Phew, just managed to get my 4C27 proposal in. That deadline sure did sneak up on me!

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

Well worth the subscription if you love absolutely incredible film criticism.

Having spent the weekend marathoning HBO’s Rooster, I can confidently say it’s fantastic and I love it. Top marks across the board, but especially for John C. McGinley.

You know AI is evil when it has me rooting for elsevier

Replace all mentions of “linen” with “lasagna.”

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Lol "earn" a billion dollars. Nobody "earns" a billion dollars.

chromebooks in particular to me mark a shift toward apps and platforms rather than tools and devices and skills, which i think is also one of the biggest problems with llms in schools. training disempowered consumers while pretending we are training empowered users

Always great to finally see my scholarship in print. This year’s issue of Instructional Forum is out today! Had a ton of fun writing about what video games can teach us about course design. www.pgcc.edu/instructiona...

Writing is an invention that is about 5000 years old. No one killed & revived it in 6 months. This is next level absurdity. It's time people learn how writing actually works from people who study it all day, every day. Prioritize the funding of writing programs. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

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Allow me to suggest that if the actual Pope, the head of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, one of the most conservative entities in existence, is way too far left for you, you might need to reconsider your place on the political spectrum.

I feel like now is a good time to share this again

can’t count the number of times I’ve arrived at a conclusion much better than I originally intended simply by writing. having the hazy outline of an idea and then foisting the rest onto a machine means you never get there. worse, you never develop the instincts or faculties necessary to get there

This. 👇 👇 👇 👇 Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #edchat #edreform #edpolicy #edtech #edcolo #edutwitter #teachertwitter #k12 #edadmin #suptchat #edleaders #edleadership #principals #AIinEDU

🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it

Mushrooms are extraordinary

That’s one hell of a cover…..

This "high" and "low" value language is exactly the kind of Aspen Institute language that my college is using to argue that we should disincentivize students from enrolling in arts programs or our hyper-flexible, transfer-focused General Studies degree. We hates it. We hates it all.

Oh good, and just a few months before my annual noggin' MRI to check for brain metastasis.

"Impotence is not a good look in a potentate." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Currently reading a book called Class Struggle Unionism, and I would encourage all labor-focused folks to look into this framework.

The Israeli regime is fascist and genocidal. The population supports the regime's actions at more than 80% in most polls. You don't have to argue with people online when these are facts.

Having just presented a paper that I’ve been building for the last year, it’s good to be reminded of this. Sharing the work felt anticlimactic in a way, but that’s only one small step in a much longer process.

The mist has finally cleared in Cleveland and I can see Lake Erie from my hotel room. This is incredible. I have spent my whole life near water, both the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. This is much more akin to the ocean, which is absolutely mind blowing.

Look folks, say whatever you want about conferences. But I just met someone I’ve been internet friends with for like a decade in person for the first time and it was awesome.

All right Cleveland friends and #4C26 folks: where’s a good spot for lunch near the convention center?

Racist grandpa decomposing in real time for all to see

There, fixed it

Heck yeah, the booze store down the street from my house has the Beat!

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

in a properly ordered world this excellent and very funny @edburmila.bsky.social review of the Gavin Newsom memoir would also function as a campaign post-mortem newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Oh dang. Yep, I'm out. Shame, Xbox has been my gaming home for the last 20 years and I've been a huge fan of the platform that whole time.

A whole bunch of people who were not thinking about abolition at all in 2020 are not just thinking about it, they're actually practicing, they're actually working, they're actually raising people in the world with new ideas and ways of being."

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Starting to get really stoked about CCCC in a couple of weeks! I'll be presenting at 2:00p on Friday (my first time presenting at 4Cs, and my first major conference presentation in over a decade). Session details: s1.goeshow.com/ncte/cccc/20...

the analogy I use with friends and family all the time is the jump from collegiate to professional sports. as soon as I explain it that way, it clicks in their brains what the academic job market is like.

Hmmm. Louder then.

Our rallying cry for public education and public libraries: “Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.” stimpunks.org/philosophy/f...

Anyone have recommendations for good spots to grab a bite to eat in Cleveland? I'm starting to put together a plan for #4C26 and am starting with food. Also, if any mutuals wants to hang out, I'd love to do that!

Brody King absolutely rules for lots of reasons. AEW fans supporting him with "Fuck ICE" chants is just the latest one.

Celebrated my 38th birthday this weekend. Happy to still be here for another trip 'round the sun.

Abolition is the only way forward. Reform doesn’t work. Accountability doesn’t work. Training doesn’t work. Body cameras don’t work. Tear it all down and build something better.

That’s so Ravens

Entire Ravens coaching staff needs to go. They were this close to the playoffs simply because they field a handful of generational / all-time greats on both sides of the ball.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.