I was watching a video of 2 guys playing "hungry hungry hippos"

And he said

"Hungry Hungry Himbos"

And that's GOTTA be a reverse harem romance novel somewhere right??

Oof. I would have died of secondhand embarrassment.

I’m sure UPenn’s teaching and learning center loves that one of their tenured faculty threw them under a bus, too. Be the change or whatever!

But he drops it because that would lead to a different kind of article (one that CHE is less likely to publish) and because it’s more fun to poke at a Q&A someone more practiced could have kept on track. “Ha ha! I shall use the metaphor again! SEE?”

Still, the author isn’t wrong that institutions like U Penn are failing their communities. But he’s not identifying the source the way a different historian might. The one line of thought that gets close is where he engages with the goals of civic education.

I’m also open to the thought I’ve only been exposed to especially dysfunctional faculty governance bodies (only one of them unionized, and the library’s rep showed up and abstained from everything because neutrality which is a whole other thread).

Anyway, to the article’s point: it would have been easy to handle a comment from one attendee, even if the moderator didn’t. It’s an issue of strategy (if that’s really the author’s problem). Picking a different metaphor that resonates with your audience is part of the gig.

But truly, anyone who believes in the idea of left-leaning faculty has never attended faculty governance meetings or read their output.

And this obviously varies. Women, POC, queer, academics usually do more service and mentoring no matter how elite the institution.

“No, you don’t have any grad students. Maybe apply for outside funding if you want to present at a conference? Here’s your 4/4 load, half-dozen committees, and infinity mentees.”

On the bright side: the service level at the library is almost certainly better. So there’s that.

“We should offer research leave to places with no budget. Don’t come back until you have some perspective,” is an idea I’m only sort of joking about.

I just. What. No, we do not have to welcome and forgive Tucker Carlson. No functioning tent would include his ideas.

No he isn’t, this is the most transparent scam.

I'm going to interpret this as a papal edict against debate perverts

The number of times I’ve yelled STOP EATING PLASTIC at my trash goblin cat.

Honest to god I would pay more for jewelry with metal recycled from a data center. This talismanic stuff is great and I appreciate and respect the expert those require.

But also. We could get it all from data centers.

Recycling and such.

Right? Put in the damn work.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

I see this in kids, they want the Gameboys I had growing up because there’s no ads or tracking.

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

Anthropic Settlement Update: 91.3 Percent of Books Claimed in Settlement - The Authors Guild Yesterday, class counsel in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit filed papers apprising the court that 440,490 of the 482,460 eligible works had been claimed—a remarkable 91.3 percent rate (the typical clas...

New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!)

Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

a spongebob squarepants cartoon character is laying on the ground in the water . Alt: spongebob squarepants is laying on the ground, crying. His sponge expands as it absorbs the tears.

“I wish someone would swaddle me.”

Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

The entire Obama era was exclusively doomsday prepper TV shows. It was the only type of programming. And we lapped it up. Now during the actual human engineered apocalypse we only get state sponsored programming about how doing DoorDash at 84 years old is a good substitute for universal healthcare.

I understand Pope fatigue (I was confirmed by a child molester) and to an extent it's a Let Them Fight situation but it's genuinely important and different that the Catholic Church, a major geopolitical actor with endless resources dating back millennia, is coming out hard against fascism this time

Oh good, I’ve moved to the “body rejects all food” phase of whatever this is, perfect for a zillion meeting day.

Why the AI backlash has turned violent And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.

Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

People have been excommunicated for less.

Grubhub push notification "Bogo McNuggets coming in hot"

New Star Wars character just dropped