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something something complex joke about aerodynamics of the V formation...
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"I went through partners like shit through a, well, me, I guess..."
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Ooh ooh... is the answer to the physician one "a shaman"? Or is that unfair to shamans?

This is actually a fun game. Every school bus driver needs to identify a person who has had their driver's license revoked they admire... Every optician needs to identify a naked mole rat they admire...

by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
www.alfiekohn.org
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, David R. Shumway

annakornbluh.bsky.social
Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
www.post-gazette.com
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Adrian Daub

modernlanguage.bsky.social
Higher ed drives economic growth and innovation, and it’s under attack. Read the new op-ed from @paulakrebs.bsky.social‬ and @ehayot.bsky.social‬ and tell your legislators that research, teaching, and innovation are important to you and your community. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes
We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...
www.post-gazette.com
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
He might but pretty sure the bit would have thousands proposing to you, so, even-steven.
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
I need AI glasses to tell me what your AI glasses are doing.
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millerprosser.bsky.social
The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)
AGAINST AI -
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
back up now, weirdly. Maybe Eze broke it.

by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
@poorlydrawnarsenal.com do you know if something has gone wrong with the Arsenal Catch-Up feed? Somehow it's blank for me after working for months...
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
I will say that Nelson Weiper has absolutely KILLED for me in multiple iterations of Football Manager--fully endorse this move!

Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Martin Paul Eve, Ernesto Priego , and 2 more

mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
But where are you going to get your steel, Adrian? WHERE????
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biblioracle.bsky.social
Playing around with some graphics.
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by Eric Hayot — Reposted by: James A. Benn

ehayot.bsky.social
against-a-i.com

Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Elizabeth Sharrow, South África , and 14 more

annakornbluh.bsky.social
teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
"Each of the last seasons." Not "last season," about which I would have had no complaints.

by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
This would be interesting and the kind of thing written by a smart person if it weren't simply wrong. Arsenal league points in 20-21, 61; 21-22, 69; 22-23, 84; 23-24, 89; 24-25, 74.

Unless maybe "Each of the last seasons" means something else in your language. :-)
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
What's especially frustrating (but sadly typical, in the new normal) is that the U of Chicago doing this (as with things done by Penn, Columbia, Brown) basically gives a permission structure for all other universities to follow suit.

Like you, sick to my stomach about what this means.
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Subject of my current book...going to be about 60k words tho.
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Felicity Callard, James O’Sullivan , and 1 more

mattseybold.bsky.social
Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Martin Paul Eve, Carlos Spoerhase

mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.
www.aaup.org
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Reposted by: Eric Hayot, Mauro Gatti, Michael Plaxton

lastpositivist.bsky.social
Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Arsenal also didn't score a single goal in Ligue 1 or the Bundesliga this year...
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Great and useful answer--the spending would have to then be disaggregated into support for research (= keeping the universities afloat), indirect class mobility support and citizenship pathways, medical... and then just the weapons etc. But--super useful followup--thank you.
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
Mine neither. But all this would have to be thought about against the fact that govt expenditure as a %age of GDP in the US at least is higher today than at any point since WW2 (source: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONG...). How do we put that together with the reality that you're describing?
Federal Net Outlays as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
Federal Net Outlays as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
fred.stlouisfed.org
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
This isn't just a theory, it's a clear and accurate description of (1) what has actually happened and (2) the stated intentions of those who made it happen ("drown the government in the bathtub" etc.)!
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by Eric Hayot

ehayot.bsky.social
The emotional whirlwind of responding to spammers:
A transcript of a text message exchange between me and a spammer. The spammer writes: "Beautiful day! I'm Kelly from PrideStaff, will you be receptive to new employment?" I respond: "would you be receptive to fucking off?" Kelly responds "Sure"; I respond "Great--thank you! have a good day." Kelly: "You too."
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