All together now:

i do think a simple answer is right there for us guys

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model. "When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

CFP: Cavendish and Politics. www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

“ A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. […] 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up. ” calmatters.org/economy/tech... #GenAILies

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Major yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Let’s do it!!!!!

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Oh man I just realized why I kept seeing the same AHA link shared every time I glanced at my feed today and I will say that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would be happy to read a pitch responding to that.

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

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If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Setting aside the ethical and environmental concerns of AI, I'm really offended by a bunch of elite dudes telling us our minds aren't good enough when they've had to steal everything human minds have created to create their pretend mind and it doesn't even work right!

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Let me know when someone figures out how to turn this off.

Imma tattoo this on the forehead of every single techbro, C-Suite, and university upper admin person I can hold down.

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The tech industry is so allergic to giving the humanities any credit that they've decided the one kind of writing that will continue to be important in the AI future will be called "prompt *engineering*"

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Do I happen to know anyone who will be at the Folger in the next week or two who might be willing take a photo of a single manuscript page for me?

consider joining me and @bkadams.bsky.social for a conversation about public libraries at #shax2026. if you have an idea and aren't sure whether it fits the remit of the seminar, it probably fits! but feel free to reach out to either of us with questions.

Alabamians, come join us Monday morning for a first look at the images coming out of the groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory! With commentary from local University of Alabama and Mississippi State astronomers. calendar.ua.edu/event/rubin-...

If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Come join us in Fredericton to talk about Margaret Cavendish in June 2026!

Ahhhh. Waterfire. That takes me back.

I use obstacles to learn and grow. I am this house’s cleanest pet. I am filled with love, happiness, and cat hair.

It's a @digblk.bsky.social x @scholarslab.bsky.social joint! Did the illegal closure of the NEH impact your work? Come share at the ACH conference next week. Then let's think together about what comes next.

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

Evergreen

"When I pitched this class to the English chair, I believed Harris would win and we’d spend the semester making interesting literary connections to her sober policy choices. I didn’t foresee that the canon itself would leer at our nation’s pathetic descent into discount fascism."

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

O how fall’n! how chang’d From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine Myriads though bright.

Yeah, I went there . . .

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.