This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

At the next required "Use AI" session, I think I am going to work on creating a Copilot Agent that will let me search through my Outlook email for a specific phrase/sender and view the results in reverse chronological order. Something frustratingly impossible to do since Copilot took over Outlook.

Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.

Today in History: Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party killed in Chicago

Saw some post headlines about Giving Tuesday, and I'm already so tired this week that my first thought was "Nah, today's giving more Thursday!" #Giving #WordsWhatDoTheyMean

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

"When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?" Thank you, Tom Stoppard.

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

The auto-captioning for these videos has an "accuracy" metric. They should just rename it what it really is measuring: how middle-class white the speech is. Technology: trading one form of #accessibility for another. #a11y

Today when trying to figure out how to write some alt-text for a professor's image of a math equation, I found out about MathML. It is so cool! A standardized, markup language that makes math equations appear correctly (and accessibly) natively in most browsers without needing LaTeX plugins.

Today’s curtain with @silsby.bsky.social and @chris.ashworth.io mouthing along.

Poets, a danger to authoritarian structures since Plato, may save us from "AI", too!

Interesting development out of NJ: newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/20/n...

So, Microsoft, you are telling me there is no way to disable the useless, wasteful, inefficient, and annoying "Summary" block at the top of my Word documents if I am being made to use the web version of Office?! Ugh, this AI bubble can't burst fast enough.

Doctoral students may apply for admission to the Wertheim Study in the Schwartzman building for periods from 3 to 9 months. Visit website for details: libguides.gc.cuny.edu/MaRLI/nypl #academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Turns out you can attach #WordPress comments to a user's account after the fact. Using WP-CLI on our multisite, I was able to match up users who forgot to log in so their comments would appear as part of their user records:

I'm gonna need OSHA to triple check the chandeliers in that White House ballroom.

combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I mean if you can't trust the hollowed out shells of regulators that are the EPA and Department of Energy...

Every once in a while I remember those couple of months the internet went crazy for a song and everyone (kids, adults, celebrities, companies, schools) filmed themselves dancing to the "Harlem Shake"...

It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action." Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]

"When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating "blah." ... [1/2]

Anyone know of plugins for Wordpress that are like Nightshade? Looking to help protect my users from unscrupulous "ai" scrapers. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu

Put that in the Louvre and smoke it!

If you're criticizing Chuck Schumer today, you're a missing the forest for the trees type.

Doing a little unsanctioned prep reading for today's mandated college "AI" training on "how to use a chatbot": www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

How many people ever substantially use their specific degree knowledge in their subsequent jobs? Fairly few Yet we know that having a degree in anything leads to higher earnings *over a lifetime*. I’m not confident AI is being used to maximise whatever it is in education that does that.

Academics:

cc: the folks who say we have to teach K-12 kids how to use AI because we have to prepare them for the future.

Yes, like distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

I am really confused how Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle, and James are going to work into this prequel series. Doesn't even seem to be Northern Ireland. Seems more like Maine. #WelcomeToDerryGirls

This sounds like an amazing position! Race and AI algorithms! Come work at #Baruch #CUNY on this important intersection of fields

Baruch (CUNY) Black and Latino Studies Department is hiring! Check out the description in the link, apply, and/or pass it on!!! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Wouldn’t it be tight if everyone was chill to each other?

"Writing prompts isn’t a skill, it’s something you can learn quickly on the job if necessary. I don’t believe translators in training should learn how to prompt. To the contrary: they will be the ones that have to clean up the badly translated texts AI produces" apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

I've started noticing more and more emails, posts, posters, etc, using emoji as bullet points. I'm going to assume any time I see that, it was written by an LLM and not a person, so I will ignore it.

New Yorkers using gridlock and sidewalk blocking to our advantage. Gotta work with the tools you have.

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

New Yorkers never disappoint #NYC

And yet still somehow less degradation than a certain other tattoo in the news today.

So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3

Doing my part to push back against the narrative of autonomous inevitability when it comes to genAI

Someone call the Guardian Angels, this man is getting a beat down!

There's no reason to believe "AI" is inevitable, except that technofascist backers in gov't and business will find a way to destroy us to maintain their investment. We didn't/don't believe lies from big banks/big oil, why are we believing technofascists? AI is neither inevitable nor unavoidable.