This is such a daunting task. It’s really helpful to see your process and how you’ve organized it into chunks that seem manageable.

Video DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to identify massive grant cuts ABC News’ Peter Charalambous reports on deposition videos that shed new light on the process DOGE staffers used to identify more than a $100M in cuts to federal grants.

abcnews.com/video/131551.... We made this happen. Please support scholarly societies.

As of April 1, UVA will be providing Google Gemini and NotebookLM to all faculty, staff, and students. This strikes me as notable especially for NotebookLM, which is a very powerful research assistant but a *lot* of AI capability for unwary students to potentially handle. +

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org welcome today’s ruling allowing video depositions to be published. "This ruling makes clear the public's stake in understanding the processes that resulted in the near-destruction of the NEH," @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Close Reading Is Not A Luxury (Vandal Live @ Emory U) with Brian Glavey, Lindsay Reckson, Christopher Spaide, Katie Kadue, Johanna Winant, Dan Sinykin, and many more.

This episode puts to bed the most ambitious bit of live podcasting I've yet attempted. I'm thrilled we were able to give a taste of this unique event to an exponentially larger audience.

Thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social, Emory & all the panelists who saw the potential.

DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH on the Internet Archive. (Until they're pulled. So download'em now.)

16 videos totaling almost 25 hours.
URL: archive.org/details/Doge...

On Weds. Mar 11 join Kiowa Hammons, Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communication Services, for an info session on the Bartz v. Anthropic case. If you've published a book in the US, you might be entitled to compensation.

Learn more/register:
https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/events/anthropic

Depositions in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit Over the NEH - YouTube As part of a lawsuit brought by the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Historical Association, two key ...

The government does not want you to watch these depositions. They are trying to make us take them down. You be the judge of why: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh

Henry Rollins standing on a stool next to his record collection.

For Henry Rollins, music is the antidote to the "tough haul" of human existence. Today, the punk icon turns 65.

Oh wow, congratulations!!!

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

I for one cannot wait to be represented by @tomperriello.bsky.social instead of the dumbass we have now

I am so sorry. A terrible loss.

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

Shutter Island

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Bad for students. Bad for instructors. Bad for universities. Good for private equity.

Faculty Senate Meeting Friday, December 12, 2025, 2 - 4pm Zoom Webinar & In-Person - Darden 120

Everyone concerned about this should attend Faculty Senate tomorrow to learn more: uvirginia.trumba.com/senate-meeti...

One Access won’t prevent you from assigning course packs, but your students will be forced to subsidize other students using $400 textbooks within Canvas, with all the surveillance and data gathering concerns that apply. It’s a huge change and there’s been very little discussion so far.

The latter will charge all undergraduate students a flat fee for course materials and may disincentivize low-cost and open access materials. Will be an important topic of discussion at FacSen tomorrow!

I think this is conflating two issues: the digital accessibility requirements that kick in April 2026 (which are frustrating and bureaucratic but serve a worthwhile purpose) and the One Access proposal for course materials being rolled out by the UVA bookstore.