This came today; 1928 deco-era letter press pamphlet cover for an event that used to be held at the Univ. I work for. Verified with Univ. archives & a solid provenance. Will be framed & hung in my office. Came packaged in this dutch(?) language children’s book. Historic rainbow action for my office

Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets promoted to CEO

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If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

We used to be a real country. We used to care about kerning.

LLMs can’t do math, but they are doing math in order to not do math. And sometimes when doing math to do not math they create things that can do math. Got it?

“The depictions in the media and from clinicians suggest that people are mainly experiencing delusions, and for that reason, clinicians prefer ‘AI-mediated delusions’ rather than the snappier but less accurate ‘AI psychosis’ to describe the phenomenon.”

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.

President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Oh.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

This is helpful info if you too are in search of a C-19 booster!!

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that:

a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate

b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

And!! Why is it that on Wednesday they were setting up for tailgates? There’s RV’s parked, canopies up, new flowers being planted today. The grip football has on our society will always amaze me.

#academicchatter

I gotta talk to whoever planned the layout of this campus. Why is it the football stadium is always next to/close to the fine arts building??

#academicchatter #academicsky

"smart watch" as a portable computer is pointless. the wearable computer should take up your entire forearm and fold out like a yugioh duel disk and also you can do poses with it

That’s why we created this worksheet, and why I’m organizing workshops this week, including one on facilitating people’s assemblies.

she is the icon, she is the moment 💅

one of my faculty friends said that syllabus week was our finals week and I’ve never felt so seen before in that moment

this photo is a close second tho

#academicchatter #academicsky

the man is no socialist but I will follow the guy or gal who shows themselves best made for the moment without throwing marginalized members of the coalition under the bus to do it and right now that's JB.

Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...

The building of Fort Sheridan didn't stop the industrial labor movement from taking root in Chicago. And we now have a black man forged in Chicago's labor left as mayor, leading off the Labor Day march from Haymarket Square, preparing for the inevitable attacks on our city from the oligarchy.

I’m absolutely howling lmao

Glad to see Pritzker standing up forcefully against the current tyrant in chief. Needless to say, none of this is normal, and every day it’s pushing us closer and closer to an outright shooting war.

If you’re a member of the military, remember you swore an oath to the Constitution above all else.

Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.