are there any more things like this

customer slopport. is this anything

Banksy unmasked! wrong answers only

Timothée ChalNOTamet amirite

to all who celebrate this annual tradition

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

Wow. I was JUST thinking about that Bradbury story. This Soviet animation takes the story a bit further. Some days I feel like that bird at the end, trying to escape into the screen of utopia while the victrola is still playing a sad song…

One bit of fun today - I was at last able to use this gloriously dystopian 1984 Soviet short animation "There Will Come Soft Rains" (based on the 1950 Ray Bradbury story) as part of my teaching on smart homes earlier. The fictional apocalypse date is set for August 2026! Watch for yourself here:

This great article underscores two key things about AI: 1) words matter: the term "algorithmic bias" misshapes how we confront AI risk 2) remedies for bias that anthropomorphize AI are counterproductive — read your Donna Haraway

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Banksy unmasked! wrong answers only

I have a critical theory joke and you won’t care that you don’t understand

belonging is ALWAYS about power relations. full stop. new paper, finally out last Friday: it explores how belonging as a signifier is being shifted in contemporary higher ed, risking the term's weaponization amidst the broader attack on DEI & institutions. static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15...

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with @karenhao.bsky.social and John Palfrey. You can find the recording at www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM8...

Watched Deadloch on Dr. McMillan Cottom’s recommendation and it was fantastic. Maybe no show ever has better navigated lol humor, smart takes, and dramatic suspense…

The internet site digg — relaunched on 14 Jan 2026 — closed again yesterday, lasting just 5.36 scaramuccis (or 1.34 trusses for those using imperial measurements). Thank you for your attention to this matter.

While it's tempting to apply Betteridge's Law to this headline and dismiss it with a quick "no", the piece raises a compelling topic. If I were to continue the discussion, I'd bring in long-running TV series that center antiheros like Always Sunny, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Married With Children, etc.

not scamble? in this economy?

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

In a few hours I’ll be reading live from the Overture of my next book in a virtual talk at U Edinburgh’s History & Games Lab. This is the first time any part of the book has been read in public, or by anyone outside of my circles of trusted first readers (& MIT’s peer reviewers)

THIS 👇 and not just for the topic addressed by the OP — maybe for every topic

📣📣 FULL U.S. BOOK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣 Starting April 4, I'm going to so many cities that the preview image is tiny font!! Come see me in person and get your book(s) signed. We have lined up an extraordinary array of conversation partners, from novelists to poets and scientists. 📚💙🧪🔭⚛️

Good wishes to @amysampleward.bsky.social and the NTEN team for a wildly successful #26NTC, next week in Detroit! This will be #NonprofitRadio podcast's 12th NTC, capturing convos with smart session speakers for our show.

Another reason to abandon the "hallucination" metaphor for when #AI gets things wrong: The more AI gets tied into human mental health the more we need to keep distinctions clear between what people experience and outputs from the machines they use. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“If you limit the human aspect of the model in your approach to understanding the model, of course it looks like magic; imagine if you were forced to describe a sock puppet without acknowledging the human arm. You'd be terrified of the existential ramifications of that thing, too.”

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PDX Bike Bus leader John Speck from the Clinton School Bike Bus needs help with medical bills after hit and run crash.

in case you were wondering what is the very smallest thing one could do not to obey in advance, I don't think regular citizens are required to call the US Department of Defense anything other than its official name

"We want a logo that says 'We've touched every one of these olives'."

Thus Spoke Hesiod. - languagehat.com/thus-spoke-h... "an account I’ve made over on Bluesky posting a line-by-line translation of Hesiod’s Theogony together with metrical analyses and, since line three, phonological transcriptions of the Greek text."

"Taken together, our findings reflect a societal shift in people seeing AI as being more human-like and warm, and increasingly distinct from other digital technologies." There's a lot to unpack in this analysis of public perception of 12,000 #AI metaphors, but it's a warning about anthropomorphism.

“When you read and summarize a text, you create the neural connections necessary to memorize and apply the information well in an exam, experiment, or research paper. Generating it with a click is a harmful form of cognitive offloading and will erode these skills.”

Come work with us in the Department of Digital Humanities here at @ucc.ie. We've 2 openings at the moment for Lecturer (BB) grade: bit.ly/3P5SFkx

The theme for this year's Local First is user empowerment in an age of fluid software. And yes, that includes atproto, and we'd love to have some submissions to the CFP www.localfirstconf.com/cfp

Lab Day will not be purely filled with talks - but also show live demos, creative experiments, and community projects. A collaborative day that’s part unconference, part showcase, and shaped by the ideas that animate our community. Lab Day is included in your ticket localfirstconf.com

Tickets for Local-First Conf 2026 are now on sale! Join us July 12-14 in Berlin for 2 days of single-track talks, and then a 3rd day we're calling "Lab Day", hosted by us at Ink & Switch

TIL that koalas join humans in the rare trait of having thumbprints. Relieved as that should help solve koala-based crime.

Wait, did @hypervisible.blacksky.app consult on toy story 5?

This study applies space syntax to quantitatively model the 15-minute city concept by using a street-graph where segments within a 15-minute walk of essential services are marked. Read: spkl.io/63320AtLek Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AtLed #topology #AcademicChatter

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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

#OEWeek26's "Town Square for Open Education" is already buzzing, with 78 events added so far. Need inspiration? Check out the cool "Crafternoons" @unmpress.bsky.social OER, celebrating #OER & indie publishing. 📚 #JoinTheFun #WhatAreYouSharing List yours here! -> https://twp.ai/4iwA78

Hey Bluesky! I'm a senior writer at WIRED and I'm shifting beats to cover the tech I'm most obsessed with right now—PREDICTION MARKETS. Eager to hear tips on the industry at [email protected]

Age verification? In this economy?

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Two cowboys secretly pine for each other among the mountain pines. Steeded Rivalry

HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE! Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom. Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!

Two hockey players secretly pine for each other, now in reruns. Reheated Rivalry

Two actors trade differing views on theater and life over dinner at a posh NYC restaurant. Seated Rivalry

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...