A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

After such a week, the Friday mood:

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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

ok i had to

never thought i'd say it, but i really do wish dick cheney were alive to see this

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Trolling each other since 1054

True meaning of Transness

it's getting to be rote at this point but promise me domestic prosecutions and accession to the international criminal court if you want my vote

Even at BEST it's like - people on my campus keep saying but students will need this! For the job market! Okay? If carpentry turned out to be the new hot thing tomorrow would *I* need to teach it in my class? Or could they take a carpentry class and leave me alone.

spending the morning on peer review, and my raw notes currently include "this whole thing smacks of gender"

ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"

ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

it's important to remember a person in the fullness of who they were. jane goodall was also a scarf as outerwear style icon, and a babe

JSTOR Labs engineers must think empathetically about the code we write and the impact it can have (and we get to write and publish about that process!) If you find Ryan's experience interesting, come join him on our team: www.ithaka.org/job/46013390...

Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:

Many thanks to @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social for this fantastic piece on our new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies

Re-upping the role I’m hiring for @jstor.bsky.social for a mid-level typescript developer to take on the tangle of credit transfer challenges faced by millions of students today. You’ll join a scaling team with other delightful devs, designers, and policy experts. DM me with ?s grnh.se/19o370345us

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

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the history will continue until morale improves

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Ah, but this isn't the right type of political violence to be concerned about. Sorry

Oh no, the people who were threatening to deport or murder me yesterday on social media are threatening to deport and murder me today.

the only way to revitalize america's economy is to begin building ludicrously impractical atrium hotels again

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

I’ve written versions of this before, but as people contemplate the bursting of the AI bubble, they often point to MOOCs as an example—& I do think the MOOC hype is a useful comparison, but *not* because we can talk about MOOCs in the past tense—the hype is past, but MOOCs are very much with us+

These boots are made for walkin And that's just what they'll do One of these days these boots Are gonna function as some boots

You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.

John Henry Dearle

Earth, I suppose, was the first cyborg. Liquid metal sheathed in stone sheathed in water and flesh. Now, with the canny intelligence of the flesh seeping back into the stones, it gazes out a billion curious and hungering eyes.

Did you ever wonder what was going on in the world of Edvard Munch’s The Scream? Thanks to AI we can finally go beyond the boundaries to discover new secrets! It’s Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett!

My god, the Borg would have driven cats nuts.

One of those days

Good read on sustainibility of a very particular pedagogical model with lessons for those in the business of teaching DH.

After working hard at it for several years, we sunset @jstor.bsky.social's Constellate platform this month. Amy Kirchhoff writes about lessons learned and the challenges of making this kind of service sustainable: labs.jstor.org/blog/constel...

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

I often err on the side of being too abrupt at work. But I’m unapologetic about “thanks folks!” + slamming the end meeting button as a completely appropriate way to close out a meeting of mine that has accomplished its purpose.

Shitting on their most popular energizing young talent while trying to win Republican votes is going great

“First, the Research Assistant is built to only answer a specific type of question. While all search tools can be described that way, anyone who’s worked for more than 30 seconds with actual humans knows that they don’t always use things in the way we intend.“ ruthtillman.com/post/summon-...

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

I just now realized that some guys think that fancy predictive text can make new scientific discoveries but that doesn’t even make sense.

Jenny Holzer, Redacted (Top Secret), 2012