My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

They've lost the 9yos

unspent bullet casing found engraved with "I hope Handsome Genius Kash Patel doesnt catch me"

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

Cancelled Disney+. They don’t make it easy!

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

hello, i made this bot. i am a trans autistic anti-fascist. you are following a work of trans autistic anti-fascist art. that is why it is screaming

Lmaooooooo

It has been 7 years and these are still just as relevant!

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Pretty much this entire thread right here is it.

been staring at this paragraph in @umich.edu ‘s AI guidance on and off. you have an ethical obligation to feed Sam Altman.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

He do not miss…

shit ain’t over til it’s over

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Watching Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) for maybe the third time this year? And not the last, I’ll wager

I love the Joan Jett cover SO much! RiP Sonny Curtis

Participated in a release of young lake sturgeon into the Flint River, to restock the Great Lakes. Lake sturgeon are down to 1% of their original wild population — they can live to over 100 years and grow to 300 pounds. Many small fish were gently fondled and released today 🐟

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

Oh looky, here’s an interesting-looking detective show on PBS. “Fifty-something yet charismatic police commander Agathe Kolte—“ wait a second. Fifty-something YET charismatic? Piss OFF

just saw a cottage cheese commercial that shows two teens eating cottage cheese while gaming. it’s possible that i’m out of touch with today’s youth but i don’t know about that one

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.

Breast cancer awareness vehicle 👍

I know a fae trap when I see one

New Otter just dropped. www.earth.com/news/scienti...

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

Tbh tho the agony of choosing books for a trip is one of life's greatest little joys.

Doing this is bad enough. Voluntarily admitting it is unhinged. People are ashamed of all the wrong things

Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – the stunning vintage woodcuts of Japanese artist Hasui Kawase www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...

If you’ve ever wondered why crime is higher in majority-Black, Democrat-controlled cities, you can just look at the data. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

I did the thing where I looked for my glasses only to realise they were sitting on top of my head. Soon the sweet release of death

Saw this sphinx moth yesterday at dusk. I loooove them. 😍 Fun Fact: They’ve been on the planet longer than hummingbirds. They are the hovering O.G.s

Mark Zuckerberg reacts to failed LiveAI recipe and Meta Ray-Ban Display video call demos at Connect 2025 #Meta #AI #MetaConnect

Don't make me tap the sign Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔 Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

George Dance, 1. Caricature. A Woman Seated on a Two-Legged Ass-Headed Monster Straddling a Man in Military Uniform, 1809 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129733

Okay this answers a lot of questions I have had!!!!

"Rather than taking an 'abstinence-only' approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs." —Piers Gelly for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-happene...

for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 9: It’s a battle of green vs blue as rare but vibrant chromium-bearing #kosmochlor up against the deep blue copper alteration mineral #azurite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Cleaning someone’s dryer vent without them ever knowing is probably one of the most heroic & beautiful things a person can do

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Watching Darcy’s proposal (1995) again just because I need a laugh. Firth’s pacing and staring kills me

Is your child skeeting about #JaneAusten? CW: Captain Wentworth BTW: Ball this weekend LOL: Long overdue letters ICYMI: Immense castle you may inherit DM: Darcy’s manners IDGAF: If dull gentlemen acquire fortunes IMHO: I married him, obviously LMAO: Lydia molested an officer

me to my cat while reading a Victorian novel: What the devil are you playing at