Not how to articulate this, but I suspect it would be easier to convince people not to use genAI for things that don’t need it for by addressing underlying problems: wage stagnation, economic pressures from shareholders, competitive productivity via metrics — capitalism, by addressing capitalism.

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

Shockingly, the miscellaneous photos did not get sorted before making it to the archives in 2024.

My salsa, verde. My tacos, puffy. My fascist President roots for the Knicks. Spurs is six.

Luis Paez-Pumar@lpp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Christian Dior, Spurs in six

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Special Collections Librarian in possession of a some really cool books, must be in want of a class ready to dive into a wonderful collaboration.

Trinity English Department and Special Collections Collaborate to Curate Exhibition on Jane Austen

Students gain deeper understanding of texts through hands-on humanities research, participate in international anniversary celebration

trinity.edu

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Couldn’t stop laughing at husband’s all-time Spotify top song (God Bless the USA, thanks to a kid practicing for a pre-k concert). Karma got me back—mine is “Rocking on Top of the World” from the Polar Express. Being a parent who cares too much about data is rough some times.

The irony of this article being accompanied by Elsevier's "reading assistant."

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Technical infrastructure does not just persist. It needs maintenance and, crucially, people to perform that maintenance. Servers need to be updated, SSL certificates need to be renewed, domains need to be paid for.

Sharon Howard@sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

This week I ordered the wrong rare book for a class, and loaded a reel of microfilm upside down and had to reroll the entire thing by hand (while helping a student). We weren't meant to try to go on living our lives with this much impending doom.

I've been working on reading/rereading Jane Austen's works this year, and how has no one ever mentioned to me how utterly hilarious Northanger Abbey is?

Apparently this is becoming a necessary weekly PSA. If you don’t want to read, write, and think, that’s fine. But then you have no business being a scholar. Especially if you’re TT/tenured, and especially in the humanities, if you can’t be bothered to do these things, you need to get out now.

A more interesting question to me: what is the weirdest field trip your school ever took you on? In middle school, we toured the recently decommissioned Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Like walked through the whole structure maybe a year after they turned it off? Lots of Alex Mack jokes.

Eli Whitney Museum, Mark Twain House, and Nature's Classroom.

At this point, I'm fairly confident our photography prof continues to request Baltz's "San Quentin Point" portfolio for his classes because of how much I dislike it. It's photos of trash! www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

are there any works of art that have nothing like substantively wrong with them (as in they aren't like, or 'Birth of a nation' or any shit like that), that you dislike so strongly you can't get over it, despite it being fully aware that your objections are 100% aesthetic or even petty?

Sometimes I get ideas that make me wish I taught semester-long classes. Reskeeting for the morning crowd.

Colleen Hoelscher@choelsch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Football Night in America: Social History via Halftime Shows” — a syllabus.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

“Football Night in America: Social History via Halftime Shows” — a syllabus.

It is 34 degrees with a wintry mix today in Dilley.

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"

The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙

I loaned Joe Montana a screwdriver to assemble his daughter’s futon when moving her into her freshman dorm.

Blunderbolt@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

a man and a woman are talking in a baseball field and the woman says there 's no crying in baseball ..

ALT: a man and a woman are talking in a baseball field and the woman says there 's no crying in baseball ..

media.tenor.com

Dr. Syntax@drsyntax.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

vulture.com

There is absolutely nothing "intern" about this job description. And yet, they will have no shortage of applicants.

Archives Gig@archivesgig.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Worcester, MA: Paid Archival Intern, Polar Beverages

My PCP’s AI scribe charted that I have lymphoma (I don’t). Getting it fixed was such a huge hassle that I have considered just changing physicians.

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 9mo ago

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Having been forced to eat Texas bagels for almost ten years now, in no universe should they be considered a draw.

San Antonio Current@sacurrent.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The union is attempting to lure NYPD officers with — among other things — bagels.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I'm curious if others who usually travel for Thanksgiving are second guessing doing so at this point.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: Roughly 3,370 flights were delayed across the U.S. on Monday, Day 27 of the government shutdown, as more essential workers failed to show up to work www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-...

i wish LSUfreak was around to make a brian kelly GIF

Whatever you were expecting, the reality of this timeline is 1000x worse.

Alice Campos@ok-sure.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline. It’s… shocking