Never not shouting that this is DOUBLE wage theft, from the staffer who should be doing the work, and from the reimbursee forced to do it, purely for the purpose of channeling often public university funds into private app developer coffers and it sucks.

Ooh the bubble.... Pop pop pop

You asked for it.

Screw sector rotation. The pot and chatbot economy will save us.

this is why rubrics affect relationships with students too, they rightly understand authority differently when it's mediated through rubrics, and why ap and khan academy distort how they think about "college" even in high school

My syllabus contains a promise to my students that I won’t use AI to teach them. I won’t be using this.

If you like your history intelligent, irreverent, and a little dangerous, this one’s for you. Join us at The Mark Twain House & Museum for He Despised Himself: An Evening with This Guy Sucked and The American Vandal - @mattseybold.bsky.social, @thisguysucked.com, @erinbartram.bsky.social

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...

9 is a lot of appearances on a podcast that has 19 total episodes…and has never gotten above a 1-star rating on Apple Podcasts.

Carter is a psyop to make us believe Gordon Gee was actually an okay university president.

According to an early boyfriend, young Sam Altman was “obsessed with” Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” “He chases youth…he has always chased youth,” the friend said. I feel like this is something the English professors need to know.

I learned a new word today, thanks to @hettieobrien.bsky.social, and I think it’s pretty hilarious to détourne a Soviet myth to describe Goldman Sachs bankers in the 1980s. “Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a worker who is inordinately productive, or such workers collectively.”

Really not enjoying how Iwo Jima has clearly been handed down as a talking point for the Republican pundit class this week.

gave my gen-ed lit class @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's process for close-reading as summarized by @profdgd.bsky.social a few weeks ago & it has totally changed how we're able to talk about the assigned reading 🙏

descriptively, lit studies is not a matter of virtues or ethics. normatively, i increasingly believe it ought to be part of our task pedagogically, in the classroom, to think in terms of the good life and human flourishing and to consider how close reading and cultivate associated virtues

This is where I struggle with the conversation around agentic AI models like this: ⓵ yes, it feels like these new models are far more advanced/paradigm-shifting in terms of their capacity ⓶ no, I'm nowhere close to being willing to accept the mass forfeiture of privacy/data required to use them

PSA

These two sentences are all you need from this: 1.) “He remained allergic to un-rigorous thought, no matter its political allegiance.” 2.) “His rejection [of me], in the end, was unequivocal.”

Habermas was right. Alex Karp is an epistemic weapon. A meathead bomb.

English department meetings are sometimes grim, granted. But the idea that they are somehow grimmer than the average meeting of any department, scholastic or otherwise, seems to be exclusively the fantasy of people with degrees from English departments.

Really wishing I hadn’t read this.

I waiver on this question because it’s obvious that not all literary studies scholars are virtuous. But that doesn’t mean that close reading isn’t an ethics. Maybe close reading is the only thing that stood between WK Wimsatt being annoying a department meetings & drowning puppies by the dozen.

What's the point of being an ass, if you only bray but don't kick.

finished Radical Infrastructure the other day — can confirm that it rips

I started with @hettieobrien.bsky.social's "The Asset Class" and it does not disappoint. Will be sneaking back to it ASAP.

Approaching three quarters of K12 educators are women, and yet the EdTech, testing, and "reform" commentariat is...

oh boy

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Kinda wish they'd put "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" back in charge after reading this.

*sees a group of neighbors fighting ICE* “We are going to win!” Five minutes later. *sees someone post a disclaimer on Facebook that Meta doesn’t have permission to use their photos.* “Oh, yeah, no we gonna die.”

Happy fucking Friday to me. Don’t even know which of these I’m gonna crack open first.

in which the kids are alright AND student newspapers continue to light the way "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts+the outsourcing of academic thinking. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it." www.thedp.com/article/2026...

“When they're getting bankrolled to build data centers that take up entire zip codes, they are, in essence, eating the world.” Another great piece by @jacobsilverman.com

I totally understand people who are interpreting this as an implicit endorsement of Anthropic. It's definitely problematic in those terms. It is also well worth watching. At the very least Sanders is once again centering an issue people actually care about which most pols would prefer we ignore.

“Learn Más.” “We Have the Books.” “Matriculatin’ Good in the Neighborhood.” These are just a few samples of the top quality mottoes I can provide for your university at the low cost of $15 million each.

I absolutely loved this little monologue from John. You really have to hear it.

I've read enough of them now to offer this hypothesis: All the books E.D. Hirsch wrote before Cultural Literacy were good. All the books he wrote after Cultural Literacy were not.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Donald Trump's tax, labor and foreign policies – illegal tariffs, illegal deportations and an illegal war – are the three-legged stool of wealth extraction. He's looting America but we’re all paying for his crime. A THREAD.

Listening to David Marno talk about John Donne's "Devotions on Emergent Occasions," & can't help wondering how he managed to make this poem given that, according to Marc Andressen, introspection wouldn't be invented for another 297 years.

Thinking about that list in cultural literacy today, and it reads like a know your meme site (Only for white lawyers born in 1940).

That is correct.

What's the thread connecting OpenAI, E.D. Hirsch, Mark Twain's speculative fiction, and the "demons of 1987"? Seriously. If you have any ideas, let me know, because I only have a week left to figure it out.

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

Matthew Josephson’s muckraking term of art - Robber Baron - was drummed to death in the 20th century, which is a shame, because it so captures men like Andreessen, as it did Cooke & Gould. They know nothing but taking, & therefore cannot understand why their aptitude at it doesn’t make them beloved

Really delighted today to have the second meeting of a new AI-resisters faculty group at my institution. Grateful for the English prof who’s organizing it. A good number of us humanities folks were present, but it was es cool to have an Economist, and Biology and Math prof present…

Fetterman is a world historical scum weasel.