Some of us in academia feel the same…

I think education researchers considering applying for these funds must be clear-eyed about Anthropic and the company's decision to partner with Elon Musk's xAI for its compute power at Colossus 1, the same Colossus 1 that's deepening environmental racism by poisoning the air in Memphis, Tennessee.

Also this was the culmination of what I forced each of out the last 3 days which was surprisingly heartfelt and vulnerable. Please click like and subscribe mmcarrigan.substack.com/p/dads-junk-...

Slowly working my way through _Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability_ and basically retyping the whole book as I take notes, pumping my fist, yelling "yes, this yes!" direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

‘if you don’t learn to use AI, you’ll get left behind!’ 🍆✊ www.patreon.com/posts/155290...

Here we go. A running list of studies that show the harm of using "AI" has on individuals. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

say it with a full chest: "SHARED GOVERNANCE IS HOW UNIVERSITIES STAY HONEST"

I was listening to IBCK on bullshit jobs and thinking of how essential so many jobs turn out to be in our bot-age, that we need people to maintain systems, build institutional memory, provide real customer service and information. The zeal to replace people is making people seem irreplaceable.

Well done.

Can't recommend enough organizing spaces for AI skeptics and haters in higher ed to talk to each other!

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

There are a lot of people who see this shit for what it is and want no part of it

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching. It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.

so exciting that this book is in the world it is fierce and rigorous and also fun to read

I read an earlier version of this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're out in these streets teaching modernist poetics then you NEED this sharp and sensitive account of the racialism attaching to narratives of poetic form in the early twentieth century.

In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.

my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying Turn the guns into plowshares, please

stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on

This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!

In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.

starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life mac mail search that actually works scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res citation format conversion generator reliable synching of bluetooth devices

I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social

I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a @uncpress.bsky.social

i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology

This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)

be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.

I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend

I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”

I am deceased.

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle