So is Harvard going to launch an investigation into Larry Summers, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and the use of university resources to support him?

I'm fascinated by how so many superstar academics + higher ed admins have a vacant moral core. The # of profs (especially at Harvard) comfortable cozying up to Epstein for $ or connections is really revealing.

Womp womp... Designed a course to feature a physical course reader (which most students loved!). Final assignment: in-class essay where students could consult the reader and hand-written notes. Outcome: Still having to fail one student because they mixed LLM-generated notes with their materials.

Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator

Pretty obvious that given how there's no real avenue for profits, LLM enshittification is going to proceed at a breakneck speed. www.afr.com/technology/m...

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲, ‘𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬?’ 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐁𝐒 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝. This quote issued by Bari Weiss as she destroys what is left of CBS News neatly captures the zeitgeist of the Age of Trump (and of LLMs). www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Two years ago I attended a panel about AI at a national conference of college trustees. Their conversation revolved around what do we have to say to get our faculty in line with this, and can we fire them if they don't.

I had a student from Saudi Arabia who said that Neom was basically a project to quickly fill the pockets of some construction firm execs, but that MBS's fever dream would never really materialize. My response? Yeah, that's been pretty obvious ever since it was announced. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Long live sandwich guy! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Amazing how universities, many of which embraced the absurd practice of "trigger warnings" for works by Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and Chinua Achebe, have had no hesitancy in pushing students to become heavily dependent on a tool that causes and worsens mental distress. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Yep. Our university has invited a “Silicon Valley futurist” to give an address lavishly sponsored by the president’s office to “teach us tips for how to integrate AI in our work, school, and home.” Meanwhile I had to compete for $ to bring an award-winning scholar in my field to campus.

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously. It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

*Shocking* that health-tech companies would immediately turn to eugenics.

I am so sick and tired of repetitive workshops on how to integrate LLMs into your teaching. All I want is a single workshop on developing LLM-resilient assignments. And smaller class sizes. That's it. That's pretty much the solution to 60% of the problems.

Oh wow a new browser how exciting

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Desperate for any viable monetization path, it seems that Smarmy Sam and OpenAI will open the doors for pornographic content. How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

Pretty obvious that the toddler-in-chief is now fully aware of his powers of market manipulation to facilitate the enrichment of his family and fellow cronies. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/s...

Is there a greater ghoul-producing factory than Wharton? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Yesterday I saw someone proudly state that they used ChatGPT to write a preface for a friend’s book, since they were pressed on time. I then asked if they had told their friend that. The answer was a sheepish no, since apparently "some think it’s not real work." Shame them with basic questions.

Those of you teaching history of ideas/intellectual history courses that are framed through primary texts: what kind of assignments have you designed to deal with LLMs? If in-class writing, how have you structured it so that students have resources to write while engaging with the texts?

Those of you teaching history of ideas/intellectual history courses that are framed through primary texts: what kind of assignments have you designed to deal with LLMs? If in-class writing, how have you structured it so that students have resources to write while engaging with the texts?

Nearly 1,400 words and Christopher Caldwell can't manage to provide a single tangible example of how "DEI" has actually hurt the military. But what to expect from someone who apparently thinks school segregation was better than the alternative, eh? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Indeed.

On business faculty and the Malcolm Gladwellization of everything. time.com/7320539/phil...

I feel like universities should start mandating some kind of sequence for undergrads on 'how to use the library' and 'the pitfalls of digital archiving.' Search tools are being ruined by LLM integration, and even pre-LLMs, digitization of pre-Internet era works was very spotty.

Question for the likes of @tgpeterson.bsky.social. Wikipedia says that original version of The Battle of Algiers is 136 min long but I can only find 120 min versions to stream. Is there some platform (or sketchy website) I'm not looking at? And are there physical media versions that are full length?

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Turns out he was also right about violet powder. (Entry is from The Lancet, 25 May 1878—several years after Marx's comment).

This entry in Karl Marx's confession book just goes to show how the man was an absolute unit. (Other passage is from Wikipedia).

Oh.

Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon. Back when some semblance of free speech still existed in the U.S.A.

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The FT has, among the media, the best incentives to be sensitive to reality.

"I wish we could blame this on muslims or migrants, but turns out it was one of us." what a wild thing to say

Amazing how none of these Charlie Kirk obits care to observe that few people contributed more to the intense polarization and explosion of "cancel culture" we've seen in the past decade. The dude essentially made his name by creating a professor target list and goading his minions to go after them.

Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court. Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

Bolsonaro trial being broadcast live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=felf...

Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.

These people are such losers. Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.

Something to consider is that one reason "Science" (sic) has lost authority and is under attack is because of a certain kind of hubris and distancing from other fields of human knowledge (as exemplified by the very article in question).

People have, and I can emphasize this enough, fully lost the plot.

i work for microsoft and can say that 1) they are pushing copilot for sure and 2) it is utterly fucking useless. i'm not a coder though

Lol. You know Microsoft is worried it invested a ton of money in the Titanic when its CEO starts desperately content farming to drive hype toward its shit product.

Amazing what ChatGPT 5 can do.