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rhetorician studying terrible things, but probably not the ones you're thinking of. designer. writer. etc.
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Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.
This man wakes up every day asking "what ignorant bullshit can I say today to make everyone hate me, a thing that is clearly my fetish?"
I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.
Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
this post
This is so important. We can't just allow frankly evil technologies to dominate us unchecked. The party should be over for Silicon Valley but which countries have the guts to actually pull the plug or regulate them into the insignificance they should be?
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Look, there's no one solution we can impose to most of this. Students who think the work doesn't matter will find ways around it. Students who are busy and overwhelmed will seek solutions. As with everything else we don't solve, we need to think about what drives it.
Saw some stuff this morning about how the "online discussion board has been killed by AI." I mean... good? I can count the number of times an online discussion board hasn't been bullshit busy work on my hands. Not to say they can't be good - I've seen them! done them! - but mostly? Nah.
It really feels to me that a strong approach to the AI panic in education really is just... smaller classes, not treating education like an assembly line, and making lessons matter.
Not sure, but I know there's supposed to be a list coming: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
I despair. I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.
It isn’t just AI code. I’m responsible for strategy at my company and just last week the CTO booked a 1:1 with me to ensure I know how to use and am using the deep research capabilities in our partners firm’s latest LLM. It is a full-on professional expectation.
“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.” Gov JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov bsky.app/profile/govp... bsky.app/profile/govp...
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
day 2* of continuing to not give a single shit about polling for a 2028 election that may not happen if can't stop performing the dumbassery that got us here! *it's really day infinity
I can't really think of much I care about less than another article about who should run for president in 2028, if I'm honest. If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave. They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
As a test, I asked my daughter to throw it at me. It hurt. Just in case you needed to know that.
So when we said this was a big book, we meant it was a really, really big book. @punctumbooks.bsky.social
“Yet despite the encouraging numbers, Maricopa county is still on track to be the deadliest place for heat in the US after New York City, the country’s largest metropolis, where heat contributes to 525 deaths on average each year.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I can't turn this off because I'm collecting things for my AI Wall of Shame, but if you're not self-selecting a life of suffering like I am, you should do this.
"The horrors persist, but so do I"
Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...
This is why we're in a post-satire moment. Every day we're just "torment nexus? Torment nexus!"
Every day feels full of the potential to become a villain origin story.
And EVERY SINGLE PERSON WITH POWER should take 12 seconds to acknowledge where crime comes from and how it isn't fixed by a bunch of cosplaying assholes milling around.
This is what it is, along with a financial incentive to play up anecdotes for the algorithm. For a lot of Americans, their feeds both locally and nationally have turned into Best Of Liveleak, an outgrowth of a political project Musk and Congressional Republicans have wanted for years.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
I got 9 and that's fewer than the times I muttered "jesus christ" while taking this.
I’ve started trying to use “curiosity” as my index, because the genuinely curious will seek and be open to revision while the anti-curious will resist learning. It doesn’t have to do with innate capacity.
If anyone has any leads on Graphic Design/UI UX positions, PLEASE PLEASE let me or @avclub.bsky.social know! We are in desperate need, so any and all leads/opportunities are appreciated!
Congrats all -- we've created Hell
That's without even scratching the surface of Whatsapp.
Local events? Facebook groups and posts. Local news? Probably gonna find it on Facebook or Instagram because your "local" news outlets are usually owned by conglomerates more interested in political divides and scare clicks. So they feel like they can do whatever they want.
Want to buy or sell something locally? Facebook marketplace is your best bet. Need to network with school PTA or parent groups? They're probably on Facebook. Looking for a local part time job? Instagram is one of your best options these days. Need actual accurate weather information? Fb group
I encourage everyone to read all of the reporting that's coming out and see how horrifying this is, and then to think a moment about how social media companies have wormed into every aspect of our lives - ESPECIALLY Meta. thread, sorry-
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
Literally the absolute least I could do to support your AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT. I hope you have a tremendous day and all your enemies step on a lego just a little bit. (If you have any. Who would dare.)
"don't bread on me" is s tier shit
Extremely accurate emotional journey rendition
You know what I need today? To open a new book by a truly delightful human who deserves all the success this world has to offer. Teared up typing that. Here’s to you, @mossyair.bsky.social. 💛💛
I'd like to thank Past Me for saving my life and dollars by neglecting to throw away several partial bags of coffee and filling the cabinet with them. I owe Past Me an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.
we're killing all these jobs now to make room for all the new jobs! just wait! pinky promise!
every time someone says their research is apolitical, I shave a few months off my general lifespan
Fucking yikes.
“I felt an immediate knot in my stomach when I walked into a restroom at a Yellowstone lodge and forgot to take my glasses off. There’s an easy-enough fix: Make sure you take the glasses off anywhere you shouldn’t be recording.” 🙃
It's super weird* that I keep turning off Adobe's little automatic PDF/AI nonsense that keeps popping up in my browser and yet it keeps coming back. Adobe, please leave me and my browsing the fuck alone. *not actually weird, just the terrible world we made
as i wrote about yesterday, reality is a perpetual source of irritation for fascists because it undermines their claim to power
Wow
One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
This week's episode is McMahon v. New York, where the Court let the Trump gut the Department of Education without even bothering to write an opinion.
Things i didn't go into education to be (presented in order of best rhetorical impact): 1) a shill for tech company marketing hype 2) a cop surveiling my students & trying to "catch" anyone who falls for the tech co. marketing hype permeating their entire sociocultural milieu So you see my dilemma
Coming soon to everyone everywhere: 'please limit the use of your air conditioner, the AI server farm down the road needs the electricity and our grid is unstable.'
@cnn.com this piece should not be behind a paywall. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...
the computer told me what i wanted to hear. interesting 🤔
i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵
This is making me physically ill
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
It makes no sense to frame this as some sort of correction — adequate nutrition is more important for kids with health conditions, not less. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
I can't stop thinking about the TikTok practice of people commenting on videos by Palestinians in Gaza with the algospeak of trending keywords to boost the video's visibility on the FYP, "labubu dubai chocolate taylor swift squishmallow" as solidarity codewords is real cyberbleak
nearby family dollar store collapsed, midday, and killed someone while injuring a few others. not to be dramatic but it feels like this is just the future more broadly. feel insane to think that this sort of thing shouldn't happen, a century of building codes and enforcement and whatnot.
Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
I'm biased obvs but I agree - working on this book made that so clear to me and has truly changed my entire idea of what I want my career to be.
My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
that's enough reality for me today
“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”
as usual, pay attention to Cody
if you need me, I will be over here, continuing my streak of unserious behavior, but i'll look very proud, i expect.
dear game studies community: we made you something. with love, so many people punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Here’s the thing: my plan never changed. Microsoft added generative AI features, then tried to charge me more for them. Even though they clearly still had my old plan, without those features, as a hidden option it would only tell me about when I canceled. www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it...
Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month. But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.
Not being active on socials means I'm now a good 12-24 hours behind the news on anything but goddamn that Bret Stephens piece was one of the most twisted exercises I've ever seen put to page. They ruined Wordle to pay these ghouls to regularly shit directly on our faces. Hard pass.
jesus christ
This is the problem with framing every scandal as a "distraction" from kitchen table issues: The Democrats don't have a signature "kitchen table" policy they want us to talk about instead! If you don't have a good alternative just talk about the child rapist and his friendship with the president
This piece is so timely right now.
i mean, in this context, it's not "gee I wish I could be miserable." also i am already very good at being miserable; I would not wish for more.
"this guy sucks but if we give him another chance, he might magically stop sucking even though there's no reason for that to happen!"
it would be cool if we could just not be content. i do not wish to be content. and this is seen, somehow, as weird. i am the weird one. what a world.
really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
while I'm scolding ppl, this article is currently 20x more popular than our scoop from an hour ago about ICE's new facial recognition app, which is perhaps the most powerful/concern face rec database/tool widely deployed. happy to use current events to start a convo www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
Some days I'm just real tired of paying significant amounts of money every month to be allowed the small privilege of simply existing. And some days I'm fucking exhausted.
Dunno how y’all are doing these days but my anxiety is constant and painful.
and there’s even alt text, what a day, what a life
Where has this meme been my whole last decade
But if you think you can use a quick fix tool to stop students using a quick fix tool, I need you to stop and think about that FIRST. PLEASE.
Something I need to say with my whole chest: please stop trying to use AI detection tools to “catch” students using genAI. You are hypocritical at best; at worst you may be damaging that student’s relation with education forever. And they don’t work. Quit.
JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.
Word for word the same argument that got us into the Iraq War: "Look how bad this country is"
the memes "reminding Iran" about map borders are probably one of the single dumbest internet responses to a crisis I've seen and I've been here since the beginning of all things
I don't know how y'all are doing, but I'm working all day, every day and absolutely nothing changes in my quality of life except that things feel a little worse every morning! It's super great. Anyway, this is why I don't social media anymore. I have only this one feeling.
Hello to CGSA/ACÉJ folks! Thank you for coming and listening to us natter about this thing we are very, very proud of that is finally, probably, I'm pretty sure, actually releasing this year.
