Happy 14th birthday to this classic.

Fantastic article in which actual experts on AI and higher education cut through the nonsense surrounding the infinite garbage engines and expose a system captured by the techbro sales pitch. "A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so."

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

Genuinely jazzed for this www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

I want the Skywalker saga to die -- kill it if you have to -- but it's hilarious that the people who were OK with "somehow, Palpatine returned" could not think of a way to bring Ben Solo back. bsky.app/profile/cult...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

I just saw history. Ohtani…unreal.

When I think about those who had the greatest influence on my sense of humor, Gary Larson is on the list. I am happy to see new, and still very Far-Sidey, comics from a comedic genius.

And for me, it has made grading twice as long! Now I have to painstakingly spend time looking at every source a student cites to ensure it’s not a hallucination. If I let AI grade, then it won’t notice the ghost source, and the student does not acquire the skills or learn from the assessment.

There isn’t one. All the arguments are weak and/or fallacious.

I am still waiting for a detailed, pedagogically-backed argument for how AI improves learning. I have only been told it’s a helpful tool that will help students learn and teachers prep faster, but still waiting for what it’s supposed to do that human educators with more funding can’t do.

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

Interesting that then decisions made by MLB in Manfred’s tenure have been framed as “saving the game,” yet much of what has been done, specifically buddying up with Big Gambling, did not address the fan issue and merely unleashed the worst sides of humanity on the game.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Is the girlfriend from Canada and did they apprehend her at the location of the summer camp where the “ANTIFA founder” met her?

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Seeing the “do the Humanities make people ‘good’” discourse again. I am not naive enough to believe they do, but the conversation is severely distorting and misrepresenting the field. First, not every discipline in the Humanities “teaches” the same thing. Also, the field is not static.

Relevant today, as always.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

Dan Dickerson "Fuck this game recap" youtu.be/4NoKwsQMG3U?...

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Toronto watching Detroit and Seattle work through every pitcher on their roster…

Seattle is on the phone with Randy Johnson at this very moment.

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in one shot

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

‘The Simpsons has been in decline as long as I’ve been alive’: why it’s time for the show to end for good

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

saw this float through my timeline, looking for the person who created this to give them credit, was it someone on here?

Quality education is a personnel-intensive, time-intensive, low tech project. It involves hours in the classroom, hours reading, hours meeting with students, hours writing or working in the lab. Time- & personnel-intensive, non-sexy stuff. It's been that way for centuries & will remain so.

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Reminder friends of my free and online talk about my book, 'Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland' on Tuesday, Sept 30th from 5pm as part of Dublin Festival of History. You can join from anywhere in the world! Link to register: dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/filthy...

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th. We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums. Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us. See you in DC!

♻️ IG/rellyrellz2 Cheer Football Stunt….Is it a stunt? is it football? How about BOTH!!!! You get it honest Sydney 😂 #wssupowerhouse

This is akin to claiming it should be historicized as “the Bataan Battle March.”

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Education is more than job training.

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

Happy birthday to C. Montgomery Burns.

Quotes the great Dan Carter, who wrote the definitive biography of George Wallace. Kirk’s murder “is a terrible thing for America, but I don’t think we gain anything by embracing him as some kind of open-minded individual who strengthened democracy.” (gift link)

Dan Gilroy won the #Emmy award for best writing for a drama series for "Andor," which brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to "Star Wars."

They finally did it!

This wild slide has us in awe 👀

When we eulogize political figures who have died we usually do so with snippets of their own words that exemplify the essence of their life’s work. So let’s see them, all of the Kirk quotes in which we see him urging his followers to embrace the better angels of their nature.