Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Gary Oldman should have been an AMAZING Dracula

All the cool kids have given up reading entirely and are crushing it at Innovation Middle School

Why I Don't Turn On My Headlights !!

I’ve had “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls stuck in my head for at least a week. At what point do I go to the emergency room?

The Godfather Part II (This is a great joke)

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

Now that we have figured out you can smash a hamburger they should come out with other smashed foods. Hey, I smashed your soufflé for you

Hey. I invented a gadget. The bad news is it uses all the world’s water but the good news is you have to keep giving me a lot of money for it to keep working

The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.

Annie Abrams is doing some of the best commentary on ongoing efforts to make k-12 teaching increasingly rigid and unimaginative, with teachers themselves enjoined to be little more than automatons. Strong pressure to use teaching scripts — scripts that encourage children to memorize but not think.

The second and third rules of fight club are have fun and don’t get hurt

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I feel like some melodrama because the time change has affected my Sirkadian rhythms

*Yoga Instructor Voice* IN ON THE KILL TAKER by Fugazi is right there any time you need it

amazing story: my family & I were at a petting zoo & a goat escaped. instinct took over & I ran after him, caught him, & brought him back to his pen. don’t ever tell me people with PhDs are useless. I’m basically a farmer now.

“No consciousness without class consciousness” is pretty good!

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Gloria by Patti Smith

one of the many good things about having read The Magic Mountain is that now whenever I have a fever, I can talk incessantly about The Magic Mountain

Guys I still use Netscape Navigator. I just never closed the browser. I’m still in 1996! It’s amazing

OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are all laying claims to expertise in educational research. They're appealing to their own AI, data, and scale capacities to do this, and wrapping it in the language of learning and cognitive sciences. It's a big tech takeover of educational research imo 🥶

SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Martin Sheen was dismissive of me at an academic conference

Help, my Claude code instances have unionized

Took my students to Special Collections on my campus today to visit this beautiful object

never see Picard take a sip of water in all his years sitting on the bridge

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Exactly. And shout out to editors specifically.

One worked in forestry for the CCC and then got a job at a paper mill and worked his way up the organization into management and the other was an aerial reconnaissance photographer for the US Navy But I’m decidedly not rugged

I’m sorry I made a joke about the email writing toy that generates horrifying pictures of kids. I’ll try to be more considerate of your preferred workflow in the future, sir.

Too bad there's no opposition party that could relentlessly press the case against war.

Hahahahahahaha

They can't solve the problems and it makes them mad

Sociopathy

ROMANCING THE STONE, a slapstick adventure comedy in the commercial genre of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, is a simpler, more likable entertainment than RAIDERS; it doesn't leave you feeling exhausted. (1984)

This is me

Has anyone gone back to school and changed careers at 60? Please tell me your story!

One thing I really appreciate about Bob Dylan is when he decided to try to write a Bruce Springsteen song, “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” is what came out

I can’t believe Skynet is called Caude dot gov irl

Masculinity could stop crisising any time now

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

I’m so fucking angry right now. That’s all.

You know, there is a strong argument that the most meaningful form of regime change would begin at home.

It is never a “distraction” when a Republican administration fulfills the long-standing goals of Republican operatives and electeds.

There's $50 in it if a Trump voter can tell us where Iran is on the map.

Just teaching skills without an emphasis on content is surrendering to the machine even if it feels like you’re doing something.