This came today; 1928 deco-era letter press pamphlet cover for an event that used to be held at the Univ. I work for. Verified with Univ. archives & a solid provenance. Will be framed & hung in my office. Came packaged in this dutch(?) language children’s book. Historic rainbow action for my office

Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets promoted to CEO

🤷🏿‍♂️

If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

We used to be a real country. We used to care about kerning.

LLMs can’t do math, but they are doing math in order to not do math. And sometimes when doing math to do not math they create things that can do math. Got it?

“The depictions in the media and from clinicians suggest that people are mainly experiencing delusions, and for that reason, clinicians prefer ‘AI-mediated delusions’ rather than the snappier but less accurate ‘AI psychosis’ to describe the phenomenon.”

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Oh.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

This is helpful info if you too are in search of a C-19 booster!!

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

And!! Why is it that on Wednesday they were setting up for tailgates? There’s RV’s parked, canopies up, new flowers being planted today. The grip football has on our society will always amaze me. #academicchatter

I gotta talk to whoever planned the layout of this campus. Why is it the football stadium is always next to/close to the fine arts building?? #academicchatter #academicsky

"smart watch" as a portable computer is pointless. the wearable computer should take up your entire forearm and fold out like a yugioh duel disk and also you can do poses with it

That’s why we created this worksheet, and why I’m organizing workshops this week, including one on facilitating people’s assemblies.

she is the icon, she is the moment 💅

one of my faculty friends said that syllabus week was our finals week and I’ve never felt so seen before in that moment this photo is a close second tho #academicchatter #academicsky

the man is no socialist but I will follow the guy or gal who shows themselves best made for the moment without throwing marginalized members of the coalition under the bus to do it and right now that's JB.

Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...

The building of Fort Sheridan didn't stop the industrial labor movement from taking root in Chicago. And we now have a black man forged in Chicago's labor left as mayor, leading off the Labor Day march from Haymarket Square, preparing for the inevitable attacks on our city from the oligarchy.

I’m absolutely howling lmao

Glad to see Pritzker standing up forcefully against the current tyrant in chief. Needless to say, none of this is normal, and every day it’s pushing us closer and closer to an outright shooting war. If you’re a member of the military, remember you swore an oath to the Constitution above all else.

Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.

There is no cure for rabies

Via Time magazine: time.com/7295195/ai-c...

I honestly feel like ChatGPT is going to yield a whole new level of dementia in future generations because folks have just stopped using their brains. It’s really quite harrowing.

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Millennials are middle aged now but not me. I stayed young somehow

🤷🏿‍♂️

We actually do not have to leave anyone behind

This is my favorite podcast in the whole entire world and I hope everyone else enjoys this ep as much as I do!!!!!!!!!! Thank u @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social 💌 your podcast got me through the beginning of COVID and helped me remember laughter is healing.

“When people suffer loneliness, the antidote will always and forever be other people. It is society’s job to grease the wheels for these interactions, not to muck up their gears with AI companions.”

They seem very concerned with making things easy to read, but then it’s still 6pt type with 6pt leading. Anyway I love stuff like this wnanews.com/2025/08/30/w...

Ashes II (Aske II), by Edvard Munch, 1899, 📸 via @nocontextcfb

Every application of these tools deployed against incarcerated people has some analogue in the spaces where people adopt these technologies willingly or in our ostensibly free society. This is not coincidental.

LOUDER NOW!!!!👏👏👏

I broke my IG hiatus to speak out about the injustice Hamilton Wood Type Museum has done to IBé Crawley. I wanted to bring this over to bsky because this is now my primary platform, and the typography/print sky communities need to be made aware. 1/🧵 #typophiles #printsky #letterpress

Microsoft's Clippy didn't deserve all the abuse he got. He was only trying to help. You could even disable him at any time if he got too irritating, which is more than you can say about a lot of modern software features.

this administration is about breaking things apart as a domination strategy, dismantling to put loyalists in place, and these sites are no exception. gebbia is the new musk and it smells like failure, not progress, like the cheap gold trimmings in the oval office

“Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

If you think that @rweingarten.bsky.social & the @aft.org should NOT be partnering with murderous companies like OpenAI, please call the AFT, ask for the president's office, and tell them to STOP PUSHING "A.I." INTO SCHOOLS. (Pls be nice to the person answering the phone.) 202-879-4400

TW: self harm and suicide This is exactly what I’m getting at. There’s no accountability for these models. Someone needs to be held to account for tragedies like this. This could’ve been completely avoided and this person would still be alive.

Here’s my big three today: #academicchatter

but…hobonichi sales start on 8/31 😭😭😭😭

I was told this is the 'scutwork' chatgpt could do for almost nothing

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs