Some of you haven't walked around all day for the last 30 years with the Muppet Babies theme song in your head and it really shows.

And if people want the video version: youtu.be/yP2ycK-_o_Y?...

I say again, anyone interested in sophisticated thinking about A.I. in education, or anywhere it's being forced upon us, at work or in daily life, should be following historian Sonja Drimmer. (See this article and thread.) Follow: @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Literally, "Did a Large Language Model Write This?"

Three people on TikTok, 16% of them a friend of a friend of a NYT writer’s cousin’s babysitter, are doing a weird thing and the NYT is ON IT.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Doing this tomorrow. If you're near Hartford, come on out.

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

A couple of years ago the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung plagiarized an essay I published effectivelytranslating it wholesale into German and when I complained their response was “too bad.” There is a special circle in hell for journalists who plagiarize.

In this video, inspired by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I read Evgeny Morozov's essay, 'Socialism after AI' or, as much as I could endure. Morozov writes about 'AI' using glittering generalities, lacking understanding or acknowledgment of the actually existing industry: youtu.be/NUby9eTbsuM

My husband has started a new tradition of making me bento box lunches for my teaching days this semester, and today’s is perfection.

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

The art of Robert Pruitt is a portal to Black histories and Black futures. Free immediately captivated me, and I used it as the cover for my first book. He depicts Black people with such beauty and care. #BHM

A) Read the many things that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has posted and published about this kind of story. B) I’m begging reporters to talk to other people besides Noah Charney about art history stories.

It was too cold to take our dog out for a walk this morning, so we invited over a friend & her dog so they could play in our living room and get some of their energy out. Friend brought over freshly baked bread, which I'm now eating for lunch, and this feels like a great way to cope with the temps.

Erin's filling in CHE's holes again and collecting adjunct pay info. Drop yours at the form.

Another day another press release for an AI grifter posing as news. Thanks to my friend (redacted here) for texting me this new one.

Pops is doing the lord’s work right here.

Read this thread before posting/reposting about "AI" looking for art misattribution and forgeries bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Another day another press release for an AI grifter posing as news. Thanks to my friend (redacted here) for texting me this new one.

Bezos had $75 million to bribe the Trumps with that Melania movie, but after firing Washington Post employees abandons them overseas, and their colleagues have to use Gofundme to repatriate them. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

*chef's kiss*

Scholars envisioning a radical progressive future enabled by LLMs.

The devil doesn't need any more advocates, but also: do you see the dehumanization in the move you made there? We don't "sample", we interact. Language is fundamentally social and reducing people to their "output" is the basic problematic move of the AI boosters.

This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...

Fiction is the best way to navigate our hellscape and no novel is as insightful on this as McNeil’s Wrong Way. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

I co-organized a voluntary reading group for students today, and 12 students showed up for the first meeting, and they were the fucking BEST.

There’s a reason why there’s a section in the book I’m writing called the “Da Vinci Code Bros,” and it’s because every creep with overweening self importance and unearned pride thinks he’s the next fucking Leonardo. See: NVIDIA’s Mona Lisa Demo.

Figured out the formatting of this chapter I'm writing shit itself because I have a 3/4-page-long footnote, and I'm not prepared to lose this fight with Word.

A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.

What an oddly unnerving experience it was just now driving home from work behind a car with a vanity plate that has my name on it.

Cryptocurrencies are an amazingly efficient tool for sowing distrust in democratic government and regulation, so there's that on top of all the criming too! This is a great piece from 2022 with many quotables.

Cryptocurrencies are an amazingly efficient tool for sowing distrust in democratic government and regulation, so there's that on top of all the criming too! This is a great piece from 2022 with many quotables.

My favorite quote of mine from this piece: Cryptocurrency: teaching libertarians about market failure since 2009

A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.

"desocialization" (like "social deskilling") is a good term for what was once talked about in terms of "social graph" vs. "interest graph," or of "algorithmic recommendation" nymag.com/intelligence...

For people who want even more government intrusion into their lives, but also want the ability to automate eating disorders and control their family members all with one app.

Oh. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/f...

'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum www.artforum.com/features/gen... #AI4LAM

I am a middle aged college professor. My mom does this every semester. And it is one of very favorite things.

True friendship. 😍

"Events are like weather, and this book is about climate." Really enjoyed Watts's new book on the Wars of the Roses. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

This is the only thing AI dorks are talking about on Twitter. They will read sentience into anything before pausing to engage in critical thought.

See also: hot water bottle. I keep an electric kettle in the bedroom specifically for this purpose.

I think there's something to "Epstein funded the return of race science." But the demand side of the equation is real clear: all those fancy lads in the War on Science book want to opine on the Future of Civilization but have no relevant expertise and would never get funded by the NSF to do so.

I do a jokerfied maniacal laugh now every time someone cites my work for the purposes of paying lip service to "ethical questions about AI," before not-at-all attending to those ethical questions. But then later I sob.

Part of the rationale behind this is that the technologization of education has gone hand-in-hand with an excessive drive toward professionalization, which has meant habituating students to the idea that learning is like a job (you need credit, a CV line, whatever). I'd like to offer an alternative.

To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.

I’m co-running with an excellent colleague my first voluntary reading club for students this semester, and our first meeting is this week. I’m nervous as shit that no students will show up, and this why I never wanted birthday parties when I was a kid.