Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?

Most people are decent, honest folks trying to do their best in challenging times. Except for that one coworker who kept trying to convince me The Orville was better Star Trek than Discovery. No thanks, Dude.

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

If your political party is pro-masks for law enforcement but against people wearing masks for their health, maybe you should think about your party affiliation. #dontatmebro

The only thing more dreadful that living terminally online, is to be unaware that you are living terminally online.

John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

This week on Tony's Teaching Tips, I wrote about "Thinking Big and Lofty with Course Design" www.patreon.com/posts/thinki...

Me: "Ok, I get it, that does sound kinda rough, but you're also telling me you never have to attend Zoom meetings?" Sisyphus: "..."

My 150th Connections puzzle fro your Friday enjoyment: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

Thread. Columbia's cowardice is cataclysmic in both its scope and the effects it will have on the rest of higher ed.

When Larry Summers is the moral conscience of your institution, that's a big problem

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before. Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators. Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK… 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

This is such an insightful, well-written piece about popular culture, politics, and superheroes.

I think the people who don't understand what Superman is about are might really dig the Earth 3 version

This is ridiculous garbage. The tone and structure of the story is “mayoral candidate invents racial identity in failed attempt to be admitted to elite school.” The correct story is, “So many diasporas exist that checkboxes don’t let us tell our story. Mamdani comes from a group of people

This week on Tony's Teaching Tips I wrote about "What Does it Take To Develop an Online Course?" A question I am often asked by faculty and administrators: “How many hours does it take to develop an online course?” Read at: www.patreon.com/posts/what-d...

Your Star Wars pals @dmoren.com, @tonysindelar.bsky.social, and Kat return to discuss three pretty good episodes and three not-so-good episodes of Tales of the Underworld, including what makes bad guys compelling, uncertain timelines, and de-/re-canonized characters. www.theincomparable.com/acp/104/

My 140th Connections puzzle for your Friday enjoyment: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

Disney are suing Midjourney AI for copyright infringement and they're going to destroy them.

This week on Tony's Teaching Tips "Context Context Context" www.patreon.com/posts/contex...

Every Friday I like to make a Connections style puzzle where you match words, here's my 138th one: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

Good a time as any to re-up my supernatural detective novel where a big tech company is doing some really shady shit. dmoren.com/writing/all-...

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

when two liars are fighting, and one of them says things YOU want to hear, just remember:

This week on Tony’s Teaching Tips: “Feeling Adrift in the AI World” www.patreon.com/posts/feelin...

Rebellions are built on two seasons of a prequel series. Your Star Wars pals @dmoren.com, Kat, and @tonysindelar.bsky.social return to revisit 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or, as we call, it Andor: The TV Movie. www.theincomparable.com/acp/103/

Happy Friday, my 136th Connections puzzle for you: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

Andor talk with @siracusa.social @legopolis.bsky.social @dmoren.com and @tonysindelar.bsky.social !

Oh, no, the latest installment of the game show I somehow invented, Inestimable, is live! www.theincomparable.com/gameshow/256/ I would ask for forgiveness, but I’m not sorry, @tonysindelar.bsky.social. Features @annettew.bsky.social @lizbethmyles.bsky.social @snell.zone & Brian Hamilton

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to" Ok Gandalf, but that sh*t don't fly in the midwest.

Andor comes to a close, and your Star Wars pals @dmoren.com, @tonysindelar.bsky.social, and Kat are here to cover the final episodes and discuss how we really feel about ziggurats, whether #KatWasRight, and what exactly Star Trek IV is remembered for. www.theincomparable.com/acp/102/

My 132nd Connections Puzzle: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

"What I love about technology is that it's just a neutral tool."

ICE agents *know* what they are doing is probably illegal, which is why they try to conceal their identities with scarves and sunglasses. #AmericanGestapo

BREAKING: A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility reut.rs/43nBobi

Happy Friday, please enjoy my 130th Connections puzzle: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

Wild as well that electing the embodiment of the Catholic Church feels less a relic of the distant past than the concept of a tenure-line assistant professor search!

Andor is a story about how a thousand nameless and unremembered people will have to sacrifice everything so a gay kid who left his home in Space Idaho four days ago can close his eyes and Fuck It We Ball the most important shot in galactic history on the advice of a ghost

Did you know I host a D&D "Actual Play*" Podcast? Did you also know I've been doing it so long that today we released our 500TH episode?!? www.theincomparable.com/tpk/500/ *Actual Play = recording of people actually playing Dungeons and Dragons vs. I guess just talking about D&D?

Observing May the 4th by watching some star wars cartoon.

It's episode 100 of your favorite Star Wars podcasts, and your pals @dmoren.com, @tonysindelar.bsky.social, and Kat are back to discuss the latest triptych of Andor episodes: revenge as therapy, the tension of talking about art, and the importance of cake. www.theincomparable.com/acp/100/

It's Free Comic Book Day! Best day of the calendar year to get into comics if you're not already! Your local comics shop will have special freebies to give away, and sometimes in-store signings, games or other fun activities. If you're in Seattle, I'll see you @phoenixcomics.bsky.social at noon!

Happy Friday, here's my 128th Connections Puzzle for your enjoyment: ko-fi.com/post/Puzzle-...

It's my 600th(!) Conlextions puzzle. lex.games/connections/...

This week on Tony's Teaching Tips: the Ai as forklift metaphor: www.patreon.com/posts/ai-as-...

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!