"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

how have I called a kind of speech act an "undertaking," and only just realized that that makes the speaker "the undertaker"

“AI will exacerbate a widening divide in US #HigherEducation [so] that small numbers of elite students will have access to a more traditional, largely tech-free liberal arts education, while everyone else has a ‘degraded, soulless form of vocational training administered by AI instructors’” #GenAI

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8mo ago

Admin complicity has been kind of heartbreaking > Many universities’ administrations are embracing AI for instruction, research, and evaluation. In some cases, AI has guided decisions about which programs to cut at times of austerity in the education sector. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

Ben Munson@munson.land · 8mo ago

Had a Zoom meeting where my tax professional was using Google Gemini to look up the tax code, and I am thinking to myself, what am I paying you for?

I can't compete with this.

Coming up tomorrow! Registration open and free to attend!

Society for Disability Studies@disstudies.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join the SDS on March 10 at noon Eastern Time for a talk with E. Mara Green and Octavian Robinson. Mara will be discussing her latest book, "Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal." ASL and access copies will be provided. 1/2

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 8mo ago

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be. The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

oh word, other academics would have designed the assignment and graded it differently? wow, that changes everything

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

2026 Conference

Call for Papers: Science and Technology in the Anthropocene April 2 – 3, 2026 A conference about human experience in a world with non-biological intelligent systems and the environmental prob…

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“Why Wearing a Barrel As Pants is The New Hot Style”

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

he's right and he's right to say it

We printed the first batch of the zine today! And of course we made the cover in 13 different colors 🌈 #beingtransinphilosophy

APA member Colin Marshall coauthored this ‪@us.theconversation.com‬ piece on empathy and why it should be considered a strength. theconversation.com/empathy-can-...

Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength

Empathy affords us a more accurate understanding of others’ experiences and emotions. Just like pain, it can be hard to bear – but that’s also the source of its strength.

theconversation.com

The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections. www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...

FBI Posts Ominous Call for "Tips" on Gender Affirming Care Providers

This is an alarming escalation by the Trump administration and it's campaign of eradication of trans people. Today, the FBI tweeted a call for the public to report hospitals or clinics performing gen...

thedissident.news

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

Rick Wilson@therickwilson.bsky.social · 2y ago

These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer. Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Donald Trump said he'd abolish the Department of Education, and that's exactly what he's doing. If you send your kids to public school, Trump is sending you a clear message: he doesn’t care about you.

Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

nytimes.com

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

it is the moral duty of every person to protect as many as we possibly can from this fucking monster. anything less than the most we can do is unacceptable. whatever power you have, use it

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y ago

Politico reports this morning that Erik Prince, the war profiteer behind Blackwater, the PMC which engaged in extensive human rights violations in Iraq, is part of a group of military contractors that is asking the Trump White House to get in on the deportation game. The blood chills at the thought.

I'm giving my first lecture for the year tomorrow at this event on queer feminist translation, affect & decoloniality. Glad I can be there all day to absorb & listen & learn. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/events/2025/queer-feminist-translation-affect-and-decoloniality

Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation. For nearly 20 years, the elementary schools in this economically depressed area have produced better readers than some of the wealthiest places in the country. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

Most school districts have lots of kids who struggle with reading. This one is different.

The third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation. For nearly 20 years, 93% or more of them have scored proficient on state reading tests. In fact, the elementar...

apmreports.org

Philosophers: At least one thing in America doesn't suck. The Central APA (starting tomorrow) is looking really good. Lots of innovative sessions, a smooth online platform, and a bunch of great people involved. Please consider tuning in - several sessions are free and open to the public.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns

The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

nytimes.com

Philosophers: Please get your department to host a Watch Party for the Central APA! A great way to build community and watch live philosophy in chaotic times.

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

Skrmetti oral arguments live thread. First question is from Justice Thomas asks why it's not an age based classification rather than sex based classification.