I am re-sharing this because this is such a good joke. How is this not the most viral skeet of all time.

My neighbor brought me some asparagus that was picked just this morning, and I am eating it for lunch, and I think this is what heaven tastes like.

He makes these adorable little mouth noises while he’s like this, as if the act of napping were delicious.

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

If I title a class session on facial recognition ALL YOUR FACE ARE BELONG TO US not a single student will get the joke which is why I am posting it here. Please clap.

First as farce, then as tragedy.

My most long-held pedantic writing opinion is that academics should avoid the verb "emphasize" because of how frequently people use that word to avoid accurately describing the relationship between two things.

Being a historian sometimes (often) means you’ll be skipping along doing your research and then realizing oh c’mon I have to translate this terrible poem from French myself now because no one has yet.

Genuine chat j’ai pété moment.

Indeed. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Big fan of talbot

I love my drunk roommate.

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Delighted to report that we bought a copy of the new Merriem Webster dictionary and inaugurated it tonight by looking up “inspissate.”

I am in the buying-sci-fi-comics-from-ebay and deciding whether-to-assign-Hackers stage of new course prep for the fall.

I don't know how this got started, but for over 5 years my husband & I have been hiding t/o the house this picture of a pallas cat for one another to find, & after a long cat-less period we found it under the bed, which sparked a new round of hiding. Curious to see how many years we can keep it up.

Great remarks by @ali-alkhatib.com "if we’re going to “destroy AI” in a sense that matters, we need to build counter-institutions...we need to support one another...so that exploitative palliative non-solutions like chatbot counselors are incomprehensible to us..." ali-alkhatib.com/blog/techno-...

And today I got one with a drawing of a garden! These thank-you cards from students make me extremely happy. I'm not even sure students realize how huge these gestures are, especially now.

Me, hanging out the window of my first apartment smoking a Camel and listening to the Postal Service.

Thanks to someone in the comments for identifying the source, which is University of Central Florida. Link to full video here www.youtube.com/live/zwYkHS8...

Among my obsessions, the critical importance of government documents. As a historical subject as well as source. IOW, it's *always* been a data state. My new piece for Smithsonian on chasing paperwork around the American Revolution. Owes to work by: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ever...

I wrote this in 2021. Funding for Humanities + AI has one main purpose and that’s to offer a positive image for an antidemocratic project of power consolidation and upwards wealth transfer grounded in the use of this technology. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Shout out to Mr. Rogers and that crayon factory video when my brain was still developing: I have a well regulated limbic system.

Happy Mother’s Day.

I have been on about something similar for years. There’s an opportunism to the research out there that uses machine learning to show how biased computer vision is, but people keep doing this work bc being in the humanities and doing things with AI gets funding. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

Pruned the lilac out back and brought some of the outside inside.

I just overheard a student on Smith campus complaining to her friend, “the class was on Slack, on Moodle, on everything… How are we supposed to keep track?” Platform education is driving our students to despair.

Consensus appears to be that this is a mink. Also a first! That means that over the past year or so, and not counting my first trip to the Dakotas, Wyoming, & Montana last summer I have seen for the first time: a mink, beaver, great horned owl, snowy owl. All in my town. Not bad for a gal from NYC.

I saw my first otter in the wild!!!!!!

Talbot is way too subtle about suggesting that he deserves a post-dinner beef chew, which is kept in a cabinet in this room.

I am sorry for the temper tantrum I just threw because the library is closed and I wanted to read this book right now.

Looking for some bibliography help! What's a good book on the silk industry in 19th-century Lyon? I'm particularly interested in labor history and the mechanization of looms. All I've been getting are hagiographies of Jacquard so clearly I'm not searching well.

WHO is leaving half-drunk bottles of seltzer in every room in this house and WHY is it ME?

Came home from work yesterday to a fresh loaf of bread baked by a friend, and received today a promise of fresh local asparagus from a neighbor (to be delivered tomorrow morning). I live in a very lovely place.

2024: shot 2026: chaser

private details of health and social vulnerabilities students disclose in comms to their faculty are precisely what makes data of young people - soon to make the largest spending decisions of their life like more education debt, car ownership, home ownership - valuable enough to force platform use

THIS THIS THIS. Thread.

Public Books is a fantastic publication, and it deserves recognition. Which is not what T Magazine offered. www.publicbooks.org/style-guide/

Go to the meeting. No one is coming to save you.

If the founding rationale of a product is to *diminish labor,* how effective does anyone think a policy of laboriously verifying the labor they diminished is going to be? We have been subject to successive waves of rhetoric in favor of these products, each one more self-defeating than the last.

Everything from low-overhead high enrolllment online courses to generate revenue to the FOMO-driven zeal to partner with OpenAI has manufactured this situation. Not mendacious 18-year-olds. The grownups are the ones who aren’t alright.

The kids-not-being-alright is just a convenient story to conceal how many of the people that are in the journalist's own age-group or social milieu shook hands with the very industry that's attempting to destroy education.

This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

The timing of this Canvas hack made me laugh, since this is my class’s very next assigned reading (which they now can’t access lol) eric.ed.gov?q=lms+AND+k1...

Great thread and responses.