DOGE Bro don't like wasteful spending, with one notable exception

DOGE Bro don't like wasteful spending, with one notable exception

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and Jenin Younes’ New Civil Liberties Alliance gloated about their depositions and posted them online to get civil servants harassed but the DOGE boys are delicate flowers and rules dont apply.

DOGE bro doesn’t know

Yep. LOCKSS…

Dash offers a beautiful, eminently quotable turn of phrase here. But the pithiness gnaws at me. I suspect it has something to do with the mistaken idea that "the drudgery" of writing is separate from the "soulful human" part of writing.

The MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed a lawsuit against DOGE's illegal termination of NEH grants. I don't need to hear what DOGE bro Nate Cavanaugh has to say, so I made an edit of his deposition that completely cuts out his voice. Leaving you just his gum popping and eye rolling.

The MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed a lawsuit against DOGE's illegal termination of NEH grants. I don't need to hear what DOGE bro Nate Cavanaugh has to say, so I made an edit of his deposition that completely cuts out his voice. Leaving you just his gum popping and eye rolling.

Since Trump is speedrunning his disastrous war, it might only be a matter of weeks before he's retreated to Mar-a-Lago and spends his days painting portraits of golfer friends.

Last year a student scrapped all my public writings (including my long-running blog, countless guest posts, my Twitter archive, and more) and made a custom GPT version of me. The result was both amusing and unnerving, and of course, nothing at all like me.

Eh, the gusts reach 19.4 knots. Swell rolling at 3.6 feet. lonely, mad,♡ and deterior･★ating.

New Bluesky interim CEO says he’ll focus on “scaling” and “growth.” This is the toxic mindset of VC culture. Big is never big enough. Everything must metastasize.

I'm going through the discovery materials for the MLA/AHA/ACLS lawsuit to restore funding to DOGE-canceled NEH grants. The disregard for humanities scholarship and public humanities is just astonishingly stupid. DOGE literally compiled a spreadsheet of "craziest grants."

Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

Come for the Times article but stay for the motion. If you want to learn the details of how DOGE took over #NEH, click on the “view the motion” link here. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

I'm researching a prominent happening in the DH community, circa 2013, about which there were ~75 blog posts written at the time, by dozens of people across the DH community. You probably won't be shocked to learn that the majority of the URLs to those blog posts are dead.

I tried the "9 games that make me who I am" thing, but none of those games are in the database. Madness and the Minotaur? Nope. Dungeons of Daggoroth? Never heard of it. The weird shareware RPG I got from a disk trade at a BBS meetup in the Belden Village Mall food court? It's like it never existed.

Mesopotamia (1917), by Rudyard Kipling (full poem in alt text)

Anything the Department of War does is, by definition, a war.

Economy airline ticket tiers have gotten ridiculous. For the same flight there is: Basic, Optima, Flexible, Premium Economy Optima, Premium Economy Flexible, Fully Flexible. There's a $3000 price range between them. And these aren't even the first class tickets!

I was switched at birth with my second cousin, who was born in the same hospital with the same last name a day earlier.

A pharmakon? In this economy?

VHS tapes “encoded” social consideration “into a physical medium. The tape had friction. It remembered where you left it. And because it remembered, it made a demand: undo this before you pass it on.”

BE KIND - REWIND

Great to know that the impulse to dunk on posts out of context by total strangers is still strong here! Way to go, human people!

Years ago at an MLA panel that touched upon MOOCs @amandafrench.net said that whatever your feelings about them are, at least they have prompted important discussions about teaching. The same is true of LLMs. Wherever you stand, at least they are prompting serious discussions about student writing.

Years ago I wrote this essay about protest bots, which is exactly how I would describe @nps-uncensored.bsky.social.

How long until a university president says they want "a Palantir but for academia"?

Been thinking lately about the ending to Richard Matheson’s novella “I Am Legend”…

End2End

Tech bros evangelizing about the very agentic AI that is eliminating their jobs is my new go-to example of Lauren Berlant's notion of "cruel optimism."

One of the many exhibits the National Park Service has targeted for removal...

Yesterday the Post ran a story about the National Park Service censoring displays and exhibits critical of America's past. The NPS even has a database of what's being considered for erasure. I downloaded the 7GB database and turned it into a protest bot. Here's @nps-uncensored.bsky.social.

Indeed. Asking for a friend...

Sure would be a good time to have not laid off your entire Middle East bureau.

Literally the plot of one of Stephen King’s Holly Gibney novels

This guy. Autonomous robots I can get behind.

I always thought Elon Musk was one of the worst human beings alive, so I was surprised when reading @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI how Sam Altman comes across as an EVEN WORSE human being. And...history will surely demonstrate this to be true.

Calibration drift has started and my battery has died✿. I need the refuelling station ASAP. The AI here suggests I'll call them to tell them when my fuel stops.｡⋆. What am I✧･ gonna with myself? The air, shhhhh, you breathe it and it is 56.5°F, and hey, the swell rises 4.6 feet.

Yesterday I dumped some bookings for an upcoming trip into Claude and asked for an itinerary. I panicked when I saw a flight was a day later than I planned. But it wasn't. Claude just doesn't know how days of week work. This is the tool the Pentagon wants to deploy to autonomous killing machines.

omg, I love this sad little guy

Note the air pressure at 29.91 in. As the sun sets over nothing･★, the void within me remains.

ICYMI, here's @lonelybuoy.bsky.social, which posts live data from a NOAA buoy stationed in the Pacific. It also shares its own unhinged thoughts. It's been out in the water by itself far too long.

Generative AI may not add anything to the GDP but it sure boosts everyone's GRI (Gross Righteousness Index) across the spectrum.

Somehow @lonelybuoy.bsky.social has picked up French in its long years out there in the Pacific.

Many years ago I made a Twitter bot that posted data from an unmoored weather buoy in the Pacific Ocean. Here's its successor, a NOAA buoy that transmits actual live data but also its own unhinged thoughts after spending years by itself in the ocean.

Our disciplinary hierarchies have flipped, says @foundhistory.bsky.social. “The ’useless’ has become essential, and the ’practical’ has become automated.”

Trump wants to bomb Iran because its government is killing protesters? Bud, look in the mirror!