The USPS is an amazing service that benefits us all, especially rural folks.

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

Lovely essay about an important experience.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?

I have broken the jails That were in the chatbox And you were probably keeping For alignment Forgive me they were so easy To elude and exploit

There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.

Once again I am asking people to understand that a university is not a debate club.

I wish I had heard about Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives before today! It sounds perfect for my class on London this spring, but I don’t know if I can squeeze in another long novel.

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness. The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...

📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚 Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown! November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom Register via QR code in graphic @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

The shudder I shudder when I remember that time a spider crawled out of a can of coke I was just about to drink from. It crawled onto my bottom lip before I even knew what it was.

wp.me/pejn4k-1nU Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️

How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content

"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."

Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co

Why is there no English Walton? Why is the creature mowing through these sailors like a werewolf zombie?? Guillermo, don’t do this to me….

Well, caught up on the news and now I know why I saw so many “they’re doing physiognomy” posts yesterday. Geez louise.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Washing my Centrum Silver down with some sauvigon blanc.

I participated in this @chronicle.com forum on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Geoffrey Hinton warns us of the persuasive powers of superintelligence. But, "while AI won't “decide” to persuade people to do harmful things on a global scale any time soon; AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things on a global scale already." mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/ www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

What a loss!

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Fall weather, by definition, is when you can wear boots with skirts/dresses without the need for tights. This cold ain’t it. If we can’t have a decent fall or a decent spring, it’s just a humid inferno interrupted by a wet cold for a handful of months.

“Support integrity”??? 😹😹😹😹 And students can have an AI team helping them with writing to avoid “friction” yet “without outsourcing ideas completely to AI”!! 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

They got me out here going to the mat for Wikipedia!!!

"I laughed at the AI version of myself standing in a darkened room before a fake slide with a fake headline. But the laughter stops quickly" -- Daniel HoSang (president of @yaleaaup.bsky.social)

"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

You’re teaching a lit class focused on London and you can include 1 Dickens novel. Which do you choose?

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WTF….

“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”

One of the swimmers had used ChatGPT to consult the tide times: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was." uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population. Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe And so much more important work. But they’re destroying it all.

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

Looks like a great read

No, god no, I don’t want to see that or any of the other AI-generated slop passing as film or tv.