In 2026, let’s get rid of university presidents.

🎇The First 2025 Headline of the Year Finalist🎇 Pretty Obvious

In case you’re looking for New Year’s ideas.

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

Top first-time watches in 2025 - Ikiru (1952) - Tokyo Story (1953) - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) - Woman in Chains (1968) - Paper Moon (1973) - The Funeral (1984) - Au Revoir les Enfants (1987) - Three Colours: Blue (1993) - The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994) #filmsky

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

This is why they invented moving pictures

None of these anti-AI assessment strategies y’all are promoting are at all reasonable for adjuncts or folks who teach asynchronous online classes or who have large large classes. Imagine adjuncting an asynchronous online class of 50 students and doing oral exams.

Anyway I am rewatching GHOSTS OF MARS for the first time since seeing it in the theatre.

Don’t get me wrong, Pam Grier has been steadily employed in film since her debut in 1970, so she certainly has had a good career. But she deserved a much *better* career. Her 1980s, in particular, were abysmal. #filmsky

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

The stars of French cinema from the New Wave era turned out to be 60% fascists, 30% Communists, and 95% sex pests.

"fear of an educated proletariat+ resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education... public education, the closest thing to a lasting success amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Best first-time reads 2025 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters (1&2) - Dhalgren - Mason & Dixon - Sonnets from a Cell - The Long Goodbye - A Wizard of Earthsea - Harlem Shuffle - Crook Manifesto - Scientific Marvel: Poems

Best first-time reads 2025 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters (1&2) - Dhalgren - Mason & Dixon - Sonnets from a Cell - The Long Goodbye - A Wizard of Earthsea - Harlem Shuffle - Crook Manifesto - Scientific Marvel: Poems

The stars of French cinema from the New Wave era turned out to be 60% fascists, 30% Communists, and 95% sex pests.

How could it possibly do this when it is a plausibility generator? Why would I want the most likely sounding response if I am supposedly 'using it as a dialogic thinking space' why would I want any of it??? Why do you think it is possible to improve cognition by doing less of it? I do not get this.

The in-laws wanted me to know that none of the money from their purchases went to the US.

Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning" I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

My eldest dog loves toys very much.

So this happened last night! I wasn't interviewed by Ted Koppel but I did appear on ABC's NIGHTLINE briefly for a holiday horror segment on Christmas Eve, which included a mention of my @severinfilms.bsky.social series THE HAUNTED SEASON on @shudder.com ! See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxrh...

Let’s have a Patrick Swayze Christmas.

Turned on the MST3K stream just as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians began. A Christmas miracle!

Well I’m a bad agnostic and a bad anti-capitalist because I loves me the consumer orgy that is Xmas.

Is Bon Jovi in the Epstein files?

Well I’m a bad agnostic and a bad anti-capitalist because I loves me the consumer orgy that is Xmas.

Most years I make a joke about CHILDREN OF MEN being a Xmas movie. I think it's a good joke! This year, instead, I'll say that it's very bad that the UK has turned on immigrants, like it does in the dystopian movie CHILDREN OF MEN. And I think it will be disastrous if Canada follows suit.

Senior academics: this is why you have tenure. If you’re at this institution, you should put your ass on the line to stand up against this shit.

The urge to add “since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery” to my bio

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

This was the first year I tought our department’s 100-level poetry course. I wanted to have some contemporary Canadian poetry, and used the 2024 list to track down some great stuff. It was a rewarding experience! Think I’ll keep up the practice and make sure to read a few of these.

Excellent tidbit about the actor Who played Caiaphas in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Excellent tidbit about the actor Who played Caiaphas in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Outstanding! @thejoedante.bsky.social visits the @severinfilms.bsky.social Cellar and it’s as great as you’d think it would be! youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y?... @trailersfromhell.bsky.social

This was the first year I tought our department’s 100-level poetry course. I wanted to have some contemporary Canadian poetry, and used the 2024 list to track down some great stuff. It was a rewarding experience! Think I’ll keep up the practice and make sure to read a few of these.

your pick for the one best novel published in 2025, and why?

The Total Asshole is a stock character of mainstream action films. Most have one. Die Hard has at least three: Thornburg (William Atherton), Robinson (Paul Gleason), and Ellis (Hart Bochner). Runner ups are the Johnsons.

The Total Asshole is a stock character of mainstream action films. Most have one. Die Hard has at least three: Thornburg (William Atherton), Robinson (Paul Gleason), and Ellis (Hart Bochner). Runner ups are the Johnsons.

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

I enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man, but it gets an extra star for closing with one of my favourite Tom Waits songs.

Daniel Craig must have a glasses guy.

We gotta get on this shit

Search your camera roll for “Hell.”

Canada’s student-permit crackdown isn’t fixing housing—but it did gut a rural college, wipe out millions in revenue and push an entire region into crisis. https://macleans.ca/society/international-student-caps-are-decimating-canadian-colleges/

The real treasure is hidden near the bottom. #filmsky

When I shovel now, I think, yeah, I get why people drop dead doing this.