do they just not want to be a university anymore?

Ok conceptually I understand but cannot help but feel victimized by Zotero’s new “recently read” feature. Like ok don’t kick a man when he’s down.

but they were all of them deceived, for another monday was made

"At least $8 billion annually" gets spent on "internal anti-union infrastructure". "Employers are not confused or irrational. They are acting like a class of people who understand exactly what is at stake." jacobin.com/2026/05/unio... via @chactivist.bsky.social & @jacobinmag.bsky.social

I bought my kid one of those visual timers that the teachers recommend thinking maybe I’d also use it for writing but mostly I use to take a measured little nap on the couch.

I love Worcestershire sauce so much

“Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining … We estimate that employers spend roughly $1.7 billion a year on union avoidance consultants and law firms” @epi.org @laborlab.bsky.social and @bunkum.us www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Having a terrible run with underdressing and then overdressing for the weather. This is so embarrassing I’m going back into torpor.

fighting for my life defending my completely unresearched position that the “giant runt” variety of pigeon is actually just a normal pigeon puffed up and standing next to unusually tiny or nervous/psychologically fragile pigeons

No, my child, we would certainly never allow Maxwell's silver hammer to come down upon her head

I love public transit and I am so grateful to live in a place where it is abundant and functional for my purposes

Imagine making a beautiful Trini-style hot sauce and then calling it “nuclear bacchanal”

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

A lot of people are gleefully pointing out various data elements this gets wrong, but the thing is, that doesn’t matter; this all gets lumped into a sellable product anyway. They’re not trying to individually identify you because they care about *you*; it’s just a way to add value to a data product.

universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

There’s a particularly fetching vintage steel frame that I often see parked by the nearest subway station, and for the first time in three-ish years of admiring it, I happened to catch its owner and got to say “nice bike” lol

On the edupunk discussion of Long, Long, Ago, about rolling your own LMS!

For $500 this usually invisible property of a system becomes most apparent at the moment of failure

honestly if some venture capitalist /tech mogul can remake an entire university in a matter of a year or two in exchange for around 2 days of Bezos’s salary(USC founded 1880), it means that any rich person can do anything to any of our institutions at any time unless we take them back systematically

Everyone knows about Frog and Toad and the cookies that Toad bakes, and that Frog puts in a box and ties up with string and puts on a high shelf, and how Toad says they can cut the string and open the box and climb the ladder and get the box down from the shelf...

"As a company founded in 1930 on the principles of 'safety, durability, and play value,' we felt the logical next step was autonomous kill drones."

From the @aaup.org mothership: "Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History" You're damn right it does.

No school on Good Friday and then no school on Easter Monday, my child has spent enough time stuck with me to elicit his first parentally-directed “bruh”

My child loves the song Rasputin by Boney M. and unfortunately there is no one else to blame but me

The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center reveals the “political and planetary stakes” of AI and the threat of “tech-enhanced militarism,” @tisjune.bsky.social , @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social & @nathanckim.bsky.social write in #Academe:

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

One of the things I miss now that I live in NYC is that beautiful brutalist baby the DC Metro. Happy Birthday, we love you.

What exactly is one supposed to do with a child's lost teeth? The teeth that have fallen out

I eat avocados straight out of the skin with a spoon and my girl looks at me like Pippin watching Denethor eat cherry tomatoes.

I blocked instagram and facebook in the hosts file on my computer and I must say I think it is real boon for the good old mh (mental health)

vacuumed up a small cat’s worth of dust

I’d lay claim to being computer guy

When one to-do item begets more and more follow-on to-do items but you repeatedly come back to the list and there is nothing to check off because the progenitor has already been accounted for and the offspring were never on the list

This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Whoever designed the malm bed deserves a tribunal for crimes against shins and knees

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

Pretty sure this is what they do with Trump

This great piece resonates with my own sense of loss and mourning of my social and professional identity as a computer programmer as the community of software engineers embraces LLMs and continues to sink further into surveillance and behavioral manipulation-based technofascistic business models.

I have nothing against Sheertex as a company, but I do want to say this: in 2014 I bought a stack of completely unremarkable black tights on clearance at Urban Outfitters (just their in-house brand), and I still have several pairs in rotation. They’re basically like new…

I grew up in a russian family (and I think this is also true in the U.S.) where French language is holistically vaporized into High Culture only to move to Canada where the dual-language packaging mandate has me reading debased formulations such as “Cheez-it format familial… 75% plus de Cheez-It”

Took my kid to the monetochka concert and she not only had a section of the main floor barricaded off for people with kids and elderly but she also called all the kids up to the stage for one of the songs…

Hatred... how unscientific... — The Scientific Lover

Working at an iSchool has its perks such as, for example, working out an unofficial deal to borrow otherwise non-loanable reference books for use in class because the librarian is an alum of your program

Ethan and I brainstormed what would be the most boring audiobook that we could turn on to help force bedtime, and now the joke is on us because Basil asked for me to turn on the book about that guy, Bill Clinton