“Why is Iowa uniquely plagued with cancer? Well, what is unique about Iowa?” asks @artcullen.bsky.social. “It’s the most cultivated place on Earth, first of all ...”

Y'know what? LOTR reboot. Lupita Nyong'o as fucking Aragorn LFG

gasp, you don’t say! the most obviously predictable thing happened when the lying machine was rolled out in healthcare?

The future of education is students learning nothing and professors not being aware of that.

slightly increase a band Jefferson Starship wait

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

most people’s experience with AI is 1) it doesn’t work but the boss is trying to replace you with it 2) it *does* work and the boss is trying to replace you with it 3) it works and its function is racism/misogyny 4) it works and its function is to kill people

Being in higher ed right now kind of feels like watching administrations steer your ship directly at the iceberg, while everyone on board is pointing and screaming, and they’re like, “yes we know isn’t it beautiful?”

Tiny bees of early spring! I'm slowly getting better at Tiny Bee ID & did a little rundown of the genera of bees you're likely to see. Dime, bumble, & honeybee for scale. granted, this species range is for March/April & it is now May so I'm running behind, but bit by bit, I'm building up resources!

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

Absolutely fascinating how nearly every teacher and professor I know is now overhauling their pedagogy to put everything on old-fashioned paper, while (and in large part because) massive investments in AI like this roll in. I have no idea what will come of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Did they take Giuliani to Cedars? www.cedars-landscape.com

AI’s apparent inability to generate interesting and unique images and videos is becoming harder to ignore. A computer scientist explains why they weren’t surprised about OpenAI’s decision to shut down video generation tool Sora.

A tough day for Anthony Bradford stans! #Seahawks

Situation in the microforest

Is that good? Asking for Wisconsin.

The Mariners are now 4-0 since the Ichiro statue’s bat broke

The lesson for us here in the US is that we need to run a candidate named John America.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

New approach to department meetings just dropped

Survey on attitudes towards AI. 100-level college class, n=44, January 2026

I wouldn’t say I’m a luddite, but, even working in IT, I struggle to find a use-case in which AI performs adequately. And, remember kids, it’s a *terrible* search engine

I know I don't understand the world we live in anymore when the hardline right-wing Iranian government (or whoever is putting these out) can follow up a near-Armageddon staredown by deciding "OK Trump is Drake and we are now Kendrick Lamar"

Voter 242. Go vote for Chris Taylor, Wisconsin.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

"once the top line drops into the fossil range, you pay more upfront to also pay more later for LNG, etc. Nobody will do that" Exactly.

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Pope is welcome in my Stuart Hall reading group

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"You're absolutely right, the pod bay doors don't seem to have opened—good catch!"

The semantic evolution of "wetland": Pre-1945: saturated agricultural soils used to produce taro, salt hay, and sometimes (as here) saturated soils drained for ag use. Post-1945: a natural place with standing water or saturated soils, a less-pejorative term for "swamp" Images from 1942 and 1947

Faaaaaaaaaaascinating. This from one of the UW Deans for Research. tldr: Google AI research grants contain too many poison pills for many R1 research univs, mostly regarding IP and indemnification. As usual, AI capital can only work by transferring liability and costs for all their damages.

Also: sky still blue

I am 100% on Team Handwriting. We need this for the same reason we need to learn math, even though calculators exist. If the past few years hasn’t convinced you that we need to retain basic non-digital human skills, I don’t know what to say.

Endlessly hilarious that a rich king (Trump) is literally ordering divination (A.I. inputs) from an oracle (OpenAI) to fight a losing battle against the Persians Croesus-core stays losing

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Is it a giant wooden horse

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

Fuck yeah Philly.

My baseline “Never bet against any randomly-chosen man being a rapist or abuser” remains undefeated.

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.