Yes, I judge the shit out of people who embrace LLMs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-Workers

As artificial intelligence becomes ingrained in daily life, disagreements over the technology are increasingly becoming disagreements over values.

bloomberg.com

What a fucking travesty. The signalling in "consolidating" a truly academic institution that runs at a fraction of a fraction of the the cost of whatever shinny AI initiative Harvard is clamming on to.

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I figured some folks might be interested in seeing this, as Europe deals with record-breaking heats year after year. In 1873, Camille Flammarion published an atmospheric science book geared toward a general audience. In it, he included a table indicating average temperatures in Paris since 1800.

I figured some folks might be interested in seeing this, as Europe deals with record-breaking heats year after year. In 1873, Camille Flammarion published an atmospheric science book geared toward a general audience. In it, he included a table indicating average temperatures in Paris since 1800.

Ferguson is really something else. Amazing to read a critique that claims AI is playing a key role in the rising tide of Holocaust denial and antisemitism that doesn't even address the entanglement between this technology and right-wingers.... niallferguson.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Death of History

The tools that once exposed and debunked Holocaust denial are powerless against AI and the algorithm. Is there a remedy?

niallferguson.substack.com

Unintentional accent mirroring is positively correlated with higher levels of empathy, by the way

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

According to Gallup 37% of Americans are creationist purists who believe God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years, so I guess we need to start making some changes to the composition of biology departments!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

shutting down academic programs is virtually never about the quality of those programs and often it’s not really even about their actual student numbers or “appeal” very little management policy towards the humanities is specifically “about” research or teaching in the humanities at all, in fact

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 2w ago

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

trying to cut while trying to add; aiming to restructure, but only so much; moving between three languages and five archives. Is it good or is it crap? But I bet AI could do all of this for me, right?

Whenever I'm feeling down I open up have a folder on my computer that has absurd screenshots that make me LOL. Consistently, the ones that make me laugh the most are screenshots of inanities uttered at Davos by dunces and rogues who are taken as oracles. Truly amazing stuff.

Few things more revealing of their inner rot than Trump and Infantino claiming to the Cup to ensure they get to hand it off. You're handing out the trophy and everyone hates you. You're losers no matter what.

Um. No VAR for that offside call? Can we all just assume the ref will give 10 minutes of extra time?

not beating the Federação Internacional de Favorecimento à Argentina allegations

Oh no. Spain scored. Foul, of course.

This is incredibly embarrassing by Argentina, and yet they may still win.

Really appreciate how they completely marginalized Coldplay. The one ethical thing FIFA has done.

Ronaldinho, as always, smiling as if he's the life of party (he most likely is). Ronaldão, as as always, smiling as if he's holding in a humongous dump (he most likely is). Madonna is just there, like an extra.

How long must he sing Happy? Pharrell time

Pharrell Williams had to sing Happy so many times that it finally suck the life out of him.

The boxing announcers are even more embarrassing.

Since when does ishowspeed sing? An amazing culmination on neoliberal blandness.

Mourning the fact that the bulk of photos and drafts from my dissertation/first book have disappeared from the cloud. Thought they were safe, but apparently I messed up the backup. Lucky to have published quite a bit from that repository, but still had some things in mind. Hélas...

Aaah... England vs. Argentina—a match where ethically you can only root for 22 simultaneous and unusually well-placed lightning strikes.

Bro who hasn't made a decent movie since the 70s has thoughts about the future of film-making.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Spot the difference.

LinkedIn is truly a hellscape

Aaah... England vs. Argentina—a match where ethically you can only root for 22 simultaneous and unusually well-placed lightning strikes.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.