I need to go take one pass through the inbox because today was a shit show of meetings and I want to actually write tomorrow.

So in theory someone from my Educational IT dept went through my course materaisl to help me get them ready for TItle II But he edited PDFs....which are based on Word documents that I edit every semester. So I'm uploading to Canvas, figuring out what isn't right and editing Word Docs...

Please remember our most important mascot for responsible internetting, especially in this current climate:

What do you call a dog who does magic tricks? A labracadabrador.

Going to the gate at the airport to watch someone get on or off the plane. Eating a goodbye meal with them at the airport

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Today I'm going to a local kiddo's fundraiser for Connections for the Homeless and Paws and Claws -- both orgs near me doing great work. she's making crepes and coffee and origami !

@nicholasptr.bsky.social ewww you use all Gen AI images

What an amazing new collection available from KUMC. Bravo to the team who spent significant time carefully ensuring the availability of these unique historical documents.📚 Florence Nightingale Letters digital.lib.ku.edu/kumc-nightin... #Nursing #FlorenceNightingale #DigitalLibraries

The Cook County Clerk’s Office and Chicago Bears this week launched Defenders of DA’Mocracy, a program to train 150 high school juniors and seniors to serve as election judges during their schools’ early voting day on Feb. 26.

A January Flash Food Warning #ThisIsFine

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Email from my coach. No really, that's the firm I work with

Something I've been thinking about lately is the need to separate actual AI machine learning stuff from LLMs and whatnot. Lotta really smart folks saying some really smart things in this area, and my thought is still a bit unformed, but distinction would help resisters pry schools away from AI. 1/

The thing that jumps out to me here is that the article says the doctor’s *colleague* went looking for the fake studies. It suggests the doctor who used ChatGPT didn’t check for himself and uncritically assumed they were real. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hosp...

Meanwhile, Rosenberg also consistently displaces accountability: "AI" hasn't done anything. Companies have amassed large collections of stolen art and used them to produce systems with which they and others can create synthetic images. >>

Well, I'm not surprised but I'm not thrilled about this. Daniel aggressively campaigned on his second term mayorship that he was committed to Evanston. That lasted until about sixteen seconds before Jan publicly announced retirement. evanstonnow.com/schakowsky-w...

If you pursue NIH funding, please do take a look at this proposed NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and provide feedback by March 18. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... There is quite a lot of new security and potential new documentation and process here. Cheers from your neighborhood Data Librarian

email was down for two hours today and now they want me to believe I haven't gotten any emails since about 6 p.m. ... uh huh, sure.

Good for investors... Well that is certainly one priority

I noted this description about the new Eloisa James book "She will be shifting her narration to first person, which is the preferred style of today's readership" And that sounds awful and moves the book to a "maybe I'll check out" list smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/12/juli...

It's a mouse study .... but now I have visions of elderly mice, creaking around with walkers and oversized cardigans

Also I am annoying the Small Gray Cat by loving on her rather than giving her snacks. So she's purring but I am also getting thwappy tail

Me: I bought so many books in 2025. I should try to cut back a smidge Also Me January 3: OH LOOK a 50% off sale My Partner on January 5: I have a gift card let's go back to the 50% off sale tomorrow. Oh dear...

Wait so Hugh Jackman is going to be sad Robin Hood and a dead shepherd whose flock needs to investigate his murder this year?

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

In which I knit miniskeins, but really mostly only for @romancingthevote.com hedgehogknitting.blogspot.com/2026/01/mini...

I suppose this is one way to claim how everyone "uses" copilot

This excellent response by @chuckwendig.bsky.social to the whole " you just need to accept and embrace LLMs as authors" terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Made more oatmeal bars today. Today was this recipe piesbypaula.com/baked-peanut... Next time would add more peanut butter

New Do-Not-Pet friends nearby phys.org/news/2025-12...

Oh I'm here for anything new by Cathy O'Neill! New podcast!! AI Skeptics mathbabe.org/2026/01/03/n...

Oh this looks good Murder in Manhattan by Julie Mulhern smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/murd...

This reminds me of "pre-decisional"

Does anyone have right to hand a favorite AI circular investment image from q3-q4 2025?

@bree is there a joy&spite clicky button in the shop? If no, could there be? *Makes hopeful eyes*

Well, I made it to but not thru the third day of the new year before buying more books. A Barnes and Noble near me is having a 50% off moving sale.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I have a drying rack that I set up in my tub every time I do a line dry load

Chicago's essential dive bars Vol. 2: The history and legacy of 12 more iconic watering holes. blockclubchi.co/3XzrHDf

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

I am tempted to email the students who submitted nearly identical LLM-generated cover letters back to them, ask them to pick out which one is theirs, and then ask why I should hire them for a writing position.

"Over the last decade, I’ve participated in rigorous research, traveled the globe, and spoken to thousands of women, leading to an astonishing discovery: you are totally fucking fine the way you are."

Widge would like to report that I am less available today for cat snuggles and she will be reporting this to proper authorities

My hospital system is now requiring masks for all patient care, staff, clinicians and patients. All the respiratory viruses are upon us

My Data Squid noted this banner on the NIMH NDA repository over break. It makes me wonder what data they are trying to remove/collapse/make less correct -- I suspect moving towards gender binaries if nothing else. And these are controlled repos so we can't grab copies.

Good morning and welcome to the 2026 Work Inbox. First question, as I am clearing things out, do I tell Advancement that all of their emails -- because they don't register as from our domain probably -- ended up in spam?

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

We're hiring! Senior position in the learning sciences. "We seek a scholar whose research has focused on the development & application of learning technologies to achieve just & equitable educational learning opportunities, teaching practices, policies, & systems." careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread