*looking at the burning bag of dog poop somebody left on my doorstep* Is this artificial intelligence??

Y'all I need some help. I'm trying to locate a quote, I think by Donna Haraway, that says something to the effect of "I will only critique that which implicates me". Is that familiar to anyone?

Starting a plagiarism detection software company called GANDALF.

I highly recommend taking a long winter walk, if that option is available to you and you don’t mind the cold

2025 was believable but 2026 just sounds like a made up year

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

Minnesota Cinema Canon: Fargo Drop Dead Gorgeous Purple Rain A Simple Plan A Serious Man Wisconsin Film Canon: American Movie

That part

Francis Ford Coppola (1972-1974 ONLY)

This is Spinal Tap

Instead of trying to be more successful, which has never really worked for me, I have decided to actively attempt to become less successful with the hope that this will also backfire.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Just read an author use the word “formative” in a context where they could have used the word “seminal.” Let’s normalize this

it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

Really, this grievance era is far too much.

I got kicked off a committee for repeatedly asking "why would we want that?"

I turned 47 yesterday and I might just nap all day today (as a treat)

Every pedagogical argument I see is essentially "You could use it to do something you already do but you will also have to do a lot of setup and double check everything it does."

The one thing no one has explained to me, which I also hope they never do, is why using AI is supposed to be so hard that it has to be incorporated into every single class, right now it sounds like ppl saying you need constant hard work through 4 yrs of college to be able to ask Siri to play music

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Higher Ed admins rn

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

Live Long and Pasta

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Walking and Talking

Love me a baked potato with a little butter and salt and pepper

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Public discourse on this subject has utterly failed to direct citizens' attention to the actual problem, which is that a commercial industry is assaulting education. So every week we get another thoughtless op-ed on blue books or the death of the college essay, etc etc.

Machine learning / AI has legit research applications. But at the level of writing instruction (a *core* intellectual and communicative skill) it is almost uniformly useless, counterproductive, and destructive. It drives me insane that I have to worry about this every day now as part of my job.

I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching." And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.

I would watch a movie where Jack Nicholson plays Santa Claus

And the Vampyre Lestat, who did NOT die...

could bari weiss try to bury my manuscript

and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, nor can he be said to still live, not until such time as his box is opened and the quantum entanglement is resolved

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

(whispering to date while daniel craig is onscreen) that’s Knives Out

I hindsight I probably shouldn’t have let the Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? discourse ruin all of my relationships

What if The Cure’s album from 2024 is the last truly great thing Gen X will do

I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"

I read about 350 books to prepare for my comprehensive exams as a PhD student. That is exactly what we do.

Pro Tip: First ask the AI if its one of those AIs that hallucinates and THEN ask it to summarize the thing it didn’t actually read

I asked it to summarize its summary and then I summarized that summary myself

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(In This House We Just Leave the) Knives Out 4

I mean

Are you citing things you have not read? Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model