On a special episode of On TAP, Helen Shaw, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, joins us to talk about theatre criticism, journalism, and pedagogy. Click through to listen, or subscribe in your favorite podcasting app... www.ontappod.com/home/2026/5/...

Not to worry everyone, I have a plan to fix Canvas.

"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."

“The current political atmosphere is surely proof that the majority of the general public simply cannot be frightened into climate action by stories of future impacts, no matter how luridly described.” substack.com/app-link/pos...

Next do Massachusetts.

They'll do anything to try to change the story on this guy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/n...

It's honestly getting to the point where this is so funny I never want it to end. Make KP perpetual FBI director. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

I wrote up my response. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...

It’s becoming increasingly evident that securing our democracies requires ridding ourselves of the incurably reactionary classes through expropriations and confiscations.

Over on The Other Website this blog post is causing a flutter as analytic and continental philosophers fight each other. I shall try and do a longer reply later, but in essence I think... benthams.substack.com/p/what-conti...

ED 209.

Just a reminder on this Easter Sunday: 1) Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. 2) The head of state threatening to commit a war crime is itself a war crime.

Legend

One thing that gets me kicked out of the socialist club is that I fundamentally don't like the ultra aggro polemic style of the classic authors. I even polemicised against it myself here (from: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...)

Put these students in charge! Resist the corruption of higher education by business idiots.

Real talk

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Robbie Avila looks like Jokic* out there! *covered in scratches and bruises

I published this in the Boston Globe in November 2022, right before ChatGPT was released which I didn't know was coming that next week and had no idea this conversation would be where it is three years later.

Keep saying it. There are students who get it.

So did ICE

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

wrote about an 80s safety video tape directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Andrea Martin as a self-destructive adult child woman 1900hotdog.com/2026/03/lear...

where will we meet now?

No guild navigators and too much Momoa. But I'm hopeful. Foresight is a terrible gift. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v...

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

this 314 day, let us fondly recall the St. Louis Commune, and the general strike of 1877 jacobin.com/2021/07/st-l...

When it’s time for a Fortnite study break

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

You're our product...

Speaking of the public sentiment on AI — look at that complete lack of trust in both parties (and the industry) on the topic… What else polls like this? www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Every year about this time, we must rail against the clock lords, who have stolen a piece of our very life!

Pentagon use of AI reportedly responsible for the deaths of over 100 school children. A moral monstrosity.

This is great. Setting the curve. Inverse Turing Test. youraislopbores.me

Don't worry.

this reddit thread of people canceling chatgpt subscriptions is incredible www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

if not war then why war shaped

Episode 083 features On TAP emeritae Sarah Bay-Cheng and Kareem Khubchandani joining Pannill to discuss Annie Dorsen's article about generative AI as theater, Chris Grobe's new article about "botface," and "looksmaxxing." Can you handle it? Download and see! www.ontappod.com/home/2026/3/3/083

eliza, natural language processing computer program, example conversation & information about its application in the mental health field, commodore microcomputers, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/Comm...

Please share widely. I want everyone to know the truth about what’s happening at UT Austin. Faculty aren’t brainwashing anyone!

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms against-a-i.com

When I’m playing Fortnite

Ryan Hall reports 1,939 Dunkin Donuts locations are closed due to the storm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTQ...

When I’m preparing to debut a new phase of my mid-life crisis…

Fantastic read.

Just please let one of these weirdos go to jail before I run out my time on this earth.