The case for AI, in a nutshell.

Not Catholic, but I love this Pope. #academicsky #AI www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Jenny Linsky and Kitty Carlisle love sitting in sunshine almost as much as sitting in a box. #catsofbluesky #cats #caturday

#academicsky #AAUP #standupforscience

“When we use AI to flesh out ideas, we lose the most important part of the writing process: thinking.” Amen! #academicsky #AI www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

#birdsofbluesky #hummingbirds

Read this! #indivisible #democracy This Is How to Defeat an Autocrat www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

‘No Kings’ movement planning nationwide protests on King Trump's 80th birthday.

I will be sharing this article with my students next semester. #AI #academicsky What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

#AI #philosophy

This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post

Kitty Carlisle inspected the cupboard and found nothing for cats. She thinks this makes her a victim of weaponization. She would like a million dollars, please. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky

Trump's chins cast a shadow as he mocks transgender weightlifters during his speech today in New York (Roberto Schmidt/Getty)

A rather obvious but very important point. #vra #race #civilrights #Callais The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

I'm so sick of the "cats just see you as a food dispenser" takes. I worked in a vet clinic, and it's definitely not true. If you take good care of your cat, they really do love you in a simple cat way. How do I know? Cats are actually very social; they naturally live in colonies.

JAMES WOOD. INSIDE THE PARK. GRAND SLAM.

WATCH WOOD WUN

In our present situation, one case to be made for studying the humanities is that in a dictatorship it is crucial to be able to read critically, to distinguish true from false, and reality from illusion (or propaganda). #academicsky

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

A doctor caught while trying to flee the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, carrying the tools of his profession. The finding is the latest extraordinary discovery at the Archaeological Park of #Pompeii, made more than sixty years after the excavation of the Orto dei Fuggiaschi. #Archaeology

I just told Kitty Carlisle that we are a nation of laws, not men, and this is the look she gave me. #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

Scary. #academicsky

Lack of consensus about empirical reality is evidence that the country is coming apart. Also, American exceptionalism is dumb. #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

The beautiful humming bird that shimmers when the sunlight shines on its beautiful illuminating feathers!

#india #freespeech www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o...

I hate sharing stuff from the bad place but goddam that’s funny.

It's the same scene.

"The real lesson of the Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act over the past 13 years is that a Court that isn’t meaningfully accountable is a Court that won’t be beholden to democracy, period." #SCOTUS #votingrights

#fuckICE #abolishICE

Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"

BREAKING: Trump has apparently fired the National Science Board (NSB).

Dozing in the sunshine, Kitty Carlisle dreams of winning Olympic gold in platform diving. #catsofbluesky #caturday #cats

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

If you missed the NY Times story, you can read this instead. Though it's important enough that you should read both! #SCOTUS

Quantifying the harm of grade inflation (which is certainly rampant at my institution): #academicsky www.educationnext.org/dumbing-down...

A timeless cat pose: The Sphinx. #caturday #catsofbluesky

Looking at this today, I think SCOTUS was arguably right in this case but wrong to drop their principles when a Republican became president. #SCOTUS #ruleoflaw @stevevladeck www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Gray Lady visits my alma mater, Carleton College. #Carleton #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...

This crosses the line from everyday villainy to cartoonish supervillainy. #abolishICE #fuckICE www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

“We should all be clear-eyed about the possibility that the American people will elect the wrong people again.” Sad but true. #ruleoflaw

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

Overdue, of course, but still: Yay.

In general, Thomas Edsall's pieces are the best thing in the NY Times Opinion section. But this piece is disappointing-- seems like a bunch of old people complaining about the young folk and their screens and whatnot. #academicsky #NoKings www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Post by Iran's Embassy in SA🇿🇦: "And today’s popular music: “blockade” by Trump."

Because there aren’t enough things to worry about in the news already. #AI #anthropic #mythos Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not | Shakeel Hashim www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Because there aren’t enough things to worry about in the news already. #AI #anthropic #mythos Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not | Shakeel Hashim