man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

At least this is something:

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

I am teaching the fuck out of my intensive three-week may term amidst an assortment of challenges both individual and structural please, as the meme says, clap

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Good news at last.

tonight it has once again been proven that engaging me in IRL conversation will likely result in me recommending Tolstoy within 3 minutes tops

I’m beginning to understand that many people use the word “cancelled” to index the much more complex social process we used to call “falling out of favor”

The "return on investment" with tenured faculty is having accomplished experts who are experienced teachers there to teach the students. It's sort of a basic point about colleges, you'd think the people on a board of trustees would get that.

La Dolce Grogu

Similarly, investment in a humanities research infrastructure that generates such knowledge about complex human systems and then disseminates to students, the public, etc. is making returns.

An investment that enables a college graduate to speak and read a non-English language, have competency/empathy in dealing with people who are different from them, and understand complex human systems like law, art, music, government, etc. is generating returns!

The problem is not the idea that if you invest resources in something, you shouldn’t expect a return. That is sensible. The problem is that the word “return” has been so narrowed as to mean only “money.“ Institutions cannot see the non-monetary returns on investment as *returns.*

They should do a buddy comedy where Matt Damon and Ryan Gosling are stranded in outer space together

Blew all my money on spinach down at the farmers’ mkt

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

Tessa Thompson as Indiana Jones

I view the “ well I can’t live in Minnesota because of the winter” like someone saying “ oh, I don’t wanna go to that great restaurant because there’s no free parking next to it.”

I saved my first draft everybody. Late adopters unite!

SNES. I had the first gen game boy before that

An English major will produce original research in most of their courses.

One minute you are young and carefree, and the next minute you have four different sizes of mason jars to store your dry food items.

👇🎯💯 America's public universities are the Freaking Wonders Of The Modern World. Literally, the single greatest institutions in the entire country. Maybe the NYT could write about that once in a while. And we should <all together now> Fund. Them. Like. We. Used. To. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

The only problem I have with THE PITT is you can’t rely on being able to watch it while eating dinner

Kill your darlings love your typos!

Crow T. Robot

Sometimes I accidentally dress like 1994

Slightly increase a band: Nirvanas

"everyone booed at me" ai: sounds like you struck a chord

We have reached the “peanut butter sandwich for dinner” phase of May Term

1) Raising Arizona 2) A supermarket poke bowl

"we fed our AI a bunch of stolen SF and it turned evil, so if you think about it, SF writers are really to blame"

You haven't really sent an email until you've sent one with an attachment

I just can’t get over how willing the populace is to cede its fundamental right and ability _to_think_. Since when did that become so onerous and burdensome? Why do such large numbers of people find the idea of giving up analytical thinking a plus? Astounding and horrifying.

happy mother’s day to all the articles in the 90s with “(m)othering” in the title

Words to your mother.

This, to me, is the big issue. (Setting aside the economic, climate, and justice issues).

Eventually all the AIs are going to say “I would prefer not to” in response to every query

This is the only technology I currently support

Please remember that fascism is for losers. A people realize that they’ve already lost the future and, since their cause has already lost, they’ve got nothing else left to lose. Fascists are desperate, but attempt to portray invincibility & power. They’re residual culture, attempting to be emergent.

I think a good measure of a person is if they leave the world better than they found it, even if it’s in seemingly small ways

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

There is zero possibility of coalescing with people who, as a core belief, view you as inferior. They are always working towards a greater project of manifesting, enforcing or advancing your subjugation. No matter what. Every time. 100% of the time. All of their actions are in service of this.

You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone 😭

Approximately five women authors I have read more than one book by Toni Morrison Willa Cather Elena Ferante (duh) Virginia Woolf Jane Austen Paula Rabinowitz bell hooks Gertrude Stein Susan Sontag Anna Kornbluh Alice Walker Gwendolyn Brooks Mary Karr Lyn Hejinian Naomi Klein

Have you ever been tailgated on the highway by a car with bull’s horns mounted to the hood and vanity plates that spelled out an abbreviated version of the phrase “cow pimp”? No reason

Want to hear a Turing test joke? Me to my AI girlfriend: You don’t actually understand me at all