We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7d ago

If people knew what it takes for me to book a trip somewhere they’d be thrilled if I ever showed up for anything. I have to pre-plan by writing all the travel details out longhand Take a coffee (or stronger) Schedule time to book the travel Sit down comfortably with all details and credit cards

unheard of shit is going down in the field of contemporary national identity formation, we are all out here arguing over whether Ed Sheeran can be Irish meanwhile a North American state is joining the European Union

5 minutes till the Bluesky (official app of sports) timeline is mostly disconnected FUCKs and "go birds, I want to d*e"

The fact of the matter is that AI is language without the demands of an other subjectivity and language is a riff we can ride for a very long time: that kind of vacancy is a magnet for projecting fantasies of all kinds, hope and fear alike. We get nowhere on “AI” until we tackle that.

Emoji Caresser@lizrummy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Broke: One of the reasons gen AI needs to die is because of AI psychosis Woke: Gen AI will succeed because people are getting AI psychosis

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

It does not seem right that when Anthropic execs tweet about their research having a 10% chance of killing all humans they get a bumper IPO payout, but when I do the same thing I get a referral to the IRB for "additional training"

"create an account to continue" oh my god just fucking kill me

I still think with extreme fondness of my Pixi Plus, from the forty-five seconds during which HP manufactured phones after taking over Palm Pilot. It was perfect. Look at this thing.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 3w ago

I also think it is funny how many people miss typing on physical keyboards and every new phone tries to convince users that typing on a screen is fine. People still yearn for the BlackBerry and buttons. iPad keyboards are popular for a reason.

Crazily, this is also the strangest paid job I’ve had. Here’s a poem that references it! losangelesreview.org/brief-encoun...

Brief Encounters with Famous Men by Kimberly Andrews - The Los Angeles Review

*Because I don’t believe in memoirs and because I was never the kind of precocious young person who is the sort of person whogrows up to become a writer, having kept meticulous and idiosyncraticrecord...

losangelesreview.org

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

For those who celebrate

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Except me, I’m fighting you. Pick up the sword.

You are not the tallest person on bluesky

Dogpiling: loud, public, disruptive, bad Catpiling: quiet, private, you were sleeping and didn't even realize it was happening, good

Both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry had such a genuine enthusiasm for performing that it was impossible not to love them for it, there were things more highly and lowly regarded in their bodies of work but both of them threw themselves into everything because it was pure joy for them and that rules

I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was

"The voluptuous embodiment of empathy." God, what a glorious thing to have been.

Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · last mo.

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

It was only a matter of time

When I read posts I feel confused and unsettled but when I read a book I feel calm enjoyment. Ah well, time to read several hundred posts

Riding With Robots@ridingrobots.bsky.social · last mo.

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

guy: excuse me me internally steeling myself for some bullshit: what’s up guy, voice full of wonderment: did you know jim carrey is from canada?? i never knew that

The problem with innovation as a reader is that the perfect technology has already been invented (book) and every subsequent innovation has the defect of being Not Book.

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

Faked my whole meditation class again. I've just been keeping my face really really still. my mind has been racing the whole time. I am tortured by unrelenting thought. You can't stop me. I win! See you next week, idiots.

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

Kent Lind@camasonian.bsky.social · last mo.

We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

Not that I am suggesting you forego the computer telling you which animals are hard to see, but if you’d like to skip it, you can grab ANIMALS I NEVER SAW right here: flumepress.com/authors/anim...

Matthew Harrison@matthewharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

@kqandrews.bsky.social this is the best google AI result for a book search i have ever gotten.

Also! Not for nothing: spent time reading the comments to David’s essay this morning and like, it is NYTimes Cooking comments-section-level delightful. In case anyone needs some affirmation of human potential rn.

Barry Petchesky@barryp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

God bless the confounding dorks of the humanities. It'd be a poorer world without them. defector.com/humanists-ha...