down! Liberté, égalité, fraternité!!!

We learn to write in college but we also write to learn across the curriculum. The fact that so few get how learning works is its own crisis.

In their search to lessen antidepressant use one thing that MAHA scientists have yet to consider: making the news less depressing.

@schiff.senate.gov. I would call your office to tell you this but no one has picked up in the last two years. Students don’t need to learn AI skills. It’s a consumer facing product that’s meant to be easy to use. Any idiot can use AI and we know this because every idiot is already using it.

I think it’s fair to say that the only person in Europe who can rely on Washington is Vladimir Putin.

Everyone I heard on CNN last night sounded like they were about to work for the Ellisons soon. But then again, maybe that wasn’t much of a departure.

In which I ask concerned American Jews to ask themselves what it is they really want (for @forward.com) forward.com/opinion/8210...

J. D. Vance getting kicked out of the Catholic Church on the eve of publishing book about how he converted to Catholicism would be the funniest thing. The pope should do it for the comedy value alone.

Make America Competent Again.

Ditch Randi.

Rereading Hamlet. It slaps.

I was cautious around the Ides of March and read Julius Caesar last month.

It is just this amazing coincidence that young Republicans keep on attracting would-be fascists.

hold my beer, hemingway

So they can take off their masks after all. Better they stand around the airport not doing anything than terrorizing communities. Definitely an argument for why they need more funding. Stay safe if you are flying.

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

There’s a lot here that resonates. One thing that resonates is that it has never been harder to be a Jew in the US in my lifetime. The golden age of American Jewish life that informed my childhood and the lives of my parents seems over.

So many villains. Can’t we have a hero?

We‘ve lost a giant.

Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

Take them to the cleaners!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Has anyone done the polling on impeachment?

Reform Movement Statement on War Against Iran • LINK: www.ccarnet.org/reform-movem...

I’ve been reading DC Comics (owned by WB) since I was five. This is going to be tough.

me: can anyone think of an example of chiasmus student: in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, when Paul Blart says "I didn't choose security, security chose me" me: ... unfortunately, that is correct

Hockey + Bowling = Curling? 🥌

Ferris Buehler’s Layoff!