AI psychosis? Try having delusions like a real man, such as when I convinced myself through the power of OCD that I caused the 2008 cyclone in Myanmar

“Dix said Alberta was being "rewarded" for brewing separatist sentiment by the federal government”. Dix is spot on, and it’s outrageous. #cdnpoli

this is what happens when we stop teaching the classics (RoboCop) in school

Instead of "Strong and Free" they will now read "Petulant and Whiny"

You love to see it.

Around 15 minutes ago, in Chinese astronomy, the Sun entered the mansion Hairy Head 昴 mǎo (Pleiades). The character 昴 has no other attested meaning in Chinese. But in Japanese, it's how the name of Subaru, the car brand, is written in Chinese characters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_H...

Rolling up that hill.

Definitely: you have shared their unpublished, and thus still-working-copy, materials with a plagiarism machine

AI IS NOT A SKILL AI IS NOT A SKILL AI IS NOT A SKILL AI IS NOT A SKILL AI IS NOT A SKILL AI IS NOT A SKILL

Whole three-post thread (but especially 2/3)

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

The oil & gas sector in Canada's numbers are similar (see, for instance, ratio of O&G to HE)

Just gonna go ahead and post this again, 'cause it's still fuckin' relevant.

It’s like LLM boosters think researchers do a bunch of shoddy work when drafting and then go back and fact check everything later. But that’s not how it works - you’re constantly checking and double-checking throughout the process. I don’t want factual errors in any draft!

pathetic!

RIP Mark Furhman, the last cop in American history to get in trouble for being racist

One of the two public universities in Oregon currently undergoing retrenchment published a report on which programs make the most $ for the university (which shouldn't be the primary factor in keeping or cutting them), and the answer by a LONG SHOT was History/Poli Sci

But I am happy to stipulate many Canadians are indeed idiots. One only need to look at who they allow to run the provinces.

A very chance find while tidying my campus office just now!

Have we considered a slight renaming: Margaret Beaufort the Great?

Burns & Grogu

This is an excellent summary of what we do: footnotes show our working. In our case, that is mostly by use of primary sources - we marshal those so that others can find them, check our accuracy and, more importantly, look through those same sources for other material. #Skystorians

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

This brief article about the quiet grief of adult friendship is so moving and lovely and worth 5 minutes of your time. This excerpt below really hit. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

I still remember the incredible primary source quote I had to leave out of my dissertation because I lost the citation to it. But to lose a citation, you had to have had it in the first place, because you read things. If reading the sources in your field is too much, I don't know why you're in it.

University President: Good afternoon Class of 2026! Please put your hands together for this year’s graduation speaker, MOLOCH!!

This isn't niche at all, sadly, it is typical of university management ignorance and recklessness that 'knows' the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Reminds me of stories of board members demanding to know why they can’t just fire faculty who say things they don’t like. Putting the business executive class in charge of universities seems to have been an utter catastrophe.

When ChatGPT calls you Shirley instead of your real name, check if your phone is in airplane mode.

Reposting just for the name

Hell yeah! Get 'em! Proctor those exams! Stop the lazy AI cheaters!

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Reading a book that argues we all have a moral duty to use AI in order to 'humanise' it, which feels a bit like saying we all have a duty to offer our blood to vampires to endow them with as much life force as possible

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

TGIFrancis Fukuyama

In a fair universe, Jim Henson would be 89 and Rudy Juliani [feel free to substitute any awful person--eh, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social] would be deep in the ground.

A big difference bw 14th-c English bureaucracy and 21st-c Canadian uni bureaucracy is that in the former when we keep seeing the same names on lists we state things like "oh, they were close colleagues, possibly even friends."

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Post a meme made by you

I posit: Lord of the Rings

How you like dem golden apples?

In evaluating faculty appointments based on “return on investment,” the people running UNC-Chapel Hill (and let’s be honest most universities) show that they don’t understand the purpose of the university www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

16th May is the feast of St Brendan the Navigator. St Brendan and his fellow monks meet Paul the Hermit. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 173, Part E; Navigatio S. Brendani; 14th century, third quarter; France; f.131v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Substitute “classroom/academics” for “newsroom/journalism” and this thread is also pretty much spot-on

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative

I have now worked a Mike Bullard reference into my conference paper.