lately the chumbucket ads I've been seeing on local news pages keep featuring (ai generated?) stock images of old dudes in marine uniforms, usually screaming

my #ATmosphereConf talk is today! come to room 2301 at 11:30 if your interests include equitable platform governance, care work and workers, and avoiding the failures of ~Big Tech~: atmosphereconf.org/event/eqVMWz0

I know this won't happen because of nostalgia, but Seattle should really take this opportunity to rename their NBA team. Supersonics is phenomenally bad-an attempt at boosterism for a technology that immediately flopped from a company since destroyed by financialization that's aiding in war crimes.

I've never encountered anything that feels more like what's happening inside my head 24/7 than angine de poitrine

This isn't even that new. In 2009 a friend of mine had the chance to redo a lab report and then was sent to academic affairs because it came back 90% plagiarized (from the original submission). Overreliance on this stuff is the laziest possible pedagogy and turns the teacher into a cop.

It makes sense that the top four single-game NBA scoring performances were all done by Republicans.

Here's a short thread about some political and intellectual icons and their work at, and appreciation for libraries.

I just read Michelle Caswell and Bergis Jules' on funding for community archives, and you should too. Their argument: we need a strategy for large-scale private philanthropy to sustain community archives and ensure the survival of the stories they tell. medium.com/community-ar...

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

remember when centrists would call you an insane person if you said jeff bezos ownership is going to run the washington post into the ground

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

the distinction between “the dumbest, meanest asshole at the Klan meeting” and “‘race-science’-curious rich guy” is a nice suit and a thesaurus

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?