Maybe a graduation speech is not the time to talk about AI. At all. Occasion matters. Keep it about the students.

Can someone tell me? Was Jared Leto canceled for real reasons or silly reasons? I can’t remember and I’m afraid to look it up. But the acoustic version of “the kill” is really scratching an itch I didn’t know I had

This is a university with arguably the best Composition and Rhetoric program in the world too 😭

whoever invented laying in bed knew what they were doing

Joining the chorus to say: If you haven’t read it, don’t cite it. This isn’t complicated. If you put your trust your in co-authors who cite something fake, too bad? You’re not excused and you’re still accountable for what your name is on

Tech bros must have some kind of brain degeneration because they keep saying things "can't be done without AI" when, in fact, it is easily accomplished by just looking it up, learning, or getting the help of another person. Altman said he couldn't imagine raising a child without AI for fuck's sake.

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

Conservatives getting mad that a Black woman is playing a fictional character is not shocking but always makes me pause. Like really this is the hill you want to die on??

Just got a really affirming teaching evaluations. Sometimes Muhlenberg students have a way of putting things that make me feel seen. 😭😭 This semester started with my darling dog dying and I felt like it knocked me off my game, never quite coalescing. Glad students seemed to not notice though

Baratheon Targaryen Stark Tyrell Martell Lannister (Real ones know the Baratheons are the fruity ones)

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I’m just catching up but man, Industry season 4 ate. I love a show that slow burns into its own greatness

Okay, but like, yes. We actually do higher ed really well in the US and I wish more people took pride in it. The National Park system is often called the crown jewel of the US but there’s an argument for it being our system of high ed, especially public unis.

Spending the entire day at the spa 🔥🔥 not leaving the sauna until I pass out

Just recertified my income for student loans. I do not recommend looking at the new estimated payments if you're on an income-driven repayment plan... That spoiled my mood in a second

Okay gang. I need summer reading recommendations! What have you read recently that you liked? (I read whatever tbh. Smut, literary fiction, poetry, gay stuff, thrillers. It’s all good) I *may* do an A Song of Ice and Fire reread

At a faculty social today, a retiring department colleague said "I'm glad we hired you." Accent on the "you." I think this is healing something in me. I was not my department's 1st choice. I know that for a fact. I'm not even sure I was the 2nd choice. This haunted me for years after I started

Rewatching House of the Dragon and season one lowkey stands up to repeat viewings? I like it so much more this time. I don’t foresee saying the same about the atrocious season 2

I’m sure there’s a dignified way to eat a burrito from Moe’s but I haven’t discovered it yet

Clyburn: "I think Justice Roberts is gonna take his place alongside some other justices, like Taney who gave us the Dred Scott decision"

I really enjoy Rooster and am glad it was renewed for a second season, but one thing I want to cry about is how professors just pop into the president’s office to talk. The president (a great John C. McGinley serving silver fox realness) meets people in the sauna even 😂 This just doesn’t happen

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Popeyes gave me 5 chicken tenders instead of the three I ordered 💃🕺

Grades are submitted! Just need to do one final WAC workshop on Tuesday and then I'm on summer break! This summer is--unless something changes ☠️--time to make my tenure file. Fun times. Anyway, this semester blew! Happy to see it in the rearview! I liked my students though 🤷

Apparently Taco Bell’s drive through is run by AI operators now. 🙄 I hate everything

This

Learned this lesson the hard way when I was an undergrad and had to choose between two professors both teaching a Shakespeare class and I decided to go with the handsome man 🙄

What I hate about grading isn’t the labor—I rather like reading students’ final projects. It’s the assigning of final value to a much more meaningful and evolving relationship. 😩 Hampshire College is closing so clearly there isn’t much appetite for it, but I’d love to work at a no-grades school

I’m torn between: 1.) there’s some truth to this BUT 2.) some of the most brilliant people I ever met didn’t go to college AND 3.) dumbing things down is what gets us Trump

Today’s the first time in 3 weeks I was able to make it to the gym. Spring semester always takes a toll on my body 😭

Lea Michele not getting a tony nomination feels like something Ryan Murphy is going to make a terrible tv show about in 10 years. She was, truthfully, very very good in Chess but that show is a mess. I’m more upset that Tempress Chasity Moore didn’t get one for her amazing Grizabella…

Eat the rich, yes, but also couture is 😍😍😍

Every teacher at every level needs to hear "you're not a salesperson and it's not a skill"

post-divorce nicole kidman is my favorite nicole kidman. truly loving the “fuck you” energy here.

For some reason my final exam was scheduled from 7-10 pm. So I bought some candy in case the students want a little sugar boost. Bonus is I get to keep the leftover candy 😌😌 I got 3 bags for my 20-person class

Tipper Gore thought she heard Satan speaking in Judas Priest records and it was an emergency, but the computer that has literally convinced teens to kill themselves and others? Put that in the schools, baby!

You say “socialist orgy” like that’s supposed to turn me off …

folks, what's the best way to make a QR code without signing up for anything? I only need it to last a couple days.

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

I never felt this way but I know many students who do! And yes. Can confirm, it is much much harder to facilitate a good interactive class for 75 minutes than it is to lecture

If you hear someone sobbing, it’s me after saying goodbye to our graduating Writing Center tutors! 26 graduating (out of a total staff of 55). Class or 2026 was the group where I feel like I started to hit my stride as a professor and WC director, so saying goodbye to them is especially hard

I fucking love this Pope

One of my Writing Tutors!

So true… #BookSky

She also went out of her way to make sure the lighting wouldn’t wash Black actors out. Don Cheadle has written and discussed this at some length

Pears are objectively better than apples and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

Who is the first person to say "this parmesan rind would pep this soup right up!" because they deserve a Nobel

Me when a student asked me if I ever heard of Sufjan Stevens because he’s “really good.”