pioneer of the Oopty-Oop

A "professor of civics education" at OSU's much ballyhooed intellectual diversity center (funded by McCarthyites, of course) punches documentarian who deigns to ask Gordon Gee a single question. The ironist who coded this simulation has no sense of subtlety.

And then, did we learn more, as time went on?

They’re not helping the majors get into the classes they need or writing the 1 million reports required by admin or showing up at the thinly attended colloquium. Anyway that’s who’s in the Epstein files.

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

There is no way to fix the core problem, which is that the statistical production of symbols by definition is not based on their meaning

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Imagine having so little shame that you would then fire someone for pointing out that publicly smearing anti-genocide students for protesting Ezra Klein is wrong.

Immediately concedes this was a smear with no substance behind it whatsoever.

If anything is a CIA op it’s this fucking post. Truly shameful behaviour.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

I can't stop thinking about that detail It horrifies me

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

I can't imagine why a university would pass on hiring someone with a long history of citing fake data to support her weird theories, and who once had her entire book obliterated when an interviewer informed her that it based on a term she failed to research, and thus didn't understand.

Hey is anyone still downloading big federal datasets, or harvesting dot gov web pages

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

nothing makes me feel more out of touch with how people consume media than "these video podcasts signed a deal with Netflix"

In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.

bob's java jive, route 99, tacoma, washington, 1980

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

This has me reflecting on born digital history projects. In recent weeks, I tried to access a few fantastic ones—all less than a decade old—and was met with dead links. With the death of the open internet and humanities funding more generally, what is going to happen to these projects?

Repositories are going to real quickly move back to the "open to qualified researchers" policy

One interesting statistic from the article followed by two equally interesting statistics about U Nebraska:

#CFP: Our Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) invites proposals for the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle. Please save the date & reshare! Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend

If you're curious about other potential places to put your ideas online, here's an overview I threw together for a small group of other higher ed folks a couple weeks ago. It's definitely more of a "where might I…?", not a "how do I…?" overview! But if that's where you're at, hopefully it'll help?

Nick Estes's OUR HISTORY IS THE FUTURE “traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines.” Read @haymarketbooks.org nonfiction this fall! #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2214-o...

Seeking funding for my Hot Ones knockoff. It's exactly the same as Hot Ones, except for every question you eat a pizza roll that was microwaved for 5 seconds longer than the last.

Thanks to all the scientists, archivists, and data hoarders mobilizing to defend against the censure of life saving medical research for using accurate descriptions of sex and gender. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This webinar on how to negotiate contracts to set better terms around AI and data was one of the best we've done. It's relevant to a number of different communities and creators, not just libraries! @libraryfutures.bsky.social archive.org/details/resi...

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

"We should measure the impact of actually existing AI rather than worry about terminators or gray goo. And in this respect, while it's early days yet, the labor market effects are mostly justifying layoffs rather than increasing productivity. But there are strong use cases in surveillance fascism."

Incredible number to end October with.

I saw some horrible copy on a Chili's menu tonight: HUNGRY? Get ready not to be

Jesse Welles is the Andy Borowitz of folk rock

Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard: “We will miss his insights and his wisdom” Student: “NO WE WON’T” dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao