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@prolegram.bsky.social
pedagogue of "how write good” at a “university” | diet soda sommelier | hater | MS/LIS student @ischoolui.bsky.social | @uuehum.bsky.social alum | substack: https://substack.com/@prolegram
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ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 AM
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
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Lolololol who could have seen this coming except literally everyone who was not in the tight little airless anti-woke circle jerk?
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Lolololol who could have seen this coming except literally everyone who was not in the tight little airless anti-woke circle jerk?
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This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Homeland Security wants to know who's anonymously posting about ICE
www.politico.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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girl who keeps a light gas leak near her bed so she posts better
January 16, 2026 at 4:45 AM
girl who keeps a light gas leak near her bed so she posts better
Scraping the scriptorium
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
Scraping the scriptorium
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster as inverted allegory
substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Scraping the scriptorium
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
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Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
January 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
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We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
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I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
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I look forward to SCOTUS explaining why Trump has legal immunity qua president, but foreign presidents like Maduro don’t
January 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I look forward to SCOTUS explaining why Trump has legal immunity qua president, but foreign presidents like Maduro don’t
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2025 was pretty good but I think if we really make an effort we can destroy the west completely in 2026
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
2025 was pretty good but I think if we really make an effort we can destroy the west completely in 2026
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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I’m late to this, but I just saw a random post that referred to gen-AI fans as “botlickers” and that was enough to make this day a little better.
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m late to this, but I just saw a random post that referred to gen-AI fans as “botlickers” and that was enough to make this day a little better.
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Compliance gets you nothing.
While many nonprofits rely on government dollars, about half of those that edited or watered down diversity, equity and inclusion language in their mission statements reported receiving no government funding.
Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statem...
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Compliance gets you nothing.
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If the broader culture around citations hadn’t already been so poisoned by predatory journals and peer review becoming unworkable, this shit would be seen for what it should be: instantly disqualifying.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If the broader culture around citations hadn’t already been so poisoned by predatory journals and peer review becoming unworkable, this shit would be seen for what it should be: instantly disqualifying.
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How climate breakdown is putting the world's food in peril - in maps and charts
->The Guardian | #climate breakdown #food | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->The Guardian | #climate breakdown #food | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
How climate breakdown is putting the world's food in peril - in maps and charts
Experts have warned that the world’s ability to feed itself is under threat from the “chaos” of extreme weather caused by climate change. Crop yields have increased enormously over the past few decades. But early warning signs have arrived as...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Several actively participated in genocide, one used nuclear weapons to obliterate innocent civilians, and a dozen owned other human beings. He is not an aberration, he is an evolution people much smarter than you have been accurately predicting for a very long time.
He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Several actively participated in genocide, one used nuclear weapons to obliterate innocent civilians, and a dozen owned other human beings. He is not an aberration, he is an evolution people much smarter than you have been accurately predicting for a very long time.
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Everything else aside, a PhD in history should have a better sense of the systems at play in the US 2008-present than to blame it on WHITE MEN NOT HAVING ENOUGH. You can't figure that out, you *shouldn't* be hired. So many great people dropped out of academia entirely, it makes me weep.
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Everything else aside, a PhD in history should have a better sense of the systems at play in the US 2008-present than to blame it on WHITE MEN NOT HAVING ENOUGH. You can't figure that out, you *shouldn't* be hired. So many great people dropped out of academia entirely, it makes me weep.
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The natsec framing on AI development is very wrong right now.
"Wouldn't it be better if we developed AI before China?"
No, because there is no we.
"Wouldn't it be better if we developed AI before China?"
No, because there is no we.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The natsec framing on AI development is very wrong right now.
"Wouldn't it be better if we developed AI before China?"
No, because there is no we.
"Wouldn't it be better if we developed AI before China?"
No, because there is no we.
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This is amazing! Print, post & distribute!
Apropos of nothing, here's some posters I made for outside my office in case anyone wants them. Text on one edited from @blacktrowel.bsky.social, the other from an Eco article (both cited of course). If you'd like the PDF files, just email me. #antifascist #AncientBluesky 🏺
February 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is amazing! Print, post & distribute!
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"In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined, the report found, with wealth inequality increasing rapidly around the world."
#wealthtax #yachts #socialism #capitalism
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
#wealthtax #yachts #socialism #capitalism
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined, the report found, with wealth inequality increasing rapidly around the world."
#wealthtax #yachts #socialism #capitalism
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
#wealthtax #yachts #socialism #capitalism
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
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Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.