Everything is so so so stupid.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“Bybee drove about two miles to a restaurant, picked up an order, and placed it in the Dot robot as it waited in the parking lot, she said. She took photos of each step to document the process, and the gig took five minutes, she said. DoorDash paid her about $5.”

1. Normally 2 and 3; currently 1 and 2 (chair load) 2. I aim for two 2-3 hours sessions but at busy times am very happy to manage 1. 3. Weekdays late morning or early afternoon, depending on my teaching schedule. Never early mornings; nights or weekends only under deadline. 1/2

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Academics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?

August as an academic

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Giving myself a headache in the archives

☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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" Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new data shows. " #English #language #literature #HigherEd #Edchat #edusky www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

Millie Schurch's article 'Paper Colonialism: Instructions and Institutions at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1770–1820', written as part of her postdoc in our ‘Early Citizen Science’ project is now published in Eighteenth-Century Studies ! muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.its.uu.se/article/993281 🧵

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today

It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.

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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Paging @nushpowell.bsky.social : “It has of late been much the fashion with writers of celebrity to choose pirates for their heroes, insomuch that many of our youth, especially of the female sex, attach an idea of romantic grandeur to the very word pirate.” (Kaleidoscope, 1830)

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network

NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.

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Someone who does not get enough credit for the “BookLab” community that has emerged: in addition to designing the Book Beetle which has been the enabling starter press for so many students and learners, including @umdbooklab.bsky.social, Josef is also a constant mentor and friend to many.

Rare Book School@rarebookschool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Printmaker, book designer, and educator @josefbeery.bsky.social has been leading printing demonstrations for Rare Book School for more than a decade—& shaping the bibliographical community for even longer. Read our latest Impact Story at rarebookschool.org/resources/2026/06/impact-story-josef-beery

Hosted by @katieailes.bsky.social, this episode of the Building Stories podcast explores how Christian Isobel Johnstone laid the foundations for today’s media industry in Edinburgh & advocated for affordable access to reliable information #C18 #C19 www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2mo ago

Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) was born #OTD, 12 June. She edited Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, famous for its liberal stance & incisive literary reviews, & wrote some of the most remarkable Scottish novels of the #Romantic era #C18 #C19 1/4 www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to...

First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread! We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on! EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2. [1/16] 📜 💙📚

I don't care what chatgpt told you, babe, I'm in my medieval mystics era 💅

This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)

Instead of cutting deals with billionaires to push "A.i." into schools, I'd suggest pushing government to TAX billionaires to increase teacher pay and reduce class sizes.

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social

The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's “thought leadership” content mill

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Canvas is down, ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee of a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an' thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming, merciless drink!! then, lad, ye say might say with some authority that can (1/135)

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Real “Letterpress is my Passion” energy here.

Jeff Nichols@backwardsriver.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Just want to be clear that when RFK Jr. said in the hearing today that he is “overhauling” the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, it is because this administration wants to reduce the number of services that health insurance companies are required to cover.