“The university cannot credibly claim that it lacks the resources to sustain academic programs & faculty positions while simultaneously paying over a million dollars to a failed chancellor. This payout exposes the administration’s financial crisis narrative as a matter of priorities, not necessity.”

👀 “If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”

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This is excellent.

point #2 is important, and was not immediately apparent in the original posts.

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I am looking forward to voting for this Representative's challenger in the primaries. She has been a real disappointment.

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

I went from “I guess I will always stay in a Hilton from now on” to “I will never stay at a Hilton again” so freaking fast.

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Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)

if you host a podcast, ben bowler is feeding it to AI, stripping it of ads, and profiting from it. i spent my morning submitting DMCA takedown requests and getting a cease and desist request because how fucking dare you profit from our IP when we don't even make any money from it???

I don't want this! Nobody wants this! Everyone wants to explore and appreciate the amazing wonders of our shared planet! Why tf can't we simply NOT BE LIKE THIS?

to be clear about this: people should do AI research if they want to! that's fine! the issue here is that this is a HUMAN SUBJECTS experiment where data associated with a subject has been pre-analyzed, without their consent. that's called 'harm'

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

I got back to practicing yoga a bit last year, and while I got stronger in some ways my balancing poses remain ASS and I suspect I'm gonna continue to feel unbalanced all this year for Reasons and I'm gonna keep trying to do yoga because it's a thing I can do.

fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's really so disappointing that Alison from Ask A Manager became a vocal Zionist bc her column was really good. but I haven't looked at it since she told anyone who doesn't support Israel to "never read here again" lol. okay! will do!

Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.

The pitch goes like this: “If you let us follow you around all day we will surface insights about your life that you would not be able to recognize for yourself.” In short: no. Longer version: Hell no. Extended version: read luxury surveillance when it comes out 🤷🏿‍♂️

If any media outlets want to discuss the changes to the childhood vaccination schedule posted by HHS my DMs are open and I have opinions. Thomas A. Nguyen, DO Children's Physicians, Inc Associate Professor of Pediatrics OU-HCOM www.hhs.gov/childhood-im...

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

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Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, offices felt like relics of the past. Now, companies are enforcing return-to-office mandates that don’t seem to make sense for employer or employee—at least on the surface. Writer Kathy Chow investigates: thewalrus.ca/return-to-office...

Yeah, people shaming Americans for not leaving America are jerks. I left America under pretty much the easiest circumstances for a non-rich American, to one of the easiest countries to move to, and it was *still* a slog. Stop it already.

Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!

Pulling no punches in the syllabus. I am so tired.

🧵I'd love to get some opinions on ethical STT models (Speech To Text) for transcribing audio. As part of the Politechs project, we're trying to build an ethical podcast production stack, and one piece of which is machine transcription producing a rough transcript which a person can clean up.

If anyone needs a social scientist and UX researcher who specializes in AI, trust, and complex systems, I’m very available and ready to jump in. Currently looking for my next role. DM here or email drjuliecarpenter@gmail.

I made my calls today. Left voice mails (only option offered me) for my R Senators and got to speak to a lovely staffer for my Dem. Representative.

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I appreciate Cameron's whole thread here on student use of genAI. I really wish more folks would listen to what teachers and college profs are witnessing and take it seriously.

This is great. I should re-read this novel this year.

my friends who are Carolina Panthers fans are happy about them making it (against all odds) to the playoffs but I'd like to point out from the depth of my late father's Saints fandom that Panthers owe it to the Saints losing their own game. Who Dat my friends, Who Dat.

Yesterday was the deadline to provide Congress with a full explanation of the Epstein Files redactions... The DOJ failed to comply with the law, again.

This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

Indy and I are going to have grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner and watch the Spinal Tap sequel for this our last evening of our Winter Break. I'm pleased with these plans.

Dear Non Americans. I'm so glad to hear this. I assume you've taken on full responsibility and accountability for the many crimes your nation has committed. PERSONALLY. No? Oh, that wasn't you? Oh, you support your country being accountable and reparations for such, but not YOU PERSONALLY. Oh.

People who tell librarians how to do their jobs always want libraries to be silent places that charge fines and never throw books away. No grace, no openness, no change. You're just describing a graveyard

NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor

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It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision. It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.