A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker. A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker. You are not using AI; AI is using you. Stop it.

ham and pineapple is actually very good. sweet and salty. prosciutto e melone, if you need to be fancy.

I ask this same question weekly. I joke that most people are some version of Blanche DuBois in that they too, "have always relied upon the kindness of strangers."

love being in the easatern time zone but feeling like i’m on california time right now — gonna hate it in the morning!

this is how I feel every time I make a run to Costco

my seatmate in first class just picked his nose and ate his booger

I am continually amazed by the complete lack of just basic situational / spatial awareness exhibited by my fellow humans. how did you live to this age without paying one fking shred of attention to what's going on around you?

the Dallas Stars Elite youth hockey team is on my flight

I may have purchased not one but two travel blankets while waiting for my connecting flight here at DFW. I will be broke before I will be cold again

someone please alert the NYT to the relative geography of Dallas and Houston

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

apparently American Airlines doesn't believe in heating their aircraft. i might die of frostbite up in here

Today is the first day of my retirement that I regret not being in a workplace. #ruinaworkplace

Are Women People?

Have you ruined a workplace today?

against my better judgment, I am at the airport waiting to board a plane

If I lived in Los Angeles, nothing would keep me from this. Not inertia or traffic or a cloud of locusts. NOTHING.

As someone who spent a decade in local govt, it IS made up of Leslie Knopes. I'm one. Like I'm realistic & a bitch but... people who work in govt do believe in the mission & desperately want to make things better. Parks and Recs is a documentary & I can't even with calling her a neoliberal shill.

I’m supposed to fly to Detroit tomorrow w/ a return flight on Sunday. booked my ticket w/ frequent flyer miles. how screwed am i going to be if they start canceling flights?

I love that Fresno, Orange, San Benito, and Merced voted for Prop 50.

who do you think voted for Spanberger and Sherrill? who do you think preserved the PA court tonight? who came out to support redistricting in CA? self-described moderates in the millions. history teaches us that the future isn’t fixed, nothing is inevitable, every moment is ripe with possibility.

whew. we’ve had Eugene Debs tonight, and the founding fathers, and now Walt Whitman I am loving the vibe

Gavin Newsom: "This bear roared."

This. Bear. Roared. yessss

who do you think voted for Spanberger and Sherrill? who do you think preserved the PA court tonight? who came out to support redistricting in CA? self-described moderates in the millions. history teaches us that the future isn’t fixed, nothing is inevitable, every moment is ripe with possibility.

Egypt is my dream destination. How spectacular.

California…knows how to party!

glad some of you jokers can’t see my “mute” list, ‘cause you just joined it!

“Stand for something that isn’t power!” this all day long

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

we got you, fam

Steve Kornacki should have had a succession plan in place. We deserved a training montage: Kornacki holding a stopwatch while a bunch of khaki clad nerds practice their Big Board maneuvers, K. with a tape measure to check the proper length/positioning of their rolled-up sleeves. Velshi ain‘t it

Steve Kornacki should have had a succession plan in place. We deserved a training montage: Kornacki holding a stopwatch while a bunch of khaki clad nerds practice their Big Board maneuvers, K. with a tape measure to check the proper length/positioning of their rolled-up sleeves. Velshi ain‘t it

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.

we watched S4E1 of The Witcher. i guess we’ll finish the season, which is more than I can say for that godawful last season of Wheel of Time. the RenFaire faux-medieval cliches of the fantasy adventure genre are getting on my nerves. a tavern scene! campfire banter! a dream of destiny! yawn

for the first time in my life I have altered an old article of clothing rather than buy something new AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE UNLOCKED A SUPERPOWER

A very good point - the right to refuse to use genAI must be enshrined as a principle of academic ethics

Burnt to a crisp.

I have been working on a talk about Sam Clemens, Mark Twain, and the idea of Mark Twain, and it really brought into focus how much most pundits are only ever dealing with the idea of whatever it is they're talking about.

baseball will absolutely break your heart it is and ever will be The Game

A really good piece. I especially appreciated this paragraph, on how the maudlin discourse around LLM art repackages clichés as universals

I take it the World Series was stressful 😂😂

i may never sleep

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.