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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 11h ago

I hate it here

A 22-year-old with an undergraduate degree in biology has applied for 511 jobs and counting. She was recently rejected from a role at Whole Foods after being
"interviewed" by a chatbot named Sage.

Sage is a really tough interviewer. You really need to hope you get Rosemary or Thyme to move on to the second round. (Kidding. This is a dystopian nightmare.)

alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 10h ago

I hate it here

NOT THE WHOLE FOODS INTERVIEW CHATBOT BEING NAMED SAGE

Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 11h ago

I hate it here

this could be an entrant in a horror microfiction competition

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 11h ago

I hate it here

Yeah...we really live in hell. Reddit is full of folks from multiple generations who are months or years into a job search, seeing their applications automatically kicked by AI systems, forced to attend an interview with an AI, or denied for a role just to see it back up on LinkedIn the next day

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h ago

I hate it here

What’s college in this labor market??

new roses 🌹🎸@newroses.bsky.social · 12h ago

I hate it here

We hate it here so we will go to the polls in real life. 🗳️ headcount.org

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12h ago

I hate it here

I hate it here

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Amazing! The source who gave the NYT its story about Peltola's campaign stacking the ballot is the campaign manager Peltola fired and is now suing for wrongful termination. And this ex-campaign manager tried to back out as a source just before publication! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This article is based on interviews over the past two months with 12 people who participated in or were told of the plan, or were would-be candidates that the team tried to recruit. The Times also obtained dozens of text messages that provided updates on the progress of the effort. The reporting included the extensive interviews with Ms. Rios, during which she shared details of the operation.

Last week, as The Times prepared to publish this article, Ms. Rios, who had been planning to file a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Peltola campaign, contacted The Times and said she wanted to take back her previous statements.

“As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,” Ms. Rios wrote. “I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity.”

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h ago

The AI provost is out!!! Dartmouth Provost Santiago Schnell resigns after student reporting uncovered that he used AI in published writing. What a win for students & academic integrity!!! 👏👏👏

Santiago Schnell resigns as provost of the College

An independent, faculty-led committee found that Schnell “fell short of the standards set forth” by multiple Dartmouth policies and those of the national newspapers and academic journals in which he p...

thedartmouth.com

ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · yesterday

Excited for The Griot's interview with @folger.edu's Patricia Akhimie about the exhibit "'To Hear Her Speak': Black Women and Shakespeare. " Don't miss it!!! Through May 2, 2027. thegrio.com/2026/10/27/b...

Black women have a 400-year history with Shakespeare. A new exhibit in D.C. finally tells their story

Curator Dr. Patricia Akhimie brings together 400 years of artifacts exploring how Black women have engaged with Shakespeare on their own terms.

thegrio.com

Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 15h ago

Gulliver turned 300 yesterday! If you don’t have any horses on hand to celebrate with, you could maybe just enjoy some pictures?

Gulliver at 300

An online exhibition to accompany the exhibition Gulliver at 300 in the Long Room, the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h ago

Santiago Schnell resigns as provost of the College

thedartmouth.com

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23h ago

student journalists get the goods again! the intellectual leader of the faculty should use their human brain to lead

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23h ago

In which student journalists bring down an Ivy provost for AI dishonesty. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · yesterday

I will be that 15c monk, clinging to his illuminated manuscript, railing against the printing press. I’m fine with that. We needed him to do that. Maybe he was right.

Our most elite universities are out here promoting cognitive death with this push for AI. Why let young minds atrophy?? Why encourage robot dependency??? I feel like the joker

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterday

Our most elite universities are out here promoting cognitive death with this push for AI. Why let young minds atrophy?? Why encourage robot dependency??? I feel like the joker

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · yesterday

the people who do the teaching and research should be the people who decide whether and how to award enormous corporate welfare contracts for ed tech — not the non-educator BOTs and admin suites with personal financial interests in the shaky corporations

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterday

Sarah Werner@wynkenhimself.bsky.social · yesterday

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It’s like if Herman Melville was a tree: so hot and enticing

I’m partially red/green colorblind so can somebody tell me how pretty this tree is.

I think the goal is to solve this problem AND impeach all the criminals

While by some measures, members of the middle class now earn more than those of prior generations, the Brookings Institution recently found that one-third of the American middle class still can't afford essentials. And for the rest, the high costs of child care, housing, medical care and other necessities make their incomes feel paltry. So they are trimming, reining in the lives they once expected for themselves.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is what they want to take from us!!!

I spent a week reading the first nine pages of my book out loud while walking in circles around my office, before I let it go into proofs.

Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social · 2d ago

I installed a bar in the closet door from which I now hang for 60 second intervals 3x per day and it has solved EVERYTHING about my back

Pinching myself to have this article published in Studies in Romanticism: a long-held dream! 'Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Devotion, Providence, and Prayer.' Very many thanks to Jenny Reed and Ian Newman. It's a little trailer for my book Romantic Devotion, coming soon from CUP ✨

Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Devotion, Providence, and Prayer. Abstract: This article explores the interconnections between the work of Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft. I argue that despite apparent differences between the gender politics and religious practice of the two, Wollstonecraft was strongly indebted to Barbauld, in particular to Barbauld's account of religious devotion. I focus on their reading anthologies for your women, Wollstonecraft's Female Reader (1789) and Barbauld's Female Speaker (1811), to show that Barbauld's work was a model for Wollstonecraft's account of devotional feeling, divine Providence, and the use of the voice in prayer, and that Barbauld celebrated Wollstonecraft's embodied devotional practice in her own later writings. Keywords: Devotion, Providence, Prayer, Reading, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft