I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

A view from the college teaching trenches coping with AI. Writing loses while tech readiness sees no gains. A thread

Rifat Salam@profsalam.bsky.social · last yr.

I am a coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and a sociologist teaching at a community college in NYC. The stories I’m hearing from faculty about students’ AI use, or rather, their inability and unwillingness to do assignments without AI is blowing my mind. 1/x

👉 DeepSeek may well have broken OpenAI’s Terms of Service and distilled their intellectually property without permission 👉 OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers. 👉 Karma is a bitch.

My physical therapist: Hold your arms out and then bend them at a 90-degree angle. Me: Like Cornholio? My pt: Yes.

I Didn’t Know That “Democracy Dies In Darkness” Was An Instruction To The Editorial Staff

I Didn't Know That "Democracy Dies In Darkness" Was An Instruction To The Editorial Staff - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Washington Post declines to endorse a presidential candidate. Statement from the publisher: William Lewis is publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post. The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not […]

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,326,263!