They are true, the Bigfoot emails just haven’t been released yet

Medical billing—the coding part—is absolutely a conspiracy against the laity, and some self-respecting journalist should see how much overcharging happens as a result of it.

Every year, I teach more stuff way outside my disciplinary subspecialty and I can’t decide if this is sad or liberating

In other #gothic news my students cast Adam Driver as Ambrosio in The Monk and booed when I said the studio would probably push for Sydney Sweeney as Agnes

Dracula is about professional specialization and the superiority of modern corporate structures over outdated models of mercantilism and guild structures, plus bats

I think AI might have broken me. Here’s a picture I took in real life of some real-life cormorants I saw in real life. #photography

Hey can we put together a bank of student papers from the last ten or fifteen years with no identifying info or dates and then see if we can grade them and accurately guess their dates of composition so we have some kind of data to justify the refrain of how much worse writing/thinking has become

Ok but for real what if they rebooted Night Court with all Frankenstein characters

The cat deconstructs *itself* #caturday

I think what we’re learning from the new Frankenstein is that almost no one responsible for writing about the new Frankenstein has ever read Frankenstein.

My job makes me a bit nuts but the place is nice to look at

Actual (hypothetical) question— A college provides students with access to an LLM. The LLM encourages or supports student self-harm or worse. Is this a potential liability issue for the college?

Teaching undergrads to use AI is basically like buying them booze to drink at home because at least you know where they are

Court holds that if DOJ brings six more cases, will get seventh free www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

One student cheats: that’s cheating! Ten students cheat: that’s cheating! Fifty students cheat: we have a cheating epidemic! Enough students cheat: we must make the ways students are cheating part of the educational experience and redefine cheating to mean something else

The Oval Office is opposite the swim-up bar and around the corner from the ice maker and vending machines

Is it wrong that I want Alison Janney to yell at me for a few minutes in character as Grace Penn

All the Ellison crap and everything else aside, I would like to know what work the “overly” is doing screenrant.com/paramount-ho...

AI bubble gonna make the South Sea Company look like Pets dot com

Do I allow myself briefly to experience happiness at this news or do I immediately proceed to anxiety over whatever is next

Gotta hand it to the Voyager probes for knowing how early they had to leave to be safely out of the solar system before this administration took over

School says 5 year old kid has trouble focusing and wife says I’m taking it too seriously but I worry that if we don’t address it now, then when she’s older she won’t be able to lock in and complete the prompt asking ChatGPT to summarize her reading

Saving daylight? In this economy?

Parenting achievement unlocked: have nicked some of child’s Halloween candy

Now past the zenith of his Halloween power, the black cat returns to being a thirsty doofus #caturday

There are six different species of bird in the feeder right now and this pleases me very much

I keep hearing about infected monkeys on the loose but nothing about why we should vote for them

Tech companies be like: hey we’re just gonna start constantly punching you in the face everywhere you go because we might find a way to make punching you in the face good for you later and we want to control that space

Way to speak the subtext, Outlook

Can someone who understands tech bubbles explain to me what if anything happens to LLMs post-burst? Do they just persist as porn bots and cheating machines for local use as opposed to the engine of a new Industrial Revolution? #AI

To suggest I am now professionally demoralized wrongly implies that I was ever moralized in the first place.

Me, when everyone wants to carve a pumpkin but no one wants to help scoop it out

How I want my students to see me v. how I am seen

Darcy: It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Lizbot: great idea! Here are three ways you can tell me:

A “reality check” should be a check I get for having to live through this reality

Hey everyone I invented an app where every time you pick up your phone, gyroscopes detect the movement and it shoots two microscopic poisoned darts through your eyes and into your brain. So it’s basically like using your phone now, but you no longer have to endlessly scroll to get the same effect.

It’s just a tool! You remember when spelling 80085 on your calculator made you fall in love with it? Or that time you went to Gretna Green with your Dewalt DCK0222M1 20V Max XR cordless string trimmer? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...

The attitude towards AI on my campus seems to be “other colleges are already enshittifying themselves with this and we can’t afford an enshittification gap.”

The longer you live you more you realize that even the smart people are stupid

Me: *reads book to daughter that mentions a CD* Daughter: what’s a CD Me: it’s a shiny flat disc that you put into a machine to play songs and music Daughter: that’s silly, music comes from outer space

Ok but we should at least see Susan Collins’ chest tattoos too before we make any big decisions here, right

@daveybot.bsky.social Professional thoughts on the super skinny Manhattan tower that’s falling apart? Is this the architects’ fault? Engineers’? Billionaires?

I want more respect and recognition. What do I have to do, short of earning them?

Turns out the real treasure was the friends we made talking about the friends who stole the real treasure from Louvre

New Terminator movie where Skynet becomes self-aware and decides to just wait humanity out for a couple-three years to avoid all the fuss

Why is none of my internet down? Why the fuck is none of my internet not working?!

The #Louvre heist raises an important question. Delusional people used to think they were Napoleon. Does that still happen? If not, who do they think they are now?

They could have stopped the #Louvre heist

Plausible deniability, from The festival of humour; or, banquet of wit (1800). #NoKings

Ok how about, in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation, *some* kings?