So true: “Every department is loaded full of ornery, argumentative, eccentric voices trained in different methods of research, pursuing vastly different subjects, and often battling out their differences ad nauseam. That’s the boring, ugly truth about intellectual diversity at universities.”

I got you! Can you DM me your email address?

Ai companies want to use our electricity? Ok. They can pay triple rates offset all our bills.

Ai companies want to use our water? Ok. They can subsidize infrastructure construction and maintenance.

Ai companies want to use our land? Ok. They can pay taxes high enough to fund affordable housing.

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?

the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Really wide range of price points there

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

I would pay for Google circa 2007

Very weird to ask professors to both research and teach. “Hey, introvert who communes with rocks/microbes/people who died centuries ago - could you also perform up here on stage for several hours to an audience who doesn’t want to be there? Thanks!”

a national park at Harper’s Ferry that doesn’t have information about John Brown is like … well, a national park at Harper’s Ferry that doesn’t have information about John Brown. Like why is there a park here at this point.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

Oh you know what the platitudes seem to be doing? Testing the waters of generating discourse at odds with reality, since evidently the future is one where authoritarians dictate reality, maybe with llms, in a system with no way to check the record and an audience trained not to try

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me.

His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

There is an unrelenting honesty that's needed to have a democracy, but very few folks that aren't Black folks want that type of honesty about this country.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

The word "Luddite" is not an insult in a world where refrigerators play ads

the idea that teaching material that is not reflected in The Course Description would be a problem at all, nevermind a fireable offense, is completely laughable to anyone with any experience in higher ed

can i, for once in my millennial life, live in precedented times? ffs

I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

Non stop since I voted in my first presidential election in 1976.

Are you in my head?