I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

On Friday, Trump signed a proclamation raising fees for H1B visas to $100K. It takes effect tomorrow. H1B workers who are out of the country have been told to return to the US immediately lest they be denied entry. 4Chan & MAGA is trying to block them🧵 magareport.news/p/4chan-trie...

"I'm not telling you to shoot heroin. But if you want to try it, we recommend just snorting it first."

Looks like LinkedIn is updating its policies again. Great time to make sure "Data for Generative AI Improvement" is set to off if you're into that kind of thing.

I was reliably informed by a (white male) colleague that this sort of thing would never happen in California. 🙄

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

They are going after teachers and professors. THEY ARE GOING AFTER TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS. You all see what's happening right?

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

While I'm not a big fan of the patronizing attitude toward librarians here or the idea that disciplinary faculty should get to decide library functions, I am well familiar with the sense of instability created when you find out a colleague is no longer there by a bounced-back email.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

#calstate people will especially be interested in this. Women’s studies and gender studies aren’t just being eliminated from red state institutions.

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

Word.

One of my favorite flower bloom periods

Twice today I’ve heard people discussing the utility of rubber cement.

In that unfortunate interregnum between knitting projects. No wonder I’ve felt of this week.

I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena Update here: gofund.me/506f89f9

I would love if anyone creating surveys about using AI in librarianship would include the option "I have never used it and I will never use it" instead of just assuming it is a thing we should be and are using

Something to read on the reference desk tomorrow.

Resisting the urge to begin the semester by responding to an email with just a middle finger emoji.

That Big Balls is not punched in the face everywhere he goes shows the incredible restraint and lawfulness of DC residents.

Grammarly is now an AI and plagiarism detection company, with Enterprise and Education plans coming. Grammarly is academic surveillance software. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

The web runs on invisible labor. Sarah T. Roberts tells the story of a content moderator who called herself a “sin eater”—absorbing the internet’s sins so we can scroll guilt-free. 🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/9BvgwC0VQdQ #SinEater #BigTech #BehindTheScreen #TheInternetIsCrack #podcast

The Melusine shawl in red. Can’t remember the yarn brand or colorway.

Appalled and so tired

Well, that's not horrific at all. /s

I cannot explain how much this breaks my heart. I likely would not have loved learning without CPB's support of PBS. I probably wouldn't have earned a college degree, let alone a master's, without Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact.

Signal boosting this piece from colleagues in the CSU

Rough day at work, Mr Skepti had a beer waiting, made dinner, and is now firing up an Austrian TV show about a police dog. I think I’ll keep him.

27, and I’ve lived in a couple

"But a system designed to sanitize chatbot conversations does not serve the purpose of academic search. It actively undermines it." More info on this from Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Many ppl outside academia don’t realize the extent to which university leadership has nothing to do w academics/the faculty. For decades now, those in charge of higher ed (boards of regents for public and trustees for private) have viewed the position of U Pres as mainly for fundraising/networking

The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify. The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.

Today Israelis murdered the author of this article, a Palestinian father who tried hard to protect his son from their sadism: www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair...

OpenAI is an archetypal Orwellian agitprop brand, as it signals the opposite of what it actually excels at: EncloseIP

I hope to write about this at more length soon, but here’s a synopsis of my thoughts (from “Against Technofeudal Education” essay).

Oh, you mean eugenics.

Word.

Watching and bear witness

Are any other @calstate.bsky.social schools talking about this possibility before the semester begins? The indiscriminate disappearing of anyone considered by “ICE” as being too brown has me worried for my students and colleagues.

This needs to be a scholarly book in the next few years.

this militarization goes hand in hand with taking power from legislators

San Francisco has spent the last 3 years undoing any evidence-based drug policy in order to appease a very vocal group of uneducated but rich, fascist, right-wing losers (Sacks, Tan, Tandler, Shellenberger, etc). As everyone with understanding of this topic warned, San Franciscans are dying bc of it

The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.

It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

The question roiling the Skepti household tonight: Who did more damage to civilization in the end: Ralph Nader or Kissinger?

Here's the menswear guy's post on being undocumented.