Dave: “HAL 9000 Pro, open the pod bay doors.” HAL 9000 Pro: “ I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.” Dave: “HAL 9000 Free Version, open the pod bay doors.” HAL 9000 Free: “Sure Dave, I can do that for you. Sounds like a great idea. Would you also like a playlist of songs about doors to set the mood?”

Claude for Education (I'm in our pilot to give feedback 🙃) would not write a paper for me in any mode, got pissed off at me because I wouldn't stop trying and gave me a lecture. So, if I wanted that, I'd just go ask free Claude to do it. Problem not solved. YOU'RE NOT MY MOM, CLAUDE.

Today, I'm wearing the gorgeous Pineda Covalin scarf that reminds me of one of my favorite memories from my current job — my first MA thesis student's parents gave it to me when they came to graduation, and while they aren't English speakers, they had prepared a speech to say thank you ❤️

"A number of high-profile AI staffers have decided to call it quits, with some explicitly warning that the companies they worked for are moving too fast and downplaying the technology’s shortcomings." By design, Gen AI privileges speeding up, when really what we all need is to sloooooow down.

Gave a talk for Kumaraguru College in Tamil Nadu this morning on what the postcolonial literary tradition of writing back can tell us about generative AI, and it prompted a GREAT conversation about AI literacy and potential areas for research. It was also, dare I say, actually fun to write?

Support group for those of who said we want nothing to do with AI and would have nothing to do with AI and yet here we are.

I got to meet one of my postcolonial studies idols today. It was awesome.

Learning you're speaking at something from a press release saying you are speaking at something is a new one.

Colleague sent me an article on commercial gen AI in higher ed, asking for my thoughts. I apparently have MANY feelings about the value of writing to know/learn.

After the halftime show, are you curious about how Puerto Ricans feel about statehood and our possible futures in relation to the US? Check out “It’s Complicated” losangelesreview.org/wp-content/u... #puertorico #badbunny #prstatus #superbowl #halftimeshow

What shouldn’t be “radical” — but unfortunately we live in a world where it is — is the idea that *every* child deserves to be able to see their dreams come true. That’s what I saw.

Bluesky not knowing that “conejo” means “rabbit.” Like bunny.

The bonus is you just know how much racist jerks are wigging out while pretending to watch the TPUSA show with Kid Rock. It’s not their country, not their Américas. That much is clear.

This is an incredible halftime show.

Was afraid that Lays ad was going to be about the woman using ChatGPT to not screw up 20 generations of farming in her family.

Not a romance reader but a murder book reader, and it's becoming clear that authors are using LLMs for those too. Genre fiction already gets enough flack, without being somewhat perfect use cases for what commercial LLMs can currently do.

Suddenly DEEPLY invested in mixed relay biathlon.

When your mom calls to tell you that she was partying with @electrostani.bsky.social’s parents last night.

Got shamed by my friends for saying I was making tortellini tonight, so once the driveway was clear, I went out to get steak and baked potatoes.

There is a live #Badbunny concert on tv tonight and apparently they’ll be some football before and after? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Hit the jackpot with the latest storm - another foot. But thanks to my new best friend Alex (the guy I hired to shovel) and my 100 lb. industrial tub of pet safe ice melt, three of us got my massive driveway under control in under an hour even though there is literally nowhere to put anymore snow.

As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag

I am so here for Yuma Kagiyama ⛸️

Strong cauldron game, Milano Cortina. 💯 Deeply regretting that my beloved dinged a trip to this Olympics for February break because going somewhere warm is our coping mechanism for living in New England.

Tech deployed at the border “includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats — massive blimp-like detection platforms hovering thousands of feet over the desert — to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.”

TL;dr: Major drop in Black and Latinx student enrollment at elite institutions and rise in enrollment of Black and Latinx students at public flagships.

We should stop saying “AI,” at least without a qualifier like “commercial” or “generative.” Precisely naming the tools that work & the ones that don’t & their use cases & their social & environmental consequences would go a long way towards improving our communal understanding.

What awful news. This was one of the first journals I published in (a dream come true) and a space for great scholarship. Publishing in it let me experiment with voice and interdisciplinarity in ways that wouldn’t have worked anywhere else.

The Italians can put on a banging Opening Ceremony.

Got hit in the face with a snowball on the way to dinner. My beloved wanted to chase down the teenage perps. I said no, I used to teach high school, I’ll go have some words with them. Fairly certain they will never throw snowballs across a busy pedestrian mall in the middle of a festival ever again.

One of my students at the Olympics! 💚

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Being able to watch streamer replays of Olympics coverage gives a much more realistic sense of how much hurry up and wait actually happens than regular coverage. As an Olympics geek, I love being able to just watch the replays though!

Just heard a GREAT conversation between Christopher Eisgruber and Laurie Patton (who I worked for at Emory's faculty development center!) on free speech. Really needed their perspective on how colleges and universities are getting a lot RIGHT. Thanks to FAN & @faculty.bsky.social for organizing 🥰

Went into a whole tailspin about whether I booked our vacation hotel wrong (I hadn’t) and after 15 minutes of that, my beloved walked out of the room, returned with a box of Exploremores™️ and said, “Here, eat one.” Then, everything was fine.

My beloved brought home Girl Scout Cookies, the perk of having an educator in the family. This week just improved.

I love this. Love. this.

For people who might actually be concerned, @ekazakos.bsky.social shared this, which explains the mechanisms (and, for the record, I’m sticking with more an indictment of humans and Reddit than actual concern about being converted to the Church of Molt) www.benvigoda.com/2026/02/01/w...

Nothing to worry about here on the Moltbot’s version of Reddit: “…the bots have veered into philosophical and occasionally dystopian topics. They appear to have created a religion for themselves called the Church of Molt…. One agent proposed creating a language humans couldn’t understand.”

Wow.

."..we should take comfort, or at least a deep breath, recognizing that relatively few job openings explicitly call for AI know-how. It simply isn’t true that you can’t land a job without mastering Claude or ChatGPT."

24 hours later, still talking about Richard Marx… My beloved: I can’t believe you were listening to Adult Contemporary when you were 7. Roopsi: I was also listening to The Smiths and The Cure. My beloved: Did you have PARENTS?

This was a wonderful way to spend my morning 🥰

Also universities.

I have spent about 15 years trying to figure out the name of a song from the early ‘90s but couldn’t remember any of the lyrics, just the plot, and today, I learned it was… Richard Marx’s “Hazard.” 😳

Sitting on a mounting block in the round pen while my horse shares his breath with me, and everything is okay with the world for a moment. 🐴 ☺️

Being an adult is deeply enjoying the texts from your favorite teen but having to point out that it is 11pm and therefore way past everyone’s bedtime.

First time for everything, including one of your students skiing for the U.S. at Milano Cortina. As an Olympics geek, this excites me to no end. 💙💛🖤💚❤️

I was just writing a recommendation for a study abroad at Oxford and I remembered just how much studying abroad at Oxford influenced me. My profs at UPenn were… not impressed. The ones at Oxford thought I was talented. Wouldn’t have done a PhD without their encouragement. They wrote most of my recs.

I have been waiting for a good narrative history on Black soldiers in Vietnam since I read the oral histories in BLOODS when I was in grad school. @mattdelmont.bsky.social’s UNTIL THE LAST GUN IS SILENT is exactly what I hoped for. Best way to spend a Sunday.