ProfKakie
@profkakie.bsky.social
Professor of Multimedia. Practitioner of multiple media. WRFL alum. LPFM enthusiast. Kentucky-Penn State-Clemson (NOT for football) ("Khaki" like the fabric.)
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I’m going to turn today’s #ShakespeareSunday over to Tom Stoppard:
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m going to turn today’s #ShakespeareSunday over to Tom Stoppard:
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”
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May the force be with my students
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
May the force be with my students
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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It should be a “wake-up call” for politicians still sceptical about cutting emissions, said Shamsudduha. “We’re no longer talking about limiting warming to 1.5C, we’re likely heading toward 2C above preindustrial levels, and we’re now witnessing the consequences.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It should be a “wake-up call” for politicians still sceptical about cutting emissions, said Shamsudduha. “We’re no longer talking about limiting warming to 1.5C, we’re likely heading toward 2C above preindustrial levels, and we’re now witnessing the consequences.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
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Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
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obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good
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RIP Tom Stoppard, about whom I learned much from @tcarmody.bsky.social because Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is in my all-time pantheon list of great movies kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, calle
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard, about whom I learned much from @tcarmody.bsky.social because Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is in my all-time pantheon list of great movies kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
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Golly!
THE USA'S OWN TYLER ADAMS SCORES AN ABSOLUTE WORLDIE! 🇺🇸
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Golly!
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Look I hate to put the academy — which I envy and covet — on blast, but this stuff filtered in from theory, from academics asking “why do people laugh?” and studying Aristophanes and Terence and Plautus and Juvenal and Skelton and Swift et al
I don't remember any more when we started to take, or were supposed to start taking, comedians so seriously? 20 years ago-ish? There was always reverence for Carlin, Pryor etc, but mostly within comedy world, not popular culture at large.
I wonder if Maron and WTF popularizing digging into the pain and such of so many comedians had a role here
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Look I hate to put the academy — which I envy and covet — on blast, but this stuff filtered in from theory, from academics asking “why do people laugh?” and studying Aristophanes and Terence and Plautus and Juvenal and Skelton and Swift et al
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Those were the days when there were adults in The White House interested in what was best for the country and people.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Those were the days when there were adults in The White House interested in what was best for the country and people.
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good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
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This is @thatseankeenan.bsky.social in 50 years.
I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of look Saban is going for here and I’ve settled on “hill country revenue agent”
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is @thatseankeenan.bsky.social in 50 years.
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“I’ll guarantee you this — my opinion will not change. And having been swatted didn’t convince me that the … right thing to do is to redistrict midterm. So what tactics are you going to use? There’s no leverage to change my mind. I know right from wrong.”
Indiana state Senator Greg Walker (R)
Indiana state Senator Greg Walker (R)
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“I’ll guarantee you this — my opinion will not change. And having been swatted didn’t convince me that the … right thing to do is to redistrict midterm. So what tactics are you going to use? There’s no leverage to change my mind. I know right from wrong.”
Indiana state Senator Greg Walker (R)
Indiana state Senator Greg Walker (R)
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On Northwestern administrators’ cowardly and unnecessary capitulation to the Trump administration. Truly, truly shameful.
Northwestern told its alumni, misleadingly, of “hard red lines we refused to cross: We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach. I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case."
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
On Northwestern administrators’ cowardly and unnecessary capitulation to the Trump administration. Truly, truly shameful.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
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Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
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apnews.com/article/stop...
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EDDINGTON (Aster, 2025)
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
cnb.cx
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
EDDINGTON (Aster, 2025)
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How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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ahem ... bsky.app/profile/heid...
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
ahem ... bsky.app/profile/heid...
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Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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From longtime Scene staffer Dana Kopp Franklin: Thank you to the research scientists whose work can save our lives as individuals — and might even save our species.
Hey Thanks, Research Scientists
Their work can save our lives as individuals — and might even save our species
www.nashvillescene.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
From longtime Scene staffer Dana Kopp Franklin: Thank you to the research scientists whose work can save our lives as individuals — and might even save our species.