There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

One of the triumphs of the American public university and of course the US Constitution has been to create something different. But like our lurching into multiracial democracy in the 20th century, conservatives have never accepted this as a done deal.

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

Excellent point. And, in the long run, most of those efforts have failed and ultimately contributed to strengthening the idea of academic freedom. No guarantees that will happen this time though ...

Essentially everybody involved in "AI" owes everybody else involved in "AI" like a trillion dollars in investments that no one will ever collect on.

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Whether you think limiting student visas to 4 years is a good or bad thing, please comment. Be heard.

Imagine if you worked for the CDC and someone presented you with clear evidence that lycanthropy was real and it was spreading in a US state. How would you convince RFK to help address it

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Anyone who votes to end birthright citizenship as it is understood now, in defiance of clear law and the tradition they claim to value? They are voting to create a permanent underclass of rightness, stateless people in the United States. They are voting to bring back slavery.

But the question of whether we can MacGyver around the constitutional framework we have to make them less relevant is different from the question of whether they need to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

To be clear: I already believe that the Roberts court lacks legitimacy, and that enough members of the court have engaged in open corruption that none of its opinions should be given precedential authority.

They have already twisted the fourteenth amendment past the point of breaking, and I think there are people who think, what's one more twist? But it is a huge twist.

If they let this go, in service to this tyrannical fascist and the horrible fascism that is gripping this nation, they are saying that all of the high and mighty solutions they proclaim we have do not exist, so long as they are in charge.

Every time SCOTUS has taken a right away, they've spoken all high and mighty about well, pass laws, or well, amend the Constitution. We fucking did that.

This is exactly why I argue in The Originalism Trap for a different model of constitutional interpretation. We've seen repeatedly that even the most straightforward text can get robbed of meaning, thus robbing us of justice. So we also need to think about how to read that text and what to do with it

I don't believe the tech companies can actually make real inroads into education (or similarly medicine, etc) without people on the inside extending them (and telling others to extend them) the benefit of the doubt. /fin

In short -- educators should not be carrying water for the AI bros. It's more than just a bad look. >>

How does stuff like this make it past a fact checker in late 2025? "Accurate"? Really? >>

And this strikes me as especially disingenuous. If what's offloaded in the cognitive offloading is the educational experience then the education does. not. happen.

Back to CHE: NO ONE WAS SAYING THAT THE TELEPHONE OR VIDEO GAMES WERE GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE EDUCATION AND WE HAD TO HAVE THE KIDS USE THEM TO BE PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE.

Labeling domestic political opponents as "terrorists" and characterizing a US city as being at war as pretexts for deploying troops against US citizens.

This is why I combust when my colleagues around campus throw up their hands and say "AI is here to stay, might as well use it, teach our students how to use it ethically". Leaving aside that there is no ethical use for genAI, one look at the economics screams that it is not at all "here to stay".

the tech is probably here to stay bc it was made but....the infrastructure is looking like a castle built on sand

I hate that Democrats take weekends off while Republicans use weekends specifically to advance their efforts

We can make decisions extremely quickly when it benefits corps (can't let the chance at market domination pass!), but when it's time to protect students/society it's all "tech moves too fast, we shouldn't stand in the way of progress, we'll figure it out later!"

In the State Department’s original tweet, they tagged the wrong Gustavo Petro. Imagine being a random guy from Brazil and waking up to learn you’ve been visa banned from the US

This is not great. Russia continues to use nuclear blackmail. On the plus side, since reactors off for so long, & spent fuel old, we’re not looking at a major release of material to environment absent unusual & unlikely circumstances. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Prior to the pandemic, many saw medical treatments as a source of achievement

On the eve of the pandemic, 69% of U.S. adults said being a world leader in scientific achievements was very important. 🧪 www.pewresearch.org/science/2020...

This is a really important read about how the current capitalist formations are shaping what books are available to readers and which writers get a chance to publish a book: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... #BookSky

I serve on an NIH study section. I looked up the number of projects funded from that review panel for the last year. ~24 grants in 12 months. This is a massive cut

And it comes with that handy repeating revenue payments hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/04/10/t...

the fact that healthcare is a for profit industry in so many ways should raise concerns but also the response should not be "abandon science, embrace conspiracy"

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration. But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

All of this is so deeply upsetting because children will have preventable febrile seizures, mothers may miscarry due to untreated fever, and some pregnancies will be more challenging due to unmanaged pain. There are no upsides to this reckless misinformation from the top just harm and pain.

In his original video, before he edited it, he told advises pregnant people to take Motrin instead. 😬😬

There is a very popular TikToker who calls himself doctor, and wears scrubs and a surgical cap but he does not have an MD or DO. He’s a chiropractor. He got on TikTok and told people that it’s actually dangerous for pregnant people and children to take Tylenol. 1/2

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

Frame: this man is here illegally Negation: actually his paperwork is in order Kirby: this is a racist attack by fascists bc a Black man is leading a school district, and the better he's doing the more they hate him

Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

Another old-school antivaxxer joins RFK Jr's CDC.

“I was out there today because being part of a music collective gives me the strength and courage to do brave things, like sing beautiful songs at people who wish us and our neighbors harm.”

The only thing that should alarm the parents of the school district are masked ICE goons who are clearly menacing the community

Teachers: A "tremendous advocate for students, families, staff, and the community" School board: An "integral part of our school community" ICE trash: "Should be a wake-up call ... How this illegal alien was hired ... is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district"

I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better. My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting

In FY25, the University of Vermont had 39 H1B beneficiaries approved. In 2016, I was one of them. What this country, my adopted country, my child’s country, is doing is monstrous and will have grave repercussions for all Americans well beyond this current presidential term. This is so sad to see.

Fucking egregious. You know this coward was thrilled to beat A&M to this one.

NEW: Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA's response to natural disasters. But she fast-tracked $11 million+ to fix a Florida tourist attraction — after one of her big donors reached out. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Some say Charlie Kirk did Politics the right way, that he was an authoritative champion of free speech and discourse. Part of that “Politics” is a 1200-person Professor Watchlist that’s led to harassment, censoring, cancellation campaigns, and death threats.