Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.

The University of Oklahoma faculty senate needs to take a strong position in defense of the right of instructors to evaluate student performance along the metrics set out in the syllabus.

If only Sen. Tuberville were required to complete by hand in front of a proctor the paperwork to run for Governor... But at least the Dems have a good candidate to expose that Tuberville's literacy stops at X and O.

Here's good news. The number of humanities majors is up a lot at one of the top public universities in the U.S. ls.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...

Awesome

Or, Trump Regime Again Violates the Law and Causes Irreversible Damage

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How 'bout no more listening to Sam Altman. Here's Gary Marcus vindicated: The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

Another piece bemoaning a lack of "viewpoint diversity" among college faculty. Do the authors acknowledge that disciplines have their own politics that don't map onto partisan elections and make the "too many Dems" criticism a lazy category mistake? Nope. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

When the AI bubble pops it will destroy your 401k *and* the obscenely wealthy people responsible for it will get a huge bailout with your money. They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent. Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine

A stirring rebuke -- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is absolutely the case. Brown just agreed to Trump Regime review of course evaluations.

Lit studies friends and associates on Blue Sky, this really fine special issue intro by Merve Emre & Justin Sider could use a boost

As an educator in Oklahoma, I'm very gratified that our Sec of Ed Ryan Walters is finally getting the national attention he has sought so shamelessly & cynically. Now let's hope it hurts rather than helps his run for Governor

Imposing AI LLMs on curricula & Learning Management Systems (eg Canvas) should be added to this list of the creeping authoritarian ruin of public education. Is AFT fighting against Open AI & the like?

What the hell is a rescission? I’ll explain.

Agreed, even if it ruins Bill Clinton too (or is that a bonus?)

Do you think the conservative justices had a “what if we just stopped pretending” conversation or did they all just lock eyes across the room at some point and know it was go time

THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza

So MIT's endowment effectively loses its non-profit status but churches keep theirs & can now sermonize about who deserves their congregants' votes

No doubt George Mason U should be investigated ... for letting the Koch Bros dictate curricula (& not DEI initiatives) www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/u...

Trump appointments are either carnival-barkers for the cameras or no-show, do-nothing mob jobs

men will literally invent a new political party instead of saying “sorry i elected the fascist”

Did not know 'til now that "Ted" is this excellent ... & exactly right

Coming soon to the Oklahoma State Content Standards for US History: Civil War ended in 1869. (Trump's Big Lie about the 2000 election already became mandated content earlier this year.)

why am i not surprised he doesn’t understand that no means no

But seriously, I hope I never hear again that someone like Bill Clinton endorses someone like Andrew Cuomo. Both are relics of a bygone era that needs to be forgotten by the Dems

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

"Dangerously close to normalizing autocracy" was reached with the too-big-to-fail bank bailouts back in 2008

This Presidential threat via social media is reason enough to invoke the 25th, if only the Cabinet were peopled with functional adults

Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace tried to warn that 9/11 would be used to ignore the grave danger of millions more McVeighs

Mass civil resistance movements are far and away the most effective strategy for defending against authoritarian takeovers. We all have a chance to be part of a movement that can stop Trump from becoming a full-on dictator. Get to a protest this weekend.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS OKC” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Everything must go! Fire sale!

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

What a loss. My next two thoughts: 1) fondly recalling his chatting kindly with me in line at Trader Joe's in Irvine, CA years ago & 2) the Nobel people had their chances

Have you been wanting to sue the government? We can help. Just donate to the @modernlanguage.bsky.social under "Pave the Way" at this link, and you'll be supporting our lawsuit against DOGE and the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Understand that Trump won’t give up power willingly; malignant narcissistic sociopathic fascists don’t—by definition. So if his power is waning in Congress, it makes him _more_ dangerous—as he’s not going to allow separation of powers to stop him. We mustn’t apply conventional analyses to this man.

Unitary executive as empty vessel. Journalists are asked to push back for real answers, but why does anyone pretend he knows or understands anything? He is dumb beyond understanding.

Amen to this:

Deplorable & I don't mean Rep. Green

Chief Justice John Kingmaker Roberts

In Iowa, Sanders had local folks talk - a poli sci student, a military guy getting his MD, a COSTCO organizer, and a recently fired national park worker. When he spoke, we stood and clapped so long we made *him cry. Let’s go red state reps, you REALLY don’t want to sell out our land and future 👏👏👏

A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

Our President likes military veterans who don't get themselves fired by DOGE

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

OpenAI, who just weeks ago openly pleaded that observing copyrights would destroy their business model, accuses DeepSeek of stealing their IP. The U.S. President signs an executive order “Ending Indoctrination” by mandating “Patriotic Education.” On. The. Same. Day.