I'm really disappointed to learn, via the minutes of the latest Faculty Senate meeting, that my university is planning to purchase an enterprise-level license for some "AI" model. I can think of so many things that money would be better spent on that would actually serve our students' learning.

The irony of this news being followed by a nudge to invest in stocks selected by “advanced AI.” Nothing to see here!

Kinda wondering if the steam boxes release and are popular enough, if that would help popularize linux use/releases a bit more after how rancid Microsoft/windows is these days

I’m amused by the fact that US bishops apparently have a TikTok account, but also, go off, bishops.

academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t... My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.

Folks with an LG TV may want to forgo the latest software update, which will install an “AI Concierge and AI Chatbot” to collect more of your data and tell you what to watch. 🙄

Welcome back, Rosalia. This is the follow-up to El Mal Querer I wanted. (I could not get into Motomami.) #musicsky

Before today, my understanding of a "rat king" was based on this guy, and I think life was a little better then. Look it up in Wikipedia at your own risk. #WyrdWednesday

It is 55 degrees in SW Florida, which means I am cranking up my car’s seat warmers to maximum like I’m trying to bake cakes on them.

I’ve looked several times for a way to turn off Adobe’s AI pushiness and am so glad there finally is one. Let’s keep putting the pressure on tech companies and making it clear we don’t want these features.

We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.

My conference paper "Imaginary Friend or Foe? Examining the Pitfalls of an AI Writing Partner" is finally published in the CEA Critic! In it, I tackle some of the problematic assumptions about AI and discuss why LLMs may be counterproductive for writing pedagogy. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Throwback to one morning in 2024. Roosters had nothing on this little guy. #caturday #catsky #floof

#lastfourwatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

I think about the Times now the way one might think about an ex: “Ugh, I can’t believe I used to like you.”

[Exit Clown.]

Mariah Carey getting cancelled over a really tone-deaf christmas commercial for Sephora that mocks the working class was not on my 2025 bingo card.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Is there a safe archive of Teen Vogue articles? Concerned about the erasure of their archive.

We can’t have anything nice. This is some bullshit.

Games like Spiritfarer and Stardew Valley demonstrate class consciousness because their designers understand that the desire for “cozy games” stems from the spirit-crushing grind of late-stage capitalism. In this paper, I will…

I suspect some relatives (knowing my research & stance on GenAI) are trying to troll me by sending me AI slop videos. Then they’re disappointed when I call it out as AI. But like…was I supposed to find this fake video of animals being frightened by Halloween decorations amusing?

Girl, shut the fuck up. Stop with the Tik Tok brain rot and go help people about to lose their SNAP benefits. Fucking billionaires.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

Note that I didn't have this option in my settings for the app on my android, but I was able to access it via desktop. Was able to deactivate it on all my drive accounts that way.

Happy Día de Los Muertos to everyone remembering their beloved furry and scaly family members today.

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Aw, shucks...Thanks, @miles-hentrup.bsky.social! Last night's panel on AI in the humanities demonstrated that many students are deeply disturbed by the AI invasion of higher ed. I'm proud to have helped create this space for them to share their concerns and hope administrators will start listening.

I love this model — I wonder if I could turn this into a survey where students can pinpoint themselves.

Canvas is down, and I am sympathetic to panicking students everywhere today, but I've had to send several e-mails in the last hour reminding my students that their physical textbook still works just fine.

I really wish I was better at calmly calling people out when they say inappropriate things to my face. Instead, I will walk away (flight) and then fixate on all the things I wish I’d said for the next 24-48 hours.

I think my favorite zombie movies are the totally unserious kind.

Thanks for showing up, Fort Myers! This was such a beautiful display of community and the best turnout I’ve seen so far. I caught a moment of slow traffic here, but most of the time, there was a lot of solidarity honking. #nokings

It also works as a children’s story: I do not need AI here or there. I do not need AI anywhere. I do not like AI, my friends. I do not need it, Sam-Alt-Man.

I’m reading my students’ prewriting for their next paper now, and it’s warming my little Luddite heart. They’re planning to dismantle hype claims about AI in healthcare, therapy, the environment, loneliness, you name it. My duckies are flying. 🥹

What the fuck are we doing?

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

I paired Postman's 1998 talk "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change" with this piece in my Comp. II class. And while it's possible my students are saying what they think I want to hear, they seem genuinely worried about how much their friends & family are using AI to think for them.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is embrace the fact that some things you like aren't very good and may even be trash

Ugh, I hate it here

My emotional support #floof. I don’t know what I’d do without him. #Caturday #catsky

LinkedIn has been a gross platform for a while imo, but between the AI evangelism and slop-filled profiles, it’s gotten considerably more cursed since 2022. And now this. Maybe someone who uses it more than me can comment: is LinkedIn even worth it anymore?

Are we great yet? Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

A new cafe just opened in FTM, & at first, I was impressed. It’s hands down the prettiest cafe in town and expensively furnished. Then I noticed the TV screens promoting evangelical missions to South America, and I found this on their website. What happened to the separation of church and coffee?

I got mine in #swfl at Publix, and yes, they take walk-ins. I dare you to go get upgraded with science that protects you and your community.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched