I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

I am a tyrant at conferences. I want papers to be polished and well-timed.

I have a story like this, but it's about archeologists/classicists.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

professors who ask for proof of medical emergencies or deceased family members need to stop. I’d rather one hundred students lie to me about dead grandmas & get away with it than force even one to send me an obituary when they’re grieving. it costs nothing to trust your students.

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

UPDATE: Hegseth has included VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on a list of schools off limits for tuition assistance for military officers as part of his campaign against schools he describes as “biased” against the US military.🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

me, 8: i'm gonna be somebody someday me, 38: i'm gonna take the world's best nap

Yet you still won’t be able to comment on footnotes

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.

75% of my students are future health professionals. Do you really want a physician or nurse or pharm. who has no critical reading/thinking skills, who cannot communicate worth a damn or knows enough to ask questions/problem-solve when something feels off? Would you put your life in the hands of AI?

All I do is meet, meet, meet, no matter what (What) Got meetings on my mind, I definitely have enough And every time I speak up in the meeting everybody brows go up And they stay there

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them

Considering the previous "draw down" was purely symbolic, I'm skeptical about what this will functionally mean. That said, for the sake of the people of Minnesota, I pray it's true and that this campaign of terror will soon be over.

Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky #HigherEd

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

Things I hear on campus as we continue to adapt to AI. Plenty try to incorporate it. Others: - med school faculty going back to oral exams - comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Frankly, I’m embarrassed it took me this long to figure it out. But given the current climate, I think we should’ve collectively realized it wasn’t appropriate for a baby to be the patron saint of fucking."

This decision was made without consulting a single CU Boulder professor with AI expertise. And AFAIK there was one professor *total* involved. More info, such as it is, here: https://www.cu.edu/gen-ai Check the "Guiding Principles" section for entertainment.

‘I can’t live without AI!’ Were you born three years ago? Is this your first time experiencing the wonder of human thought and free will? ‘Can’t live without AI’ How embarrassing.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Chrome will now "autobrowse" and take action for you. Free. And it just took a quiz on my behalf in Canvas after a little coaxing.

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

It's enraging to understand the amount of thought, time, craft, and care that every writer and artist I know puts into their work only to see these GenAI proselytizers have the gall to take that work, shove it into a blender, and then demand we enthusiastically support them and the resulting slop.

Please honor James’ memory by getting screened for colorectal cancer. Make the call today if you are 45 or have a family history. Rates are surging among young people. Catching it early is the best way to survive it. www.cancer.org/cancer/types...

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Age verification? Pogs.

The One. Productive. Thing. I did yesterday, the incredibly tedious thing that took me several hours, was actually done in such a fashion that I need to delete everything and start over.

making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

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Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Nothing makes me feel good like scrolling through multiple TikTok videos of medical school students going through their newly minted AI generated textbooks and making slideshows of all of the errors including completely made up muscles and tendons - can’t wait to age in this hellscape

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Digital asbestos.

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.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.