"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

"Researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers..." Pro-death administration.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

And for those who do cite fake papers, just think: this is then in your paper forever. Will it be discovered when you're up for tenure or a job? Will your kid find it out when they read your work to see what their parent did all those nights and weekends?

We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Why is it always "everyone wants to know" what Gen Z Republicans THINK but what Gen Z baristas on their longest ULP strike ever FEEL? 🤔

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Maybe if I sigh heavily enough it will produce enough force to propel me through this day

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

My response to anything over the next two weeks

I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning." bsky.app/profile/astr...

given how much cheaper touchscreens are than having to tool and manufacture physical switchgear, the safety data must be really bad for automakers to be voluntarily shifting back to real controls

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Have to say that I recently received a review that stank of AI and let me tell you, I was angry. Specially because a student was the first author, and missed the opportunity of dealing with a review that actually benefited their paper.

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Filho de nazi que fugiu (como os covardes que são) pro Chile, ganhou bolsa da Ford Foundation pra ser um chicagoboy, ele não é só apoiador do Pinochet, ele sintetizou a essência de chorume da alma do Pinochet. Sinto muito pelos nossos irmãos chilenos.

Periodic reminder: you can make an AI-free Google search your default. Here's how, for multiple devices, browsers, situations: tenbluelinks.org (Or use other search engines.)

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

decorating WITH cats

When universities stop serving the common good and start serving their corporate interests: "Deception, deflection, and disregard: How UMich is forcing a data center on Ypsilanti." #AcademicSky www.michigandaily.com/opinion/colu...

This infuriates me. They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately. We have no recourse. writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...

The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Writing about various aspects of the AI bubble that we should pay more attention to in 2026. Part One is on AI geopolitics: attempts to replace the petrodollar system with a "technodollar" system, Sovereign AI, exporting inference to the gulf, and more thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-ai-bub...

“Marco Rubio is currently the acting Archivist of the United States” is a phrase that should come with a content warning I’m about to have an aneurysm

Today @americansunlight.org published a report we've been working on all fall, detailing the worrisome connections and quack science in the MAHA movement, the Bolsonaro health ministry's failed COVID policies and President Trump's "gold standard" HHS: americansunlight.substack.com/p/how-maga-u...

NO to crypto apologists. YES to cryptid apologists

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech. Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.

Never talk to me or my giant plastic wife *ever again*.

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

The only ones allowed to complain about wind farms are locals and scientists working against green sacrifice zones and land grabs: salvaging wind with safeguards for biodiversity and people in the vicinity and a public pathway with social benefits. With gen AI data centres, devastation is intrinsic.

⚠️ A ampliação no uso de água para o data center do TikTok em Caucaia acende um alerta: o consumo autorizado passou de 19,7 mil para 144 mil litros por dia, em um estado que enfrenta seca em 16 dos últimos 21 anos.

“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"

It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.

this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

look I don't care how common the names "William" and "Smith" are, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wrote Slow Horses and that's that