Pictures of high school and college papers from 1990s. AI-generation do not know the struggle of working hard on a paper only to get a B-.

Except for the Berlin part, basically my world. Oh and my wife demands I take her to this doner place every time we visit family in California.

MI has been 10c as long as I can remember (a quick search suggests since 1978!). When we moved to the East Coast, I was shocked it was still 5c here. And that was a decade ago. Everywhere should be more now - like 25c at least!

Not coincidentally I clicked on a NY Times article on the ideal age to retire. Who knows what higher Ed will look like in 3, 5, 10, much less 20 years.

I wish students understood that they might be citing the acquaintance or friend of the professor. So when they include AI hallucinations, it totally stands out.

Honestly, I'm not feeling the first few episodes of new Stranger Things. It feels redundant. I'm ready for all the loose ends to be resolved. Please don't go out like Lost

Higher ed is clearly under a disingenuous assault. Yet it long had an accountability problem. Pres & coach salaries, Title IX, Varsity Blues, outsourcing, etc. If we survive, there must be some change. The easiest step is to clarify the mission of R1s and everyone else to the general population.

Suddenly thinking about how the battlestar galactica was the only ship to survive the cylon apocalypse because it wasn’t networked. No reason.

“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

My 9 y/o daughter and I are bonding watching #SNME and John Cena'a farewell.

Soon some of these fields will only exist at elite institutions

It's finals week. I don't have access to faculty areas of banner eg. grades. This is the state of academic tech. Head over to social media and reddit. You'll see it's not only your institution. Such is tech in ed. We are dependent on systems which extract public monies for mediocre fixes.

It's complicated, but driving down retention will drive down quality of service. That just furthers the agenda of anti-public transit lobby.

People compare AI to a calculator. This is a different animal. Calculators don't generate formulas, at least you need to know which formula to use and its applicability. I know some educators are trying to keep human decision-making important, but the problem is that students are skipping the "why."

This is one of the reasons the phrase "shared governance" kind of bothers me. Universities are often gerrymandered. I'd prefer phrasing with words such as participatory or stakeholder.

Something I've been thinking about is how higher ed. isn't a typical hierarchical bureaucracy. Lots of committees with psuedo-decision making power distributes accountability in such a way that it's hard to pinpoint.

Something I've been thinking about is how higher ed. isn't a typical hierarchical bureaucracy. Lots of committees with psuedo-decision making power distributes accountability in such a way that it's hard to pinpoint.

SoCalGas is using *efficiency funding* collected from ratepayers to push LA wildfire survivors who lost their homes to build back with *gas* rather than all-electric. Truly bleak stuff. This should not be allowed. Where are our regulators at the CPUC? insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...

The rich already found ways to get richer despite Mamdani's election. Some are ignoring the fact that capital always finds ways to profit even in social democratic systems.

History repeats itself 100 years later: in the 1920s California tried to ban wood shingle roofs after major fires like the one in Berkeley. However, the law was quickly repealed due to the lumber lobby and fans of the craftsman bungalow pushing back. www.fastcompany.com/91423034/as-...

Educators who are fully embracing AI without serious skepticism are essentially saying the following things: F- the environment. F- labor/human rights. F- the intellectual property of your colleagues. Readings below 👇 1/4

Watched Freakier Friday with extended family over the Thanksgiving weekend. The immigration scene certainly hit different given recent news.

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

American politics is like a bad TV show that keeps jumping the shark

It's national. It's reading. McLuhan & Postman saw this coming. Long form reading improve writing & analytical skills. They aren't doing it. This is "bear on a treadmill." I fully admit to skimming & reading reviews (written by other academics). But #CheatGPT skips that.

Yet for about a week Android Auto refused to take my voice navigation requests. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/t...

The fact that this was published says a lot about our world right now. people.com/depression-e...

This is already bad, let's hope the land isn't sold off to private developers. www.post-gazette.com/news/educati...

Daughter and Turkish wife are sticking the meat in mantou 饅頭 steamed buns. Fusion!

Social media is either great or horrible. I'm trying out a homemade döner kebab trick I saw. Let's see how this turns out. If it fails, the lentil soup is good to go

people “embracing” AI in their classroom…you are ushering in the thing that is supposed to replace you not just as instructor but as source of knowledge, after it fed off your blood and guts “embracing the bubonic plague-infested rats in the classroom"

Rally for higher ed. in Philly w/ my @apscuf.org union siblings.

Today is the day! Looking forward to standing up for higher ed across the state! Details: www.apscuf.org/nov7rally

Who has the Power? Rally & Teach-In: Trump, McCormick, and the Billionaires behind attacks on Higher Ed Friday Nov. 7th, Noon - 1pm Outside Senator McCormick’s Office at 20th & Market, Philadelphia. JOIN US! actionnetwork.org/events/who-h...

Making changes to your syllabus, even a little, results in a butterfly effect. Ripples mess up due dates and other things. Ugh

It looks like I need to completely revise my final paper assignment due to the government shutdown. Of course, this is minor compared to all the workers who aren't being paid and are threatened with being fired.

I'm enjoying a new project buzz. Excited about my research right now. I've been digging up archival material, putting together flow charts, putting data into Excel, etc. It's all fun, because it's all new.

"She told the student newspaper that Ursinus took steps... to better align academics with experiential learning and career prep." - If every admin is saying the same thing, how do they compete?

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

This is kind of hilarious. In the 1950s, drywall producer National Gypsum used Muzak to ease "worker tension." Despite the claims, it didn't stop their factory workers and miners from striking.

Going through old labor/union publications for my book project. On my head I'm saying f- Gompers repeatedly for the anti-Chinese stuff that keeps popping up.

Still experimenting with Zotero + Obsidian. I'm finding the Obsidian is a great place to organize archival material and data.

Reading some old school: Baran and Sweezy, Braverman, Chandler, Gouldner, etc.

9 y/o just asked me if I "properly quoted people in my book," because "they have a copyright" (Fu, 2025). She insisted I quote her correctly for this post.

I only met Kent once in person. Yet, it really shaped how I reconcile the history of AANHPI exclusion in pockets of labor and the power unions can bring to the community. I even had a draft email to Kent that sadly did not get sent before his passing. Rest in power.

Today, 9 y/o read an excerpt from CLR James, On Dialectics. Of course, I had to explain dialectics to her. Yes, I'm starting her early.

It's kind of amazing how much archival material has been digitized & made public in the last decade+. When I was a grad student in the 2000s I was still using microfiche or original docs in physical libraries and paying for print outs. Now I'm able to stick PDFs & screenshots into Zotero directly.

Playing with #Obsidian . It's interesting. Trying to figure out how it might help my new book.

Government shutdown making it hard for my students to do Census assignment. Sux. Thankfully, there are data projects out there that help with alternative assignments.