It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

wut

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

I declare that today is a Saturday and shall be treated as such.

That regular thing in the United States that happens when there is a snafu with your monthly prescription that keeps you out of the hospital and allows you to work everyday.

Cheesequake

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

This is the lesson of 2025

I would love to see some genuinely Weird Shit instead of the writing equivalent of face-tuned bullshit.

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Sure would be nice to highlight Lost Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, too.

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”

This is what ended the last shutdown, because it inconveniences the rich. Tick tock.

thank u Kraft mac & cheese

The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that

I learned this term yesterday and my life will never be the same.