Stretch every couple of hours. Exercise regularly. Eat better. Drink less booze. Stop using your phone in bed. Do the impossible task that you keep putting off and is weighing you down: it'll probably take you under thirty minutes. Touch grass more than your phone.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I see your, "remove sound description from closed captions that annoy me, a hearing person" and I counter w/ put more details in the CC. I want the sound descriptions. I want the lyrics. I read 4 languages so miss me with the “speaks foreign lang." Give me exhaustive and insufferable deaf-ass CC 😂

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

Doing GOOD historical research is very complex. It’s not gate keeping to say that out loud & expect other scholars to recognize it. It’s not gate keeping to expect epidemiologists to engage in the already existing scholarly conversation about these complexities.

This is NOT good. Disease monitoring and testing and surveillance of food borne diseases are no longer reliably available. Very good article - I recommend reading the whole thing. And source your food carefully and cook it completely. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

To the person angry we weren't "neutral" in our AI Ethics panel: We absolutely should be saying no to technology that poisons the environment. We absolutely should be making moral choices about who we give money to. There is nothing neutral about librarianship. Never has been, never will be.

"Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought." ~ Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton)

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

Assume, like many do, that AI *is* the future. Most advocates, those attempting to act responsibly, still say the key is human interpretation and decision-making. That means we still need to teach students and early careers AS IF they cannot rely on these tools. They still NEED to become experts.

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

One of the BEST things about the US undergrad systems was broad and mandatory GE requirements, that made us explore things even if we thought we knew what we wanted to / had to major in.

One thing I hate about AI: It steals the magic. You see a photo or video online and it touches you. It’s moving. Or poignant. But you can’t stop there. Because maybe it’s fake. It steals the magic.

This is so important. And, having spent many years teaching preschool, I'd add that boys have the inclination and the skills for collective care very early, but they're often socialized *out* of these traits. Encouraging boys' caregiving competencies means allowing them access to their full selves.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Once again pointing to my gigantic sign that says “place descriptions are an element of viewpoint and should be used to reveal character” The lake view a 90-year-old widower whose husband died by drowning sees is not the one a 22-year-old freshly graduated geologist does

A really thoughtful essay on Murderbot: ‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries countercurrents.org/2025/07/even...

80% of the global supply and 100% of the US supply of almonds come out of the Central Valley, just to name one crop in particular.

Interesting thread.

This seems like a good lesson for real life too.

More thoughts on #Murderbot, a.k.a "this is why I don't make reaction videos." My best thoughts always come to me after some time has passed... A lot of the humor in the show is not really humor, but MB's point of view. Humans are messy and emotional and ridiculous; this is a wonderful thing.🧵

‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version

I think that the failures of the millennial generation's attempts to change this system were necessary in some ways because we're often roundly mocked for losing over and over, but we played by the rules and did everything we were told. Every time we looked like we were winning, the rules changed.

I am not built for this weather. I come from cold weather people. I am made for potatoes and rain.

education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"

Any teaching of AI by librarians that isn’t centering its dangers is, frankly, unprofessional. 📚 #PubLibs

In the old days, we used to make fun of 50-year-olds for spreading forward forward forward forward forward emails, often containing stories that are lies, but now we just do that on social media and it's way easier and no one admits it's the same thing

The US *already* has a physician shortage and it was *already* predicted to significantly worsen (to the point that people’s health could be jeopardized) *before* these policies 😬

This.

Yup. Our foundation donates locally, but what it's doing fundamentally is adding a bit of spackle to the gaps. If you widen the gaps, the spackle can't suddenly act as structural support. That's what functional government is for.

🧵I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about kindness since I've moved here to Aotearoa New Zealand and would like to share some thoughts. (Please bear with me!): 1. Kindness is learned. It's not innate. People are taught kindness by other people. We are creatures that learn by example.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Agreed. It’s become impossible to tell exactly what kind of “AI” we’re talking about. I hate LLMs, which is most of the crap being shoved into tech in inappropriate ways, but other tools have value & we can’t differentiate them bc it’s called AI. We need to be using specific, clearly defined terms.

Yup. Also, when every site starts filling up with junk novels, it makes it less likely for people to take a chance on authors they’ve never heard of or haven’t tried, and people eventually stop trying. A giant crapton of bad books ARE a threat to good books.

I haven't known what to say in recent months. But the Boss knew exactly what needed to be said. And he said it. Loud and clear. Bruce Almighty open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

This is amazing. Some of the most useful exercises when I was in school were looking at newspaper articles & political cartoons. This should be standard.

So far the most effective way I've found to get students to not use ChatGPT is to say, "you can use it if you want to; if you do, here is the list of things you should do to make sure that it doesn't embarrass you" & then have them write a reflection about their choice

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

This thread

The rural folks that drive 20-45 minutes + for services will soon be driving 60+ minutes because there will be no more rural medicine, clinics, nursing homes, whatever if Medicaid gets cut

That tracks. Same with Meta - the only metric they care about is how long they have your attention for... so the shittier their search and the shittier their timeline feeds, the longer you will stay there.

This is good.

Cool project.

I agree with the thrust of this thread but I think it's important to note that free public libraries came out of a period of awful disregard for the common good which spurred progressive reformers to really fight for those things (in the form of libraries, food safety laws, etc.) ...

It’s a tough thing to say, but part of the problem is that people should not need to get a BA in order to earn enough to live. Many of us really believe in the power of knowledge to enrich your life, but that’s not the reason students are being told to go to college. A collision was inevitable.

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-