Unacceptable. A road — possibly associated with Tren de Aragua — left unpaved by Minnesota radicals weaponized itself against two of our courageous officers, causing one to discharge his firearm in self-defense. We stand by our brave boys.

Slightly diminish a band. My Chemical First Date

Slightly diminish a band. Stumble Out Boy

Khloe Ison is the future of Baltimore basketball baltimorebeat.com/khloe-ison-i...

not beating the allegations that antivax beliefs are downstream of being afwaid of needles

She thinks she’s getting Ben and Jerry’s.

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

Off on a roade trippe wyth Dante. See you yn a fewe dayes, everyebodye! It ys manye miles and dimensiouns to Los Angeles, we have a fullye charged Hyundai Ioniq, halfe a page of plannes for frame tale narratyves, we are lost yn a darke woode, and we are wearinge sunglasses. Hit it.

Make a Bond Movie Casual: No Reason to Die

I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching." And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

It’s the cupholders. And power outlets. And individual seats with a little aisle. And yet more cupholders

not especially "crazy", but screwing around with microfilm was much more fun than proquest or w/e because you got all of the context of what was happening at the same time as whatever you were looking up

and yes, no contest, Emily Wilson's translation is the best I've ever read; the Odyssey is always beautiful but under her hands it felt like the Sistine Chapel except that you'd always seen it under centuries of dust and then, suddenly, it was just there - revealed -

not as it "is" but as it could be; Wilson doesn't pretend that her work is a simple unveiling; even with the Sistine Chapel you make decisions as you uncover

If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest. >>

But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that. >>

Uninstalling.

Colonialism and capitalism are snakes eating their own tails

Wowwwwww

My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated. The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.

A little bit of looking and you can buy a “dumb” flatscreen tv that still works with your fire stick or whatever. Helped my mom with one when a smart tv had too much shit on it

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I’m 100% D is foer

I’m pretty sure I could run through the 5? 6? Curriculum/textbooks our school has had over my career, and find that the supports and lessons are almost identical from book to to book

I had an assistant principal who tried to ask interview questions of prospective hires to get at this. “Talk about your favorite book.” “What got you into teaching English?”

BRING BACK MICROFICHE.

Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically

THE BETTOR ANGELS OF OUR NATURE……

Thoughts about a gambling ad featuring Lebron and Kevin Hart, in which Hart mocks James’ beard: “what’s next, a stovepipe hat? What’s the spread? Four scores?” There’s a lot going on to talk about but I wonder how much the audience gets, and is enriched by, knowing the Gettysburg address …

“The time has come to decenter the pinnacles of the literary arts and instead replace them with exploitable labor skills”

while grading I found myself about to say a few times, “this prose feels empty in an AI sort of way,” in cases where I had no idea if the student used AI, but the empty prose simply “felt” sorta fake & I think it’s fascinating how AI has so quickly become a synonym for meaningless, empty, useless

Translation: you pay Disney so you can watch “user generated” content for which disney has not paid the creator. Disney also profits from ads. Labor does not get paid.

Can’t wait for the pornographic disney princesses.

Don’t get me started on NCTE’s pitch to teach responsible AI use. Politely, that shit can fuck off into the sun

Wrangling the physical technology pf the classroom is the least productive part of the day, and it has gotten WORSE over the span of my career

Fellas, is it gay to use a sans serif font

Me too, Murderbot, me too.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence

Tag yourself, I’m “wide 2-car garage”

i miss believing, as i did as a grad student and for a few years following, that whitman was over-assigned, over-studied

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to Dire Straits Social Distortion Cowboy Junkies Sleater-Kinney The Lemonheads

Thought it was NYTimes Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.

BRB, building an AP English Lang curriculum outta this