Ich mache das ehrenamtlich.

Kinda serendipity that on May 4 we celebrate the defeat in battle of the Galactic Empire and May 5, the French Empire.

"The crash occurs when we find out how much consumers value AI when they have to pay the full sticker price for the unsubsidized products." Bingo @davekarpf.bsky.social

When people complain government is inefficient, slow or unwieldy I wonder what they think democracy looks like in practice.

Discussed in class today: No one ever thinks their project/idea is bad, or that their self-evaluation of it is irrational. And tough to imagine a human who would. But projects are often bad idea or irrationally evaluated so how do we reconcile that?

Who is working on a study of the rise in Pulitzers for collaborative projects.

👀‼️👏

“Glorious chaos” says Peter Drury as City tie it at 97 minutes.

Isn’t it mad how in the age of memes, newspapers have laid off almost all of the editorial cartoonists? The Columbia Missourian (below) not included:

This is beyond irresponsible. She picks and choses conspiracies: not staged but paid for by a prior president. You can absolutely report on a story like this but the delusion is the headline and lead.

Do news organizations and journalists really want to gamify the news?

We have a real blind spot for "famous or smart person from an unrelated expert domain says X" because until recently that person had to at least convince 2-3 gatekeepers at national publications that their words/thoughts/ramblings merited wider amplification.

ICYMI... thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-is-auth...

Successful innovation is: 50% Persistence, 50% With the right idea, 50% At the right time. So having a good idea and a stubborn refusal to to listen to critics and luck.

Surprised more folks don’t follow @factal.com on this platform: global breaking news without the hype, consistently faster than any other source on Bluesky. (This feed is a small subset of our full service).

What I am taking away from the legal scholars is the headline, “Supreme Court reverts to historic mean.”

L.O.L.

No. You need websites that are designed to serve human readers, quality, authenticity and trust not commodified programmatic scale. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

LOL to all the Colleges in 2026 deeply embedding AI tools into their enterprise systems who in 2027 are going to find out that tokens are a thing when the cost for them goes up 10-20x.

Why does Panera not have an Airtable plug-in to collect and manage catering orders? I am constantly selecting a meeting-based boxed lunch.

At the end of eight years of teaching, here is what I have learned: That I can no longer tell the difference between calendar years and the name of months - everything is either “week 12” or “summer.”

The plan to make America great:

ABC News just out here on socials reposting random people with questions. No reporting or context, just asking questions.

Now I get why he wants Greenland. Because of the meteor.

Great explanation of the economics of GenAI and why the honeymoon is over from @edzitron.com www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economic...

How to tell if your news organization suffers from founder’s syndrome rjionline.org/news/how-to-...

Among other things this week I am enjoying the rather exasperated tone of emails from the ICA trying to explain the process and communication style of the Cape Town hotels.

A thing learned this week: Neanderthals are named after the Neander Tal (Neander Valley) which is named for 17th century poet Joachim Neander whose original family name was classicized into Greek from the original "Neuman" which means "New Man."

Had to explain to students yesterday that some people in business are sensitive to the implied hierarchy effect of an email cc: list and it sounded dumb even when I said it.

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

Dune the giant worm.

Predicting a big topic at AEJMC next year will be adversarial defenses in the posting of course material and videos to Canvas. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Important and detailed read from @yonigre.bsky.social on the expanding risks of platform power and regulatory overreach: www.backstoryandstrategy.com/p/the-platfo...

What is the grift here? Unsolicited email this morning for a book manuscript I did not share with this person I do not know and the book published two years ago.

One potential near-future for GenAI is the economics of compute costs so dramatically degrade the utility of free models that people trust them only for horoscopes.

Every educational institution is on a mission to beclown itself on the alter of AI and your only hope is that organizational dysfunction slows the advance enough for the fever to break before its reaches your doorstep.

My passport does not renew till 2031 so unfortunately I will miss out on the new commemorative obsequition edition.

Business decisions ride a carrier wave of emotion and our job is to modulate the signal with reason.

Congratulations to the U.S. for building an educational and economic powerhouse envied around the world and then dismantling it because colleges were so bold to give lip service to non-discrimination efforts. academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Almost turned around at this point. It is 8am here and almost night.

The NY Post is garbage. Sorry to link to it. nypost.com/2026/04/26/u...

In order of best responses to this nonsense: 1) Hell no. 2) it will never be built. 3) Move the event to Dubuque. 4) Cancel the event.

Has a *single* media outlet warned its audience not to trust content posted by the President on his social media accounts about the events last night, because he posts AI-generated slop and intentional misinformation? Any of them?

The writer here is effectively calling for a police state as opposed to the current security measures that essentially worked. www.thedailybeast.com/i-slept-next...

People overhearing other people yelling things in a chaotic situation in a crowded room does not mean it happened that way.

The Amazon Health AI ad currently running during soccer has got to be a parody?

Peacock taking the long view and displaying Unix Epoch in the timestamp.

As is the NYT’s style - they call newsroom-based product managers “editors”

This is a shame. Next to R1, Neff, Gannett @mujschool.bsky.social