Wait... Is Duolingo getting.... better?

The year is 2026, and I need to locate the exact email in my Outlook inbox that contains the attachment I require. Gmail solved this problem in 2004.

“But despite OpenAI’s talk of supporting health goals, the company’s terms of service directly state that ChatGPT and other OpenAI services ‘are not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition.’”

I know this is yesterday’s news and feels relatively unimportant now but just want to note that this is ongoing and X and xAI continue to do absolutely nothing about it despite being able to end it by pressing a single button.

Professor Darren Michael will return to his position as a tenured professor at Austin Peay State University.

I dreamed that I was building model rockets with Mark Rober last night. Super chill. Super nice.

I am horrified by this. This year I learned that I can be fired for sharing a news article on my private social media or for giving a student a low grade.

NEW: Hours before it was set to air an episode about migrants shipped to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, “60 Minutes” pulled the episode, preemptively caving to Trump. Just like that, the beloved show we have known is dead, Marc Elias writes.

Do not obey in advance.

It is the biggest ego boost to read glowing student evaluations at the end of each semester, even when I believe every semester feels like a train wreck.

Here's my Atari 2600 collection. What should I add?

Me: Opens up new journal article about how AI extracts racial data from digital pathology slides and then is biased and racist Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"

Michele Reiner snapped this photograph. She was murdered last night. The subject of this photo had this to say about the death of her and her husband.

Today is the last day of the semester. I think I'm going to play Banished all night long. I want a game where I can peacefully escape everything.

Second full calendar year of Duolingo

750 days on Duolingo.

I asked Google Gemini to generate a photo-realistic image of a baseball game. Perfect. No notes.

I want to see sports teams return to making team photos in this style.

I am today years old when I learned that Doom 64 is a completely different Doom from Doom I and II. I always thought Doom 64 was just a port of earlier Doom games.

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

I finished my seventh as Program Chair of the ACM Mid-Southeast in Gatlinburg, TN.

One of my favorite use cases of AI is simply providing a wealth of information about a student and then saying, "Write me a letter of recommendation."

Twice this week, I've told a friend that they've shared some AI slop. In both instances, the content appeared to be a news article with an AI-generated image. These friends are intelligent, and they honestly believed they were sharing valuable news content.

Dr. Rebecca Darrough (Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at APSU) died over the weekend from an illness. She was a dedicated colleague.

The official Stranger Things social media profile picture is Oscar from Sesame Street dressed as a demogorgon.

We had a pretty good snow in Clarksville this morning.

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

I use this teleprompter software, not for reading scripts for recorded video lectures, but for just reading in general.

5 days away from my two year streak.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

John Dickerson can leave CBS News with his head held high. I hope he gets picked up by an organization deserving of his reputation.

Trump has been bragging about getting a perfect score on a cognitive test again. One of the questions is "Draw CLOCK (Ten past eleven)." I asked ChatGPT to draw a clock that showed ten past eleven. The result was 1:51.

I'm still going strong in relearning French. I hope to be fluent in about three years.

Roll two fair six-sided dice, but don't look at the result. I look at the results and tell you that one of the two die landed on a six. The probability that the other die also landed on six is 1/11. Statistics is weird.

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

The board game Go is better than Chess. Why? #NoKings

Realized my membership with @ffrf.org lapsed. Got it back going again.

I taught a class that I thought the students really enjoyed, but man, I think I could have done that class better. Still, it was an effective class.

This story played on WPLN this morning about people turning to AI for therapy. A therapist should guide you through your problems in manner that is healthy for you and your loved ones. An AI has no legal or ethical obligation to do anything. That seems inherently risky. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

If you ask me to do something while I am trying to complete another task, I will cry on the spot.

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

I miss REAL journalists

You heard it straight from Kennedy himself: Gold Standard Science is actually just data fabrication.

And they say nothing is made in America anymore!

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless.

BNA is delayed because of Trump.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.