Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.

So many applicants now use LLMs like ChatGPT to write cover letters, they no longer communicate much or anything about the qualities of the applicant. www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

The second best time for Fetterman to drop out…

I must be doing something right because my feed is all a)

his chief of staff and directors: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Is it a good sign for the industry that employees have to be threatened to use gAI?

I gave up a small way through because it takes too long to scroll through Musk’s wealth.

"it’s wise to decline speaking to the Times on principle"

He beat the wrap.

Looking forward to this book!

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Some people may perceive one category up from another one as only a "little" bit stronger. Like earthquake scales, the hurricane intensity scale increases logarithmically. That means a doubling of wind is not a doubling of damage. It actually results in a 256-fold increase in possible damage."

I’m sorry but A House of Dynamite is a disappointment.

absolutely blown away by this introduction – immediately requested my library acquire a copy!

A moment of joy for the day…

This man’s account of getting a body scrub at a Korean spa is a good reprieve from the doom and gloom. www.instagram.com/reel/DP7ewHj...

The Platner stuff sucks, but that's why you go through this process.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Me: There are no characters in Parable of the Sower who give up. They’re all trying to figure out how to make a life for themselves despite how bad things get. Student: There’s a character who gives up and gets killed. Me: Let me amend what I just said…

Canvas is down at my school. Oh darn…

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Taking a brief respite from grading to contemplate the abyss, which is our present. Well, that’s awful. Time to get back to grading.

After a talk I was accused of encouraging individual action against systemic change, and it was so frustrating to respond to. This thread does a good job offering a response to this kind of thinking.

🔥🔥🔥

Listened to the first two episodes (only ones available so far) and they were excellent! I’m a big fan now and am looking forward to the last two episodes.

I could only read a few posts before I had to stop.

It finally happened: a student asked me, what’s a CD?

MIT says "NOPE, we stand for peer review, merit, and academic freedom" in reply to the Trump Regime's proposed "compact" with Higher Ed. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

OpenAI has made a $1 trillion worth of deals this year, and I can’t stop wondering if there might be more socially beneficial uses of this money.

But students can cosplaying writing papers.

“Over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings” is such a banger.

Like most everyone, at the height of the pandemic I only wanted to wear comfy clothes, but now I find myself craving more structure—sports coats, button down shirts, dress shoes. I may be mere weeks away from wearing a tie to work.

I apparently don’t know what a flapjack is.

Cuomo could never.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I read the study this article is reporting on, and turns out the authors are very pro-AI. What they are trying to figure out is why AI isn't producing the efficiency they expect. They seem to conclude it's the workers' fault (surprise).

“Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, and 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent.” Dang.

What if, despite my best efforts, I somehow lived a virtuous life and end up getting raptured, even though I don’t want it? Can I ask to be returned?

This is so sad.

Wes Anderson has nothing on these guys.

I don't know if anyone will care about this given everything, but my colleague wrote the minutes for our department meeting all in blank verse.

You can find a collection of these permits here… each one has crease marks from where they were folded to be carried. Eerie detail. www.thegearyactproject.com/thecollection

“Many secure people — tenured professors, university administrators, lawmakers — have contributed to making academe a pressure cooker, incentivizing cheating.”

Oh New Hampshire.