Penny P
@mstmompj.bsky.social
College writing professor, wife, mom to 4 kids; loves reading, watching MST3K, listening to RUSH and PT/SW, and other nerdy stuff.
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Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton on Monday imposed restrictions on how faculty discuss race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms and introduced a new course content approval process.
Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching
Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.
www.texastribune.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton on Monday imposed restrictions on how faculty discuss race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms and introduced a new course content approval process.
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how nice for him
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
how nice for him
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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1893: “They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge that Carried Them and their Fathers Over.”
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
1893: “They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge that Carried Them and their Fathers Over.”
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The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
AAUP @ Univ. of Houston Opposes Campus Censorship
CONTACT: Daniel Morales, JD, President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Chapter at the University of Houston, [email protected]
aaup-texas.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Trump Administration’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Tell President Jim Davis and the Board of Regents to reject the compact and protect UT Austin’s independence from the federal government. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The Trump Administration’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty to tell President Jim Davis and the Board of Regents to reject ...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Trump Administration’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Tell President Jim Davis and the Board of Regents to reject the compact and protect UT Austin’s independence from the federal government. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
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Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear:
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear:
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
"Across the 6 reviews, GPT-4o generated 176 citations; 35 (19.9%) were fabricated. Among the 141 real citations, 64 (45.4%) contained errors, most frequently incorrect or invalid digital object identifiers."
Influence of Topic Familiarity and Prompt Specificity on Citation Fabrication in Mental Health Research Using Large Language Models: Experimental Study
Background: Mental health researchers are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to improve efficiency, yet these tools can generate fabricated but plausible-sounding content (hallucinations)...
mental.jmir.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Across the 6 reviews, GPT-4o generated 176 citations; 35 (19.9%) were fabricated. Among the 141 real citations, 64 (45.4%) contained errors, most frequently incorrect or invalid digital object identifiers."
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First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
This sounds a like a great topic for an urbanist YouTube video.
In Texas, these booming housing developments come with hidden costs
Municipal utility districts are sold as a way to build cheap homes quickly and efficiently. But homeowners are often saddled with high property tax bills.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This sounds a like a great topic for an urbanist YouTube video.
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TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
It sounds like the guy who runs Common Crawl is both an unrepentant intellectual property thief and an utter jerk.
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It sounds like the guy who runs Common Crawl is both an unrepentant intellectual property thief and an utter jerk.
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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
"But on FM 1960, deep in the heart of purple suburbia, we didn’t see or hear a hint of hatred for this great country.
We saw patriots waving American flags. We saw our elders out in the heat. And their message was clear: Now is the time to speak up for the Constitution of the United States."
We saw patriots waving American flags. We saw our elders out in the heat. And their message was clear: Now is the time to speak up for the Constitution of the United States."
Friends, I break my anonymity only to you.
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Do Houston No Kings protesters 'hate America'? What they said. | Editorial
More than 1,000 No Kings protesters showed up in Cypress, Texas. We asked them if they 'hate America,' as House Speaker Mike Johnson claims? The flag-waiving patriots gave us a resounding 'no.'
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"But on FM 1960, deep in the heart of purple suburbia, we didn’t see or hear a hint of hatred for this great country.
We saw patriots waving American flags. We saw our elders out in the heat. And their message was clear: Now is the time to speak up for the Constitution of the United States."
We saw patriots waving American flags. We saw our elders out in the heat. And their message was clear: Now is the time to speak up for the Constitution of the United States."
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Happy Saturday, #RushFamily! On this day of protest around the world, today's #Rush Song of the Day is relevant to me. Enjoy!
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Rush - A Farewell To Kings
YouTube video by RushVEVO
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October 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Saturday, #RushFamily! On this day of protest around the world, today's #Rush Song of the Day is relevant to me. Enjoy!
youtu.be/eV-5iNu6Sd8?...
youtu.be/eV-5iNu6Sd8?...
No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.
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When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”