Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I am like if ‘jump to recipe’ was a person

biker mice from mars reboot when

what’s a ghost’s favorite dinner? spooketti and meatboos

gig in a small venue

And that stories for children are art, drawing on a tradition of art. I think it’s not uncommon for those traditions to have complex relationships with how we understand ourselves as psychological beings.

Yes, I think what I’m getting at is that children’s literature exists as a genre in dialogue with its own canon more than it is a program to support social and emotional health. And to your point, that probably has consequences. I think this is another place where it overlaps with romance a lot

chords aren’t real

I took tons of Tylenol growing up, that’s why I’m this way

I have a children’s literature and #psychology question. In a preponderance of children’s stories adults are incomprehensible, distant, or nonexistent. Children exist in their own self-directed imaginary worlds where there is no scarcity and danger is contained and fleeting: not real world

I was tempted to ask ChatGPT to talk about effects of LLM use on cognition and learning because then maybe people would listen, but they don’t care even when OpenAI says hallucinations are baked in

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

David Foster Wallace would have absolutely blown a gasket, RIP

This series has been a recent favorite www.newyorker.com/a-childrens-...

James Merrill

GREAT thread on Aretha Franklin’s vocal style

I'm sorry to break this to you Zoomers but based on my interactions with you, you're just Long Millenials

my most toxic trait is that i don’t scroll through the replies to carefully check if someone already made the joke i was going to make. i’m a reply guy

pertussis update is “no I don’t have it”. Did a full RVP and it was no on everything so I’m just vibing and coughing hard

*stares exhaustedly in music theory*

“what is it you do here? why can’t AI do that?” well, AI has never done it before, and the job function is critical, so maybe the burden is on you to demonstrate that AI can do it in a reliable, efficient way before deciding to change anything

new pynchon dropped, who’s reading

GET IN THE CAR! WE NEED BROCCOLI NOW!! FLORET!!!

bonejour is french for halloween

no don’t take the fever reducing drug during pregnancy, it can cause things that are known to be connected to experiencing intense periods of prolonged fever during pregnancy

french skeleton says bonejour

Can I have pertussis? Last tdap in 2018. Can’t stop coughing for days, mostly unproductive even with expectorant; lots of sinus drainage, going to get a test tomorrow this sucks

extra vulgar olive oil

Short answer, no. This was a really good episode and clarified for me that I should not be worried about Tylenol at all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

pebble jam

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...

You know what “plausible but false” means? If you are not a subject matter expert, do not use this tool because you will be hosed and not know it

lol, lmao even

JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...

Spiro Agnew rolling around in his grave

When pundits are mad and write a Bluesky sucks article it’s bc they can’t game the algorithm here lol like they’re so mad they just get blocked into oblivion

Still a bunch of bangers in this thread if you are looking for amazing music to listen to!

For no reason, if you want people to sign a petition letter using a Google Form and have their signatures published to a Google Doc (rather than letting people directly edit a Google Doc, messy) this method worked really well for me scatter.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/a...

Saw the thinnest waning crescent moon and an extremely bright star, probably Venus, just nearby this morning, and totally get why this is on so many flags

To my friends who think the left highway lane is preferentially reserved for people going 25 miles/hour over the speed limit: no it isn’t, please stop tailgating me while I am passing other cars

Couple weeks ago, someone asked me if I could do a thread on “the pros and cons of painting brick”, so here is that thread! tl;dr: no, don’t do that

Wh-wh-what about Bluesky

I just find it interesting that the nexus of the triangles is proximal to Samos, home of Pythagoras, inventor of the triangle and mystical numerologist

“If you’re a ‘yes and’ machine and a user is feeding you kind of irrational thoughts, you’re going to spit those irrational thoughts back” …. “Folie a deux” This message about LLM chatbots needs to be more widely promoted; it is hurting people podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

“floridly insane”