senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

These types of greed-driven acquisitions should obviously be illegal, and would be in any country that hadn't wedded itself to the notion that shareholder profit is the most important thing on the planet.

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

France about to do the call an ambulance meme

If you're in line to make a historical reference about the collapse of the French defenses, please stay in line

I do not use ChatGPT as my search engine because, among other things, I understand the difference between looking for the correct thing and looking for the most frequent thing

[Watching the third-place game] is there a mercy rule in soccer

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

"it's an immersive experience" oh! no thank you. i don't like to be immersed

A national day of protest against data centers is planned across the country this weekend, with five scheduled in Kentucky. The rallies are being organized by Humans First, a grassroots movement focused on the rapid growth of the AI industry. From WKU:

Today is something called AI Appreciation Day (wut) and I’m seeing apocalyptic photos across my timeline of wildfire smoke coloring the skies orange and gray, so here’s the Against AI and Its Environmental Harms library one more time:

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Cameras and microphones in a room full of minors, run by a company whose other product line is intimacy tech, should trigger way more scrutiny than "trust us, it's closed." What happens to interaction logs? Who audits that? What's the retention policy? None of that is answered in the reporting. 11/

Ooh, can't wait to read this!

Taking psychic damage upon realization that I now have graduate students younger than my marriage [crumbles to dust, etc. etc.]

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

When all of this is over and we're figuring out how to rebuild society, we're gonna need to commission a fleet of Gender Studies departments

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

Dude just said "two coming togethers [sic] here" to describe the footballers fouling like mad Time to switch back to telemundo I guess

I think I have found a worthy competitor to those portraits of Cécile Mendelssohn that are supposed to be Fanny Hensel.

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

Heard "You're a Grand Old Flag" absolutely blasting at full volume from the men's restroom at our local Kroger this evening. (Did not investigate, sorry)

WHAT: Viktor & Rolf (couture, fall 2026) OCCASIONS: evil queening or evil queen pretending to be a peasant but everyone knows & is like; “No apples for me, thank you!” IF IT WERE A SCENT: stone & candlelit scriptatorium EMOTIONAL RANGE: ascendant/patient, patient, patient #MJMfashionGuide

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Holy smokes, this is a PERFORMANCE

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

A Better World Is Possible

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

Sent these to my therapist at 9 am. I’m totally normal, why do you ask??

I knew that Belgian striker looked familiar from somewhere

That was... not brilliant.

Air to Ground Message: HELLO CAN YOU TELL US THE SCORE FOR ENGLAND VS MEXICO THANX Area: Raleigh, NC, USA Type: Boeing 787-9 A: #aebb35da97d F: #f5e914a5e0c

Uhhhhh yeah that was reckless/ blatant 🟥

The Other Side of Life Announces Two Louisville Concerts Louisville promoter The Other Side of Life has announced two upcoming performances. On Saturday, August 15, 2026, Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture will perform at B-Side in Louisville, with the live debuts of Zeus, Again and The Gleaming…

Okay FINE I volunteer to replace McConnell

*stares in college professor whose institution just announced a [rude word redacted] "AI" hub that will probably cost more than my entire program*

Happy Laurie Anderson "National Anthem" day! "...it is a big improvement over most national anthems, though, which are in 4/4 time, you know, 'WE'RE NUMBER ONE THIS IS THE BEST PLACE'..." ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cE6...

The ref should simply let them play until Cape Verde wins

I don't know, man, I'm just not sure about this exam's conversion from old Blackboard to the new version, looks a little wonky

“Please refer to the syllabus” = Penalty “We covered this in class” = Yellow Card “Per my last email” = Red Card

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Just learned that, when my husband was a ref, he gave a coach a straight red for saying he needed glasses lol

OKAY that was beautiful

This ref is inexcusable

International grad workers deserve dignity. International grad workers deserve respect. International grad workers *deserve to be paid for their labor.* /fin

This is a solid, clearly-written explanation of what's at stake; good for sharing with friends/ family who may be unaware

Instead of that New York Times article, please have a look at my @mitpress.bsky.social book _Contraception_, which details the benefits of having access to technologies to control one's reproductive capacity and bodily autonomy. #contraception mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

Out today: “There is simply no excuse for workers being exposed to preventable hazards. Whether someone is a direct employee or a contract worker, their life should never be treated as expendable.”