I don’t care.

Ding. Ding. We have a winner. It's really a sad testament to this moment in knowledge production that folks have to say this out loud and also explain what it means. Sigh.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.

As usual, Miriam is on it! and right! And I'm feeling so freakin' smug in the fact, I kind of predicted this exact thing over two years ago in my pleading with usually smart folks in my field to just stop it with their AI inevitability and integration. Hmmm guess I'm not so out of touch after all.

You know what needs to go viral. Someone like Morgan Freeman reading the constitution and then facilitating a Q&A to have it explained in even simpler terms. Same with key laws. Like OMG I cannot even with how little people actually know or understand. Big sigh.

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Mood

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

OMGoodness yes. And I am still gobsmacked at how many smart folks say this very thing or similar things like trying to wrap it up in "literacy." HOLD. THE. LINE.

So many institutions are making this decision without full faculty involvement and without actually reading the growing body of research about the effects of these things on learning. There's such a great irony there.

Long overdue. theconversation.com/i-treat-meno...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

This Harper’s pullout on media consolidation caught my attention from across the concourse. As I wrote last month, this might be in my top ten list of things to make sense of.

Totally same. And dismayed for me is a long list.

enshittification is so real and just has me saying this morning why can't we have nice things that work? Sigh.

When the day is free of meetings, yet, you can't find the focus to do the things you need to do. Sigh.

New post on #FindTheMidwife today. Sasha Turner talks with us about a 17th century enslaved Barbadian midwife. www.findthemidwife.com/sasha-turner. Thanks Dr. Turner!

Going with G.

#FlowerReport #TulipTuesday Amsterdam, early spring, 2025.

update: oh hey, the review was so bad cause AI "wrote" it. "colleague" who had accepted the review admitted it. The purpose of peer review is to engage with the research and ideas which is a decidedly human activity. Sad days indeed.

Pope Leo enters the AI chat.

There is no such thing as AI literacy. It's just another form of technological literacy and fluency and it's a damn shame so many people in my own field who are supposed to be critical users of technology don't understand this basic premise.

The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time." Line in the sand. It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit. Disrespectfully, the rest of us.

Student views on the TPC service course: tek-ritr.com/student-view... Part of an in progress research project.

the google doodle today is just fabulous: g.co/doodle/93vp2...

Yeah, no, LinkedIn, it is not better on the app.

Same, girl, same.

We need to repost this with the rapidity and consistency of Tom Holland's Umbrella dance.

I’ve said since LowerEd is that neoliberal credential expansion usually starts by producing a degree to solve a short term employment bottleneck, for example in nursing in 2000s. The degrees get predatory once demand is met The AI labor market doesn’t even have the short term labor market demand!

Ding. Ding. Yes. Indeed.

And oy, I have finally muted all you "gotta put AI in all the (writing) classrooms" people. No time for that. Need my energy to actually engage the students in learning.

These tech bros out here ruthless, reckless, and regardless.

Why yes, I do indeed judge you by how you interact at the stage of copy editing and proofs.

Hypothesis: The disconnect between US news media coverage of causes of death and what Americans actually die from is then reflected in what people are scared of & what politicians invest in, or defund. Refocusing attention on causes will help all of us reduce harm. ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Yeah, no. I do not want to download your app.

Totally scalloped.

oh, hey, hanging by a thread. I see you there.

overheard on my recent trip to Europe: "You Americans need to get your act together."

"Anger at AI, smartphones, and social media—and more specifically, at the exploitative practices of the companies operating them—has galvanized people all over the world, from the youth above, to artists and advocates and academics." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

#FlowerReport Yellow tulips. Some of the first that were getting ready to bloom in Amsterdam, early spring, 2025.

#SmallJoys Since I love a cover, I have a ridiculous fondness for Post Modern Jukebox. The cover of Heart's Barracuda is, as the kids say, 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTr...

Dear academics everywhere: yes, you do need to learn proper citation style. No the copy editor won't do that for you. Cause especially in #TeamRhetoric most "copy editors" are your colleagues who don't have time to do this for you.

Dear academic conference organizers: please check the football schedule before scheduling a conference. Cause paying 3 times the price for a hotel room is not sustainable.

I don’t know what to make of this but it does make me want to watch some Designing Women www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Let me tell you something else. Nobody becomes a bigger hater than the person you helped. Nobody. And I will tell you a second thing. No one wants to argue you to the death more than the person who says they “agree with you on 99 percent of all things.” I don’t make the rules.

#FlowerReport Fall blooms.

I hope Fernandez/Williams becomes a regular thing because this is great. 🎾