I deeply identify with this. I never loved marking but in the last 1.5 years I have gone from 'net positive love of teaching with some serious caveats' to ... some new normal that is barely tolerable.

AI causing ‘moral injury’ to lecturers trying to police its use, Trent University research shows

Some in writing faculty are overwhelmed by task of spotting AI in students’ work, paper says

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NEW: Republicans tried to get Missourians to effectively kill direct democracy and ballot initiatives. Last night, Missourians literally laughed in their face — rejecting the measure by a massive 80% to 20%. Here’s what to know:

Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts

Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against a measure to restrict direct democracy, while state officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.

boltsmag.org

A good one to share with students: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

nytimes.com

i am also struck by how rapidly these discussions move away from the material details of ordinary human bodies and into something more like debates about idealized and abstract Male Form vs. Female Form, which are supposed to reside somewhere in plato's realm of ideas

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

it's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't

It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets

Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

arstechnica.com

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

what could go wrong with running betting markets like this?

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

The prep isn't as bad as it used to be -- pills, not the drink -- and you'll have one, uh, busy evening and then you go in and get the greatest nap of your life and then eat a glorious meal. Get yourself checked out.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 18h ago

Well, I am of colonoscopy age now and I got my first-ever one yesterday. The prep wasn't fun but not as awful as I'd imagined. My appt was at 6am on Monday, I was home just after 7am. There's no recovery except catching up on the sleep you missed. So, if you need a nudge to get yours, this is it!

Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

Haley Stevens was out with a gracious concession and a commitment to support Abdul El-Sayed within about one hour of the AP call in her race. If she can buck up first thing in the morning, everyone else can. That’s actual political leadership.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

"From rodeo circuits to urban cowboy associations, the horse continues to play a significant role in many spaces of Black cultural preservation and memory keeping. Events like the Boley Rodeo, which is the oldest African-American rodeo in the US and takes place in a historically all-Black town..."

Beyond the Cowboy: Human-horse Solidarity Across Time | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

In January 2026, the Department of Homeland Security launched a recruitment ad campaign across social media.

nonprofitquarterly.org

#AcademicSky I'd feel more comforted by this argument if student skills and comprehension (and writing) weren't in decline.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 3h ago

Actually, Gen Z is still reading. Reading just doesn't look the way it used to. There’s print books, audiobooks, fan fiction, comics and stories on digital platforms. theconversation.com/what-the-pan...

I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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All I know is that these Seahawks better be strong winners early and often this season because we're only 90 days away from Mike Macdonald and John Schneider coming out with some crazy ass takes on "election fraud". 💀 #Seahawks #GoHawks #NFL #HardKnocks

Seahawks Seattle Seahawks

ALT: Seahawks Seattle Seahawks

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Naval Calvinball, where the boats don't matter and the Air Force writes the strategy.

Electability: the quality of one who has been elected. Look, I deal with some squishy concepts in my work but this one is even beyond me.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 16h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

I have really mixed feelings, having lived through the revelation(?) of bushels of toxic commanders, and also thoughts that the good order and discipline crowds out expectations of justice and redress. Mixed feelings is really the hallmark of now; the twisting of things. I hate it here.

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints

Soldiers can no longer make anonymous reports of discrimination, and commanders can more easily dismiss complaints they disagree with.

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There is no other road to faith; if one wishes to escape risk, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments

Sayed went up against a vastly better resourced candidate who had the backing of party leadership and who consolidated the centrist vote around her. And he still won. Hard to overstate what a watershed that is, especially in a purple state central to the election.

Good article. Progressives ought to not mistake momentum for inexorability, and its time to innoculate against "history is on our side" type naive optimism. That said anyone trying to spin this as anything but more progressive wins is overdosing on cope. unherd.com/2026/08/the-...

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

USDP speech on this in Omaha today at noon, FYI; BLUF seems to be *not* sizing up strategic forces for 2-front damage limitation ~2035 against Russia + China, but maintaining NST-ish strat forces while adding a whole bunch of theater stuff www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say

The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.

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@duffelblog.com’s Top 13 ideas for solving the Iran War “CENTCOM requested creative and unconventional proposals. It did not specify they had to be good.” 💀 www.duffelblog.com/duffel-blogs...

Duffel Blog’s Top 13 ideas for solving the Iran War

CENTCOM requested creative and unconventional proposals. It did not specify they had to be good.

duffelblog.com

adding insult to injury for Kansas Republicans — on Monday, a day before voters rejected switching to direct elections for the justices, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected a litany of abortion restrictions, including a requirement that providers give false medical information to abortion patients

"Because a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (including her right to decide whether to terminate or to continue a pregnancy) is fundamental, the Court concludes, given the overwhelming evidence adduced at trial, that the State’s rationale & legislative schemes" don't "survive constitutional scrutiny"

Applications are now open for the first Public Scholars Project writing workshop! Led by NY Times editor James Ryerson, this two-day workshop, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, is for natural scientists, social scientists, and philosophers. www.beyondtheivorytower.com/workshop

Workshop — Beyond the Ivory Tower

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The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (SSEA) is holding a mini-conference today (zoom link available). Looking forward to hear some interesting talks in a couple of hours! 🙌🌱 www.ethicsandanimals.org/mini-confere... #philsky #philosophy #animalethics

Primary polling often misses because it’s hard to guess the turnout for primary elections. Campaign internal polls overrating chances typically come from believing their candidate is special and will motivate people to the polls, while their opponent is not and will lack enthusiasm. Rarely right.

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

El-Sayed seems a fair talent. There remains a significant anti-Muslim faction. Stevens walking head first into Israel didn’t help her. The polls are screwed, but I would imagine a portion of her votes were tactical. Tight or not, the move against regular Democrats cannot be ignored.