The workload academics accept as normal is too much. Always be writing & publishing at huge volume, researching& expected to give your energy to tons of classes of young people. They don’t have any time to be humans & the expectations on them are unreasonable, but they accept it for the status.

Oh cool, another uninformed, fallacious cliché about AI from a celebrity. It’s funny how similar they all sound, as if they’re reading from the same script…

Oh, well if they offered assurance…🤨 I wonder if any universities will break up with Canvas after all this.

This, apparently, is Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group, getting booed on 8th May as she tells students graduating from University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities that AI is "the next industrial revolution." It seems the kids are alright.

“Marcus says he once got his scrotum stuck in the toilet after inflating it with two liters of saline.” TWO LITERS.

Yup. Feels like this publication keeps putting out stuff that seems satirical/pitch bot worthy. “Restoring trust in higher ed (granting the premises of bad faith attackers)”, “How you too can give in to AI hype”, “Our only purpose is making ‘workers of the future’ for industry” are recurrent themes.

When the post-massage coma hits

“[A] computing system…that accepts only certain kinds of ‘data,’ and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many doors that were open before it was installed.” - Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976 #criticalAI #philtech

I know it’s financially motivated, but Canvas getting hacked on the same day my university announced Canvas’s rollout of LLM features is just delicious timing.

“Patient, plodding, a green skin / growing over whatever winter did to us, a return / to the strange idea of continuous living despite / the mess of us” - from “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limon #poetrysky

I submitted final grades last night, but this semester was so grueling that it's going to take me a bit to mentally relax. I almost want to double-check the Canvas dashboard to make sure there isn't a ghost paper still lingering there.

Why does she look like an animatronic?

Right on time for emo summer! I’m looking forward to this album drop.

Great to see the Chronicle publishing something that's not about AI or subtly boosting AI. Here's a message I can get behind, because it's true.

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Neelix!

Happy international workers day! If you aren’t in a union, it’s never too late to join or start one! ❤️✊

My #LastFourWatched: The Atomic Cafe New York Ninja Blow Out Double Indemnity #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #movies #filmsky

You love to see it

I came across this poem on Insta a while back and thought of it after encountering yet another student paper with AI-fabricated sources. @josephfasano.bsky.social

Note to self: must delete my lectures from the university-provided video hosting platform as soon as the semester’s over.

Yep.

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

so glad universities are going all in on this

This recent push to get high school kids to fast-track college in various ways is doing them a major disservice. Academically and psychologically, these children are not being sufficiently prepared for college, let alone life.

One of my all-time favorite quotes from #StarTrek: “The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” I wonder if we'll ever get there. What's your fav Star Trek quote? #WritingCommunity www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtjz...

Unfortunately, I’ve had two medical providers record me without my consent. One lied about asking me beforehand in her AI-generated clinical notes, which contained several inaccuracies. During the appointment, she spoke exclusively in medical jargon, exactly as Bender and Muldowney describe here. 🧵

If I could banish an English phrase to the ether and never encounter it again for the rest of my life, it would be "In conclusion."

Using their hydraulic-powered tube feet, sea urchins will cover themselves with shells, rocks, algae, and other marine debris. In aquariums, they will also don tiny 3D-printed hats. Please dress sea urchins responsibly and do your part to prevent ocean pollution. #PSA #WyrdWednesday

I’m so deep into the end-of-semester funk that even though I know the semester has a definite endpoint and I won’t be grading forever, it in no way feels like it. Summer fun? Free time? I don’t know her.

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

Just that phrase “academic heartbreak” strikes something deep. It was already there for many of us, and then the AI push (combined with everything else) happened…

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #movies #Awaketooearlyagainandscrolling

Reposting 👇 since Bsky seemed to be broken this afternoon. Are the admins vibe coding, or what?

A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

My good friend and brilliant colleague Landon Frim wrote a book! I'm looking forward to reading this as soon as the semester wraps up. Knowing Landon, it's bound to be extremely well-researched, insightful, and witty.

Mansplaining to the Pope requires a pathological level of audacity.

In my Composition II class, students learn how to use the library databases from a tutorial playfully themed around the Florida Skunk Ape, a cryptid. I knew a student was using an LLM to generate her final paper’s topic pitch when she proposed an argument for Skunk Ape conservation.

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

Hilda does not care for the sounds coming from the washing machine. #caturday #catsky #catsofbluesky

So proud of my former student Hannah for penning this piece! “It may seem nice for FGCU to offer a reduced-cost option for its employees amid the rising cost of living across America, but to me, it seems dystopian for faculty to be forced to live in company-owned housing to afford a place to live.”

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Me to student: “Enjoy these last few weeks of the semester! Student: “I’m not. I’m not going to enjoy them. They’re going to be really bad.” Me: “I know. I think that’s just a thing people say. I hope you sleep enough?” Student: “Yeah, me too.”

The Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book contains roughly 94 riddles, which were likely recited as a form of oral entertainment. Most of them are religious. But some of their answers are common objects, some are sexual, and some, like riddle 25, are both! #WyrdWednesday

I hope folks read this post with a great deal of skepticism and the understanding that AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" and relentless AI inevitability nonsense apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

Share a GIF from a TV series.

Needs more consummate V’s, but they can work on it. Millennial Lego builders, please vote!🙏

Until the universal cat distribution system blesses me again, I’m going to need to see pictures of everyone’s kitties. #caturday

Hell yes. This is the alternative to Harry Potter we need right now.