Here, this makes them viable candidates for higher office.

It's eugenics it's all the way down, folks.

Some of us are still wearing masks to teach (and elsewhere). What a self-centered asshole.

Everything I have eaten today is some form of carbs +cheese.

So heinous! This would be a good time to donate to Planned Parenthood

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

I disagree with this, and playing realpolitik games with these people is how you end up with President Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2028. I'm not kidding. Hillary Clinton's campaign helped promote Trump in 2016 thinking his candidacy would help her cause.

Why is it that the more I technically "accomplish"/the more my CV grows, the emptier I feel? Isn't it supposed to feel good to achieve your goals?

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

There’s this weird thing where the media keeps running profiles of different men telling me that people “hate him because he’s brilliant” and every single time I have to pause for a second to ask “wait, people think he’s brilliant”?

Has a single reporter ever straight-up asked Trump what's going on with his hands? Im sure the answer would be...illuminating...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

There's a "these hoes ain't loyal" joke in here somewhere...

I dont know if it's just weird nostalgia but i miss the early 2010's.

Genuinely astounded there are still ppl out here who can simultaneously a) recognise that science & technology are inherently social processes which embed our values in systems & artifacts, & also b) completely deny that the historical foundations of technoscience actually matter a whole fucking lot

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Weird seeing Americans take the same line on ChatGPT as they do on guns. Not a great sign.

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.

Someone needs to take an STS class or two.

...and sometimes you end up acquiring a PhD in the attempt to prove that person wrong.

The Times only quotes current students & faculty on the record, who are not so critical. Which sort of makes sense if selected into campus or don't want to be fired. Nothing from former faculty/students or off-the-record. A recent Inside Higher Ed piece quoted current faculty with a different view:

We have been living this for 2.5 years. And it's going to be even worse when the other half passes.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

Universities are increasingly jumping on the "one price course materials" scam in which students all pay the same fee and have access to digital versions of their reading. Maybe this is a good idea in a world where the biochem text is $250. I hate it for specific reasons. >

I do not want AI in my house. I do not want AI to generate a blouse. I do not want it in my games I do not want it to win fame. I do not want it, to be fair, Because I do not want it anywhere

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

Lawn darts!

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I bet banning any passenger vehicle larger than a Honda Civic would do wonders for road safety.

Clearly, they are an ice cream sundae. Or vice versa.

I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system

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Reaching the sending friends extremely ENRAGED texts portion of the holiday season, myself

Sigh. Even if genAI chatbots were effective at this, how does it overcome the ethical issues like theft of intellectual property, power use, water use, labor abuses, or other environmental effects on communities with the data centers?

Find me a piece of ed tech from the past thirty years that's genuinely more about student learning than it is about extracting more labor from fewer teachers. Can't be done!

How I'm walking out of 2025

Quote this with what you accomplished in 2025 no matter how big or small. My co-edited volume, Do Less Harm, was published. Became a co-editor of the journal Osiris. Got some health stuff figured out. Completed major repairs of our house. Spoiled my dogs. Returned to Paris. Slept a lot.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Butt phrenology is a new one, even for me. Signed, A Historian Who Wrote a Book on Phrenology P.S. *sigh*

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"