Lori Not Laura or Laurie
@lorimmiller.bsky.social
I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc.
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨
Went to yoga, and for the first time in about 2 1/2 years I can do a 3 legged dog again with the weight on my left foot! I messed up my left ankle in early 2023 and it's just now very slowly feeling like it's coming back online.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Went to yoga, and for the first time in about 2 1/2 years I can do a 3 legged dog again with the weight on my left foot! I messed up my left ankle in early 2023 and it's just now very slowly feeling like it's coming back online.
Sounds about right for me in 2025.
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Sounds about right for me in 2025.
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I lived in my car part of the time I was teaching undergrads.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I lived in my car part of the time I was teaching undergrads.
One of the backyard flickers is around again today, and I saw my first song sparrow and white-throated sparrow of the winter too. The yard is pulsating with juncos. Winter's also a great time to be a backyard birder. 🪶
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One of the backyard flickers is around again today, and I saw my first song sparrow and white-throated sparrow of the winter too. The yard is pulsating with juncos. Winter's also a great time to be a backyard birder. 🪶
Gift link: www.kentucky.com/opinion/lind...
It’s OK to say it: Paying Mark Stoops $38M not to coach is just insane
Linda Blackford: The ever-expanding money around college sports is well-established, but that doesn’t make it right.
www.kentucky.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Gift link: www.kentucky.com/opinion/lind...
Getting to the part in the turning of the year when it feels like it's already been dark for a long time and it's late but it's only really 7:15 PM.
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Getting to the part in the turning of the year when it feels like it's already been dark for a long time and it's late but it's only really 7:15 PM.
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Don't use LLMs for ANYTHING. Not your grants, not your papers. NOTHING.
You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake
You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Don't use LLMs for ANYTHING. Not your grants, not your papers. NOTHING.
You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake
You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake
For a change, I made enough mashed potatoes to have ample leftovers from Thanksgiving. Clearly the next thing I need to scale up & plan for next time is the Brussels sprouts. We ate a pound of Brussels sprouts between the two of us since 4 PM yesterday. 😳
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For a change, I made enough mashed potatoes to have ample leftovers from Thanksgiving. Clearly the next thing I need to scale up & plan for next time is the Brussels sprouts. We ate a pound of Brussels sprouts between the two of us since 4 PM yesterday. 😳
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Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
Making our traditional Thanksgiving meal: spiced cranberry compote, turkey for spouse & Bearkitten, roasted brussels sprouts, the green bean casserole, & my grandpa's mashed potatoes which involve a whole container of French onion dip whipped in. Toasted pecan pie & port for dessert. And y'all 🙂?
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Making our traditional Thanksgiving meal: spiced cranberry compote, turkey for spouse & Bearkitten, roasted brussels sprouts, the green bean casserole, & my grandpa's mashed potatoes which involve a whole container of French onion dip whipped in. Toasted pecan pie & port for dessert. And y'all 🙂?
I've made the cranberry compote & am now working on the pecan pie. I have a recipe I love (from Sheila Lukins's USA Cookbook), but I toast the pecans first. Just burned the first batch, so it's a good thing I bought extra! Also, the pie has bourbon in it instead of vanilla extract.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I've made the cranberry compote & am now working on the pecan pie. I have a recipe I love (from Sheila Lukins's USA Cookbook), but I toast the pecans first. Just burned the first batch, so it's a good thing I bought extra! Also, the pie has bourbon in it instead of vanilla extract.
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No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
Are the people of Louisiana - one of the poorest and worst performing states in the nation on every metric - going to be paying him $54 million?
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?
Now THIS is how you news dump.
Now THIS is how you news dump.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
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University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
University of Kentucky among nation’s 1st institutions to partner with Microsoft on responsible AI innovation
The University of Kentucky and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Comm...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
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You can tell it's an AI recipe if the personal backstory is really insipid
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 5:25 PM
You can tell it's an AI recipe if the personal backstory is really insipid
We rented a decrepit Edwardian house from spouse's employer the first year we lived in KY. Drove by today for the first time in forever; it's now a luxury Airbnb with a pickleball court. Spent a while gawking at the interior pics and remembering when we'd hear squirrels in the walls & other horrors.
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
We rented a decrepit Edwardian house from spouse's employer the first year we lived in KY. Drove by today for the first time in forever; it's now a luxury Airbnb with a pickleball court. Spent a while gawking at the interior pics and remembering when we'd hear squirrels in the walls & other horrors.
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We got 1.45" of rain yesterday and into the early morning. We were greeted with this ethereal cloud cover upon waking today! #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We got 1.45" of rain yesterday and into the early morning. We were greeted with this ethereal cloud cover upon waking today! #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
Most of the time when I see a drab-backed bird from a distance hopping around in our yard, it's something like a robin. Today, however, it was a female flicker! And then another female flicker showed up & they chased each other round a tree! Teeny moment of happiness on a gray November day.
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Most of the time when I see a drab-backed bird from a distance hopping around in our yard, it's something like a robin. Today, however, it was a female flicker! And then another female flicker showed up & they chased each other round a tree! Teeny moment of happiness on a gray November day.
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
I chanced upon r/cheese and have learned that fancy cheese in a can is a Whole Thing? Cougar Gold cheese from Washington State University? I'm sort of intrigued.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I chanced upon r/cheese and have learned that fancy cheese in a can is a Whole Thing? Cougar Gold cheese from Washington State University? I'm sort of intrigued.
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Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
Opposite of my Mom in so many ways (e.g., uh, geopolitical worldview) but alike in some other weird ones. We both brush our teeth in one bathroom but do hair/any makeup in a different one in the house. What is time, even?
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Opposite of my Mom in so many ways (e.g., uh, geopolitical worldview) but alike in some other weird ones. We both brush our teeth in one bathroom but do hair/any makeup in a different one in the house. What is time, even?
I have the day off for Veterans Day, and my to-do list is approximately 30 items long.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I have the day off for Veterans Day, and my to-do list is approximately 30 items long.
Got stranded at the Atlanta airport last night & was lucky enough to secure a hotel. Tried to explain to the cab driver who took me to the hotel what the Democrats were fighting for/holding out for (ACA subsidies). I wonder if he is thinking tonight that what he was hearing from me was crazy talk.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Got stranded at the Atlanta airport last night & was lucky enough to secure a hotel. Tried to explain to the cab driver who took me to the hotel what the Democrats were fighting for/holding out for (ACA subsidies). I wonder if he is thinking tonight that what he was hearing from me was crazy talk.