This would be transformative. To invest in publicly developed and owned learning management systems at CUNY instead of extractive and shitty Brightspace, Blackboard etc.

People who fill out every survey are the same demographic as people who proudly wear their school's team colors every Friday, as the institution suggests

Just wondering: are there people who click on every survey they receive and happily fill it out? There must be, right, for them to be so common for literally every transaction?

Me

Why I still read the comments. (Also, imagine posting sympathy of DICK CHENEY’S family on the day a Democratic Socialist wins a high-profile election.)

Came here to make fun of Staten Island and saw this. Having connections to both places I can’t overemphasize what a dumb take this is. What if Left Wing Barner and their 128 likes traveled south of Northern Virginia sometime

This is just people fighting to control their workplace. It has nothing to do with the people, with voters, with policy. Thank you.

I mean we don’t have any pictures of ourselves, nieces, nephews, or other family up, but Donna is representing on the fridge. Pour a little out for DJ; jam an unhinged Playing in the Band

one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...

R.I.P. Donna Jean. 😭

Plz don’t ever forget I am a hero of human resistance to computerization BS 😃

Jonathan Edwards: "The sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Big Tech" 😂

Love how faith traditions, once abandoned, emerge and reveal a completely ingrained framework for understanding the world. Like I was raised Southern Baptist and am agnostic, but I direct a SB's hatred of Satan directly and uncompromisingly toward AI. 😅

Pay human writers. Even bad ones.

I 100% prefer my friends’ shittiest possible movie recommendations to *any* AI-generated slop. I would prefer to read the shittiest human takes on film ever written over this bland, formulaic shit.

Really hate seeing the Criterion Channel embrace AI. There’s a right side of this and there’s a wrong side of this. I don’t see any gray.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

A good reminder for me and also for anyone else who sometimes gets to feeling that teaching is a total waste of time 🥹

Also, you know the water in that tub gets cold *way* too fast. You can look at it and tell. Fuck this Refurbished Lincoln Bathroom in the White House

I mean it kind of looks like the veining of a Roquefort cheese. I’d eat it before I’d bathe in it, and I’m a champion bather. It looks like a sub-part bathing experience; you really need to be able to stretch out. 1/10 bath

That is a dizzying amount of money to create the dystopia pictured. And a dizzying amount of spending on “superintelligence.” Does it really take all the Humanities scholars in the room to ask the dumb question “what for?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/t...

My nine-year-old nephew’s preferred symbolism his entire life has been penises and boobs (a fact I will point out to him when he’s older), but I am proud to announce he seems to have graduated recently to representations of… Baphomet. 😂

One of Elon Musk's big gripes with Wikipedia is that his entry there has a whole section on his salute during his inauguration speech earlier this year. His Grokipedia entry doesn't mention it at all, but the "Nazi salute" Grokipedia entry says this:

Looking at these and thinking about how many hours I have logged listening to DeJohnette. First gig I ever booked as a nervous young twentysomething was a DeJohnette trio; I was so in awe I was too nervous to meet him. He hated the club, but you wouldn't know it from his performance. Rest easy, 👑.

Three years ago we said farewells to Virgil, this “big ol’ lovable, vice presidential galoot,” as @joshroiland.bsky.social put it. I miss making him take silly pictures with me—this one was about three months before he shuffled off this mortal coil. It’s too bad pets can’t last a human lifetime!

Former workwife @historianclr.bsky.social & I have come up with the best plan for post-midterms coasting, when you’ve put in the hard work of setting up your classes and can pull back just a bit and turn the heavy lifting over to students: sweatpants pedagogy. It’s good for one’s sanity. 😀

Was brainstorming to come up with, as I put it to JJT, "the most EASY TO LIKE song that is also COOL and has good lyrics for analyzing" for a thing I'm doing in class. Independently of each other we named "I'll Be Your Mirror." Curious what other people would choose!

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Pretty much everything sucks, but the weather is getting cooler, and there is a Cook Out in Valdosta

Just want to say for the billionth time what hell on earth grading in the age of ChatGPT is. You just have to assume that if students are doing work on their own and not in front of you with a pen and a paper and no tech, they're going to use it. Based on my current grading, about 8 times out of 10.

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"They will not be able to order food in a restaurant without having it spit in. Who do you think works in New York City’s kitchens, fuckos? Don’t miss the spit bagels, spit hot dogs, and spit pastrami sandwiches of our fine city. You sad little clowns." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

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v lifelike, there’s even a rock of cocaine clinging to her nose

DL2 has been down, too. Friends at Portland State and Slippery Rock State, and me here at VSU: all the LMS systems are down.

It is also true that my patience for standing around listening to music for any extended length of time has waned significantly, even if it were a piano trio playing at an acceptable volume. Give me a place to sit and I’m good.

Autechre for 90 minutes in a pitch-black room sounds like a panic attack and a safety hazard. The concert promoter in me dies hard, I guess.

Feel like it’s good luck every time you spot this record out in the wild. You gotta buy it if you don’t already have a few copies sitting around.

Stand up, stand up for Jesus, / ye soldiers of the cross. ‘spose that’s what the Norbertines did by crying poverty and hiring a president to fire Humanities faculty. But now that we’re gone, these unspoiled servants of Christ have found the funds to donate $15 million to SNC’s endowment.

I’ve seen a couple of job postings this season for AI specialists. One of them mentioned “prompt engineering” as a desired teaching skill. Talk about a made-up skill. I’m more than ready for these people to be shamed out of higher ed. These three years can’t come fast enough.

Kudos to Charlie Berens for trying his best to gum up the works: the construction of these massive AI data centers in Wisconsin. Others have already shown that any increase in employment is temporary and relegated to the building of the data centers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUvE...

I’m today years old learning that you can kill the automatic AI summary on Google by adding in “-AI” at the end of a search. There should be something more permanent, though. Is there not?

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

This is disturbing and creepy for so many reasons, but it’s also bizarre how much of a push there is for people to ignore listening to their own bodies and instead outsource those decisions to flawed technology.

Dump Spotify bsky.app/profile/sfga...

“even more, like erotica for verified adults” 💀 💀 💀

Using ChatGPT

Introducing little miss Della Street, a beauty and a sock thief moving in with us very soon! 😍👀🐶

Happy Columbo’s Day

Scooped a Meyer lemon bush from a local plant nursery in south AL yesterday. I’m so excited about this.