I never thought I’d be rich as an academic but I didn’t expect that I’d become poorer every year.

Generative AI? Absolutely not under any circumstances. Ethics—theft, resource usage, the coming economic collapse caused by this shell game—aside, it is hallucinatory and inaccurate, rife with dangerous mis- and disinformation. And for me the joy of work is in the doing.

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

August as an academic

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

⚓ Why do #ports go green? @bethdesombre.bsky.social et al. examine 22 measures across 209 seaports and find voluntary action is most likely in decentralized democracies with locally affected populations, where ports may act preemptively to avoid regulation. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening

Under what conditions do organizations adopt greening measures? Economic and political factors like wealth, democracy, decentralization, and corruptio…

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I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs

Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb

Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w ago

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

New article -- Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening (this represents close to a decade of work) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening

Under what conditions do organizations adopt greening measures? Economic and political factors like wealth, democracy, decentralization, and corruptio…

authors.elsevier.com

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump has threatened Canada with tariffs for wildfire smoke, which is a good reminder that he doesn’t understand how tariffs work. Or how fire works. Or how Canada works.

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

Manuscripts with women as corresponding authors are less frequently sent out for review at Science. The ones reviewed receive less favorable reviews by both male and female reviewers.

Javi Ibarrondo@jibarrondo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Just because: I recommend this golden oldie, which I assigned to my students for many years from the year of its publication. Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 12, no. 4 (Summer 1987).

NYC Bar opposes the nomination of one of its own members, Todd Blanche, to be attorney general, saying he lacks the basic professional integrity that the position demands. A stinging and very detailed assessment. www.nycbar.org/reports/oppo...

All hail academic journals (too few of them!) that let you submit manuscripts without spending 9.5 hours making sure that you adhere to their super specific and unique citation-and-figure formatting rules, that you can meet once the thing has been accepted. Currently cursing one that doesn't.

If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

A rapist paid $5.6 million to one of his victims today. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...

E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case

A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid.

nytimes.com

Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 3w ago

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

news of a little girl in bluey pajamas witnessing ICE murder her dad happening concurrently with another discourse about "civility" towards those in power who... enable/condone/want a little girl in bluey pajamas witnessing ICE murder her dad makes you wonder what civility even means, ever meant

A judge just tossed the settlement between Trump and his IRS, saying the parties were not truly adverse to each other: www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

U.S. judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS

The settlement gave Trump sweeping tax protections and initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government ​fund to pay victims of so-called ​government weaponization that was later abandoned.

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