I actually think that ONLY adjuncts and fixed-term workers should be allowed to write about the future of higher ed

I just realized that vampire weekend and the weeknd are different bands

This is maybe one of the dumbest quotes I’ve ever read

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...

I wish my students could experience an internet that wasn’t terrible in the ways today’s internet is terrible.

What would impress me - an AI strategy that puts possible labour disruption front and centre, that says "this might fuck up labour as we know it; in that event, this is how we will mitigate through *seriously* expanding the welfare state" and also "this is what we actually mean by sovereign"

Friends in British Columbia's teaching and learning sector, I believe the Canvas breach is an important moment for us to request a review of how data is handled and how risk assessment in tool selection is done. If you agree, please consider signing this open letter and please share widely:

OIPC Open Letter

To the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, (CCs to the offices of the Premier, the Minister of Citizen Services, and the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and F...

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NSCC was affected by the Houston government’s recent budget cuts, the college’s answer to the deficit from these funding losses was to cut jobs. Yesterday, myself and all my librarian colleagues found out that we were losing our jobs, that there would no longer be librarians at NSCC campuses.

Ran into this at the entrance gate to Tesco, I reacted like the Mulholland Drive diner guy when he goes back to the dumpster

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I may never sleep again

“…what happens when institutions stop valuing the cumulative work of forming vocation + jdgmnt— the kind of work that takes time? Grad students have never only been workers. Their role in academic prgms has also been one of the ways fields induct new ppl into their practical + interpretive culture”

Could This Be the Last Generation of Graduate Students?

As scientists use AI systems as a proxy for working with students, the future of scientific research itself is at stake.

datasociety.net

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In addn to the “opportunity theft,” as Sonja 🤌 calls it, I’m struck by how this prof thinks of grad students: purely as cheap labor to serve him. Zero acknwlwgmt of the ethical / intellectual responsibility or *joy* of sharing your knwledg with others, learning *from* them, supporting the next gen.

Oh my god my book has a webpage of its very own. It's almost all grown up (it is still being indexed). www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics is a book for the aspiring comics scholar interested in the unique socio-cultural and literary development of comics as an art form in Canada. It is the o...

routledge.com

I made a simple iOS shortcut that changes your lock screen wallpaper to a photo of the most recent iNatural observation in your area based on your location. It uses the public API so no sign up or set up required. routinehub.co/shortcut/253...

RoutineHub - Set wallpaper to most recent iNaturalist observation in your area

Set your wallpaper based on the most recent iNaturalist observation within 10km of your location

routinehub.co

Eby wants to be seen as a problem solver. If he really wants to earn that title on this file, he should not be pausing DRIPA, but rather implementing it. Set a schedule, get it done. If you're just offering BC Conservative Lite on the issue, people are going to vote for the real thing.

DRIPA and land claims are not the same thing. Both are separately important. Neither is the end of the world for the land and mineral rights system in the province, though it is likely true some things need to be handled differently going forward. If nothing changed, it would simply be performative.

Chisel this badly on my grave

andrea bennett (they/them)@akkabah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

really important life lesson is the lesson that sometimes you just have to do stuff in a thoroughly mediocre fashion because doing stuff in a thoroughly mediocre fashion is all that's currently possible & it's better than procrastinating or not doing it at all

“Fast Car” is not a relic of its time but tragically timeless. Combs’ cover could stay faithful because nothing in this country got better.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in...

Driving in Circles

"I remember when we were driving, driving in your car."

sarahkendzior.substack.com

All done except the tongue. It’s dumber than I couldn’t hoped and I love it. Next I’m free embroidering details and then turning it into a blanket.

Ok same??? (From the california sun newsletter which doesn’t seem to be on bluesky but is great!)

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD GOOSE (In progress but aren’t we all)

I'm running a DHSI workshop on this centering agentic approaches @lucidbard.bsky.social that is outlined here: anastasiasalter.net/DHSI_DH_AI_2...

I am going to teach in a couple of weeks an intensive course. Gonna teach plain text, files/folders, terminal, markdown, git/github, servers, basic algorithms and then at the end I'll open Claude and teach them how to use it as part of a workflow.

In intro course in our DHMA, students write their final exam together with an AI chatbot. They then deconstruct where/how the LLM got things right or wrong, reflect on it using readings from lit list. In semester 2 of yr 1, focus on it WRT digital text/image analysis & critical information literacy.

If you’re teaching DH right now, how are you thinking about your students’ relationship to generative AI? Are you ignoring it? Banning it? Discussing a policy with them first? Encouraging vibe coding? Interested to see how educators across the continuum of opinions are managing it.

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps. It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

placesjournal.org

I see my local school district is eliminating another elementary art space & my university just had their last ever BFA graduation & I have to ask what exactly is the end game of “AI is going to automate most formulaic white collar work” + “we can’t afford to teach people to create/make new things”

Have a bit of inside glimpse at SAIT, so not sure if it’s universal experience. But given how much the admin has been pushing AI, I am partly laying the blame on them for their leadership position and the environment it created.

Franklin Sayre@franklinsayre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’ve had students tell me about how some of their profs are looking up answers to student questions on ChatGPT in front of the class and they are not pleased to be paying for the experience

I'll keep yelling about it- expertise doesn't scale down! Brains are discrete units! It is much harder, and more expensive, for small institutions to run an OER program on their own. And small institutions have *so much* to contribute to Open pedagogy.

I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Campus Manitoba is closing down. More than *ever*, in a province with one big institution and a bunch of small ones, we need centralized supports for Higher Ed.

"It is now time for a federal-provincial strategy on public postsecondary education: essential infrastructure in this nation-building era." CAUT President Robin Whitaker on the hollowing out of public postsecondary education: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose? - CCPA

Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?

policyalternatives.ca

I’ve had students tell me about how some of their profs are looking up answers to student questions on ChatGPT in front of the class and they are not pleased to be paying for the experience

Joel Wood 🇨🇦@joelwwood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Talking with my nieces and nephew this past weekend who are all in university at various levels, and they were all dragging the profs that are using AI to create their lectures

if any of you want to help by sharing this or telling friends about it, that would be wonderful. because so many devs are participating it’s a beautiful collection of games featuring the theme of fictional OS. it’s inspiring to see all in one place. maybe some of you will find something you love! 💕

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

InterfaceX26 starts today! a Steam event of games featuring fake and fictional OS. "Everything is going to be ok" is part of it. interfacex.net "More than 150 developers and publishers have come together to launch InterfaceX26, a week-long Steam sale and livestream running from April 27 to May 4."