❤️

The terrorists are the ones without masks. They’re the ones yelling “No!” or “Stop!” or “Shame!” or blowing whistles. Sometimes they brandish cameras at federal agents. These are just some of their diabolical tactics.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Don't like this trend at all. @infinitescream.bsky.social

I lived among the Upper Midwest Lutherans for almost 20 years and every word of this is true, except I'd almost argue for under 24 hrs tbh

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Zinc chloride smoke is bad and you want to stay away from it. Here is an actual description of zinc chloride smoke and its effects.

As someone who grew up in NW WI, this person is ready to chew up steel and spit out nails. A hero for all of us.

This piece put into words my general uneasiness around the use of AI in education and how it’s problematic if a critical eye is not focused on it. The references to Fitter, Happier from Radiohead are the cherry on top, and resonate deeply in my elder millennial soul.

I just woke up and am already exhausted.

The final day

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

One of my favorite things that @zachwahls.bsky.social did was his work on Scouting for Equality. That work opened doors for many of the folks I volunteer with on a regular basis in scouting. LGBTQ+ scouts can be found in every council in every state. Zach was a big part of that.

For @darthbluesky.bsky.social when he returns…

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

My brain after the semester is over and grades are submitted.

My undergrad research adviser taught me this. He also used to send me to the library with the copy card to get papers to read. Now it’s so much easier to get papers, one shouldn’t have an excuse not to read them.

Solid thread with the facts.

Number 1 movie when you were ten is how your 2026 will go… This is a little on the nose.

This 🧵 is a nightmare. We need very strong ethical guidelines and real consequences for authors, editors and journals putting this type of slop out there.

Trans rights are human rights, in the most profound and fundamental way.

This entire weekend

My hero of 2025

It’s a great cake. Hoping my colleagues enjoy it at the department potluck tomorrow.

This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)

All of my educational training is to be in a laboratory, but the most difficult part of my job is how well I relate to the class in front of me. That takes a broad level of experiences, of which coursework in music, history, sociology, economics, foreign language, etc. helped me prepare for.

I went to the Trump Kennedy Center Honors Cursed By The Monkey’s Paw and all you got were these 1500 words of observations www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The quickest way to disenfranchise faculty is to relentlessly demand data that ends up (from our perspective) in a black hole. I’ll add that recognition of faculty is also helpful to maintain esprit de corps.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

If you can’t get a Nobel Peace Prize a store-bought FIFA one will do

Wished I lived in TN 7th not for any political reason but just to get some recompense for Wallace.

current mood

Named my fists Michaelis and Menten because my rate depends on my concentration.

Another look at road conditions across Iowa Saturday afternoon.😂

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

My plans for the impending snowocalypse.

Last sentence from the discussion: “In this sense, one might view learning through LLMs rather than traditional web search as, at times, analogous to being shown the solution to a math problem rather than trying to solve it oneself.”

I have watched this happen in my own courses over the last ~10 years. Cue @infinitescream.bsky.social.

One of the ways I started shifting my thinking on the revolution came from @sceneonradio.bsky.social's season 4: The Land That Never Has Been Yet. @chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss. Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here. sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...

Some say we shouldn't take actions we know will be met with legislative disdain. I say: do not comply in advance.

It goes even deeper than this. The vast bulk of red state agriculture is corn, soybeans or seed crops. And most of it is not for US human consumption! We export 20% of our corn, half of our soybean and seeds. The rest? Most of it becomes oil, animal feed or….ETHANOL. The subsidized fuel additive.

The bar is in hell.