📖 Imported a Pressbooks open textbook into Grav Helios Open Reader via Python 😎 Result: Save My Place, LMS embedding, Git Sync & plain text export — all as Markdown. Source: opentextbc.ca/workinggroup... Demo: test.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-2-skele... Thanks to the authors! #OER #OpenEd #GravCMS

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Cartoonist: Adam Zyglis

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

New preprint! We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews. We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well. A thread 🧵 w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

"Why should students continue to spend years on research tasks that AI can handle in minutes?" Because the point of having students do research is for the students to learn how to do research. Also: the AI cannot, in fact, handle it.

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Our @normeisen.bsky.social is working with @karenattiah.bsky.social to fight for her First Amendment rights.

These e-bike-loving parents have been breaking the law for school drop off. Why the province is finally shifting gears - Toronto Star apple.news/AcYAm-eJpSMu...

Biking along the Stanley Park seawall, joined by a pod of orcas and otters. Beautiful British Columbia 🇨🇦🍁 🎥 Credit @arlenexa via IG ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

New OMB rule would move science funding from experts to political appointees, and let agencies cancel grants mid-project. Wrote up the plain version + how to comment before July 13. open.substack.com/pub/lettheda...

I’m considering whether I could set this up as required reading for students to gain access to my module canvas sites. Such a great summary of important issues.

🤘🏻 @profandyfield.com

From Josef Chen on the other site: "we trained the largest multilingual food model ever built. 4.1M recipes. 7 languages. 1,790 ingredients. 300 dimensions. All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes." arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

This week marks the return of Open Streets season in Montreal, featuring some of the best pedestrian streets in North America. It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when we prioritize people over automobiles on even just a small fraction of our streets. 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦

As the saying goes, no lies detected:

I love this bsky.app/profile/rfks...

AI God Father: "I don't believe in god(s) except for the one I myself created."

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

If US wealth were spread equally over all households, the poorest 50% of households today would get *$1.2 million* richer on average. The next-poorest 40% of households would get $300k richer on average. Only the richest 10% of Americans would lose any wealth, at all. Calculations and data source:

FWIW, I’ve got an archive of self-created, self-hosted, open-source, non-extractive, non-surveillant class websites going back 22 years! wordsinspace.net/classes/

Hey #WestKelowna, join me in advocating for improvements to the Boucherie Multi-use Pathway! cmadland.github.io/blog/posts/b... #cycling #infrastructure #gobybike #accessibility

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This is so very telling. What a moment for her to learn how university students feel about #aiSlop

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

“The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself.” 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/federal...

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

#DigitalSovereignty is going to be a buzzword for a while jilltxt.net/uib-self-hos...

Curious that Instructure got hacked weeks after Einstein (the AI agent that could do all the student things) gathered the credentials of thousands of faculty and students… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.