this is one of my favorite essays @texasobserver.org has ever put out

This sounds very official and final, but Bears officials cautioned that the board’s vote does not mean Hammond is a done deal. And they haven't even selected a site yet. It's less official than when they spent $200 million to buy land in Arlington Heights.

This is so awful. The person who was killed biking yesterday in Chicago was bike parking manager Riley O'Neil. If you've ever biked around Chicago you've probably noticed how incredibly well the city handles bike parking. That doesn't happen without dedicated public servants like O'Neil.

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

I knew I liked this guy. Seriously though. He built his career with free and student-license software and talent. I’ve been a fan since the first video and am thrilled he’s had such success. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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To quit writing you actually have to be writing in the first place

Using this as the headline on every piece I file from now on

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.”

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we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Friends, it's Friday. You've made it to the end of the week...you deserve some pretty pictures. So let's do a thread of eels photobombing medieval English artwork! For starters, here's a gorgeous 14th C. image of St. Christopher, trekking along with Jesus & an eel-friend! 1/7 🗃️🧪

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

I don't know what's wrong with my academic colleagues who seem to have had their brains completely switched into the "off" position by AI propaganda, but the results are staggering. I just heard a faculty member sincerely and seriously claim that "in the next month, coding will be obsolete." ...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Something I hope people will consider is that the reason there are so many enraging anti-education pieces coming out right now is that there's a full-court press from PR departments in tech & asset management. Nothing about the last year went according to script for their investments.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

The moments where he says “I” really jump out.

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

So when you get LLM output with links or citations to scholarly work: those citations aren't there because the model consulted them and they actually represent the source of the information. They were included because they look like what should appear near that kind of text.

News: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, and ChatGPT growth has stalled. Based on its current trajectory, OpenAI is on course to lose over $36 billion in 2026. www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-...

"These two books show us not only what a writer’s archive can be but also what this kind of archive demands." Tita Chico on two recent Octavia Butler biographies: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/positive-obsession-h-is-for-horse-octavia-butler/

i’ve only seen one brief clip of Jonathan Haidt’s NYU commencement speech but it’s him saying purple is his favorite color and then immediately mispronouncing “2026”

I never took a marketing class but I feel like rolling out your new technology by saying “ENJOY STARVING, YOU OBSOLETE BITCH” to anyone with a job was likely to cause an unwelcoming response.

As a prof this whole op-ed is, just, really more than I’d post publicly. But this got me: “Because of A.I., most of us now take our tests by writing in blue books, like students a century ago, scribbling out answers by hand under keen observation.” A CENTURY ago! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

If this seems like a daring joke for the 1920s, remember, it's also the basic plot of most Shakespeare comedies.

lotta ppl sayin wild things rn

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Among the many reasons I'm proud to be in the union is they tend to have good graphics. Today, on the newspaper's Slack channel, we're replacing our photos with this way-cool logo to remind our masters that people make the Sun-Times, not AI slop.

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

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.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

These photos of Chicago school kids from the 1970s are incredible! blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/28/p...