Every time I hear the bullshit about "AI agents" I think of this AT&T ad. We could have had the dog. youtu.be/T3N_uK46bXg?...

One issue we have at Georgetown is that —using this analogy— the cigarette companies’ proxies are at every level of the administration & also in the business school & apparently also the applied STEM disciplines, which is why AI grading has just been approved by our main campus executive faculty

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Evergreen...

"Jamie Hayes, who inherited a Ford dealership from his father"... told me everything I needed to know, right there.

important to balance equities when your baseball buddies might have to spend a few more hours in the office, not so important when a generation of federal employees might lose their livelihoods

These same boards are the same ones pushing “AI literacy” into every corner of our institutions, so the convergence-effect Ted describes in this thread—increasingly powerful boards filled w/ rich ppl whose anti-intellectual, airport-book obsessions drive research & teaching—is also the story of “AI”

Phew! Don't want people knowing I've had Super Mario 3 out for 36 years.

has someone bought isthestraightopen.com yet? Oh! Apparently someone sniped Andrew to get it. Well done?

I like how the commenter couldn't bring themselves to say "made". Again, ideas (sorry "visions") are easy. "What if they don’t care about being considered an artist, and simply want to cause their vision of a game to exist, with the least amount of cost and work?" www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/a...

Do teachers whoe bring their students outside for class think past "oh it's a nice day" to "maybe we should find a place that has some shade, too"? Skin cancer risk starts young, my friends.

Toyed with the idea of going back to Notion for a bit, but you can no longer opt out of the AI. Nope.

i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own

Is there a BlueSky filter that will automatically blur out all images of Epstein, Trump, and RFK Jr.? NSFW that garbage, can we?

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

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I got an email from a popular tax filing service...

People that have been here a minute and think they invented the machine - lurk more. Alt-Text has been around forever and if the ghouls are harvesting it for evil, get rid of the ghouls. More accessibility is the future we want!

This should be illegal

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

Being an assoc prof is hard because you finally have a killer research agenda and service obligations won't let you work on it. Also, higher ed is collapsing wholesale, stripped from within and without by greedy ideologues who see everything as a business deal and the humanities as worthless.

“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone” Just keep repeating this quote from David Futrelle. Forever and ever and ever and ever. (Thanks @kottke.org) kottke.org/26/04/andree...

As one white woman speaking to all the white women willing to police the agenda of white supremacy - this will not protect you. They will dispose of you the moment they are bored with you.

@crunchyroll.com let users filter the release calendar by language

I would like to filter my Instagram feed (oh, boy I hate that word) into video and non-video. This will never happen (just like the return to chronological) but a girl can dream. Only dream. Dream girl, dream. You get nothing. So dare to dream. Sleep and DREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAm

same

“Oshi No Ko” doesn’t look like the kind of anime that will traumatize you. But.

It’s all a massive, astoindingly large ponzi scheme to just fleece trillions from people. It’s fucking mind blowing on so many levels

A friend of mine is in this anthology - so you should go support it before time ticks away!!! Check out Clocks: a speculative and dark fiction anthology by Elizabeth Mitchell on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jus...

Can't find a Betterman?

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Sitting here as a Black person, thinking about how I am not allowed to say “I told you so” in a few years when the guy with the SS tattoo turns out not to be a key ally for multiracial democracy

This is the grift of the tech-oligarchy. Make education transactional; minimize the perceived usefulness of higher education; convince students that "quick answers = learning" and then paywall the entire human intellectual archive. Buy physical books, friends. "Book of Eli" that shit.

I've been using Pages instead of Word for about a minute and I feel calmer already. Is there sadness in my future or is this the "way"?

These are not dogs.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. He. Is. So. God. Damn. Good. At. This.

tl;dr bf;dr (bad formatting; didn't read) ai;dr fu;dr

Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. These people think their writing style is so badass and emphatic, when even their cadence is a cliche. I'm so sick and tired of this tired format.

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

Do you want an entire generation of children going no contact with their parents when they grow up? Because this is how you get an entire generation of children going no contact with their parents when they grow up.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

Every time I get a book from my university library and it's been underlined or annotated, I always assume it was faculty.

I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society

Can confirm, I’m not a nazi. There’s candidates that have a lot of money, and there’s me—the better candidate. Just a reminder that Sara Gideon outraised Collins by $5mil and lost. It’s not all about the money. Happy to have you support 💜

what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med...

I think I broke my Facebook - or all of Facebook.

There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.