a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

can't stop listening to this one youtu.be/XhJ9zwfpSgU?...

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

If I were the opposition party I'd be saying anyone involved in creating this corrupt scheme will be prosecuted but also anyone accepting payments from it will at minimum be required to pay back the full sum with interest

in addition to everything else in it, Dungeon Crawler Carl feels like a vaguely leftist Ender's Game

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

New publication came out today. It's a short reply to a piece by Jimmy Alfonso Licon from me, @hikemix.bsky.social and James Humphries in Philosophy and Technology. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilTech #LLMs #Bullshit

oh is Starmer banging on about steel again

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

holy moly

Joanna Cherry is either ignorant or dishonest about what lesbians actually think about trans people.

Supreme Court of Virginia strikes down redistricting amendment, keeps current maps in place virginiamercury.com/2026/05/08/s... @virginiamercury.com @statesnewsroom.com

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken...” David Hume, Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose work influenced cognitive science & economic theory, born #OTD 1711. Portrait by Allan Ramsay 1754, National Galleries of Scotland

But what makes a prize *looks over glasses* REAL anyway?

'It was a glittering event and an impressive achievement – but unfortunately, detectives claim, the award itself was entirely fake and part of a complex international hoax worthy of a film script.' 1/3

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Probably the Trump Regime thinks vegetables are for poor people and hippies, and animal feed just falls from the sky.

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

The Supreme Court has always been at war with the plain language of the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was always refused to recognize the degree to which they change the constitutional order and empower Congress to legislate against discrimination.

Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach

People are dunking on the £15 minimum wage thing (and, like, I do share the suspicion that they have just taken a popular American slogan and swapped the $ for a £) - but I actually like ending the ban on secondary picketing? That seems to me like a straightforward improvement for worker solidarity.

"why does a man with no balls even need a ballroom?"

I don't do my own research. I post on Facebook until someone else does it for me. Then, I ridicule them.

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

You have to laugh at the descriptions (still) of Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer as being 'ruthlessly focussed on winning'. So ruthless that they have chased winning all the way to the safest wards of inner London, where it is making a desperate last stand against his choices.

Timed essays under exam conditions are much better for some students rather than others who are equally able. For the last 20+ years we’ve been trying to develop alternative assessment methods that are fair to everyone. And now, thanks to AI, we are introducing timed essays under exam conditions.

The reason there will be no ‘fuel crisis’ in the Netherlands is that every town, city, & village in the land is connected by fully-segregated cycle lanes. It’s possible for the Dutch to easily stop driving while fuel is short and prices are high. That’s real energy resilience.

My students, enraged: "I know my own mind! I have control over my own ideas!" Me, unflappable: "Meaning ain't in the head, kids. It depends on your physical and social environment. Triggered? Time to grow up."

Shower thought today: "Remember" is a success term so "if I remember correctly" is redundant.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

Cars and cows converge in the cornfields, consuming 75% of the entire crop. They dominate almost every planetary boundary. lloydalter.substack.com/p/our-planet...

The four kinds of NYC mayor.

Are you a woman in computer science looking for a way to destroy the patriarchy? I have an assignment for you. Yell in my direction.

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

Mario Tennis is the most accurate Mario series. The people who appear to be fighting over the fate of the Mushroom Kingdom are all actually in the same bougie tennis club

Ok guys we can get clever, but we have a word for this and it's called p hacking

Institutional Neutrality is at best a farce for higher ed. What, are we supposed to ignore things like inequality, climate change, or cancer risks as soon as they become political issues? What about state universities--are we meant to pretend that our funding model isn't a political issue?

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

Vice President JD Vance accepts your rights so long as you don't exercize them

shooting your foot to spite your own ass

People say ‘oh we just replaced one Ayatollah with his son that’s not really regime change’ but actually it looks like we probably replaced a semi-constitutional theocracy with a military junta + religious figurehead

Update: Caravello has been acquitted

I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.

When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*. Because they're already there.

I have seen one good example of this plate