Not to keep banging on about this, but we're basically seeing zero academic jobs in the humanities, with only a few term positions across multiple fields, while jobs like Chair in AI Studies go forward with high salaries because universities know they can squeeze money out before the bubble pops.
This is a call for measuring teaching effectiveness that ignores the most meaningful criteria we could use: What percentage of your faculty makes a professional wage and has a teaching load consistent with disciplinary norms? I taught college for 20 years and never achieved either.
It is weird how so many things keep getting worse and everyone is expected to keep sending emails and maintain "normal" levels of productivity.
Did I accidentally end up having the last word on a humanities panel & state my position on Ai was burn it to the ground?
I did.
I said we shouldn’t conflate answers with learning & give away what makes us human for efficiency (which isn’t). It’s all anti-human spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
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Thread that illustrates one of my mantras for humans working in a world with AI. Rather than pledging yourself to higher productivity, considering doing less that matters more.
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The specifics of this example aside, I find these articles are often written in a way that seeks to discredit the work of anyone working inside of education so to make educators even more subject to the views of those on the outside. The message is that no educator can be trusted with their own work
Sal Khan's vision for higher ed is MOOCs + TED Talks + standardized assessment with a curriculum approved by tech behemoths and management consultants. Please explain to me how this demonstrates any interest in "education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
It’s maddening, isn’t it? And even when employers keep telling us “the skills we really need are critical thinking and the ability to collaborate,” the response is still innovation and new tech tools when we should all be screaming “this is what the liberal arts are.”
Remember, his skill is in manipulation and being an ad man.
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.
You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.
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If many of us do not make time to read, regularly and in good faith, this whole charade (civilization) collapses.
-not everything needs to be a subscription
-2FA for everything means better security but more rapid decision fatigue
-regular apple pie is better than apple crumble
-burnout should qualify for medical leave
-iPods are great
-it is fine to eat ravioli plain
-more people should exfoliate in the shower
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Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
The science fiction stories that have something very bad happening on Earth while a space mission is on its way back feel a bit close for comfort.
All of Walter Benjamin’s warnings about the aestheticization of politics amidst the instant reproducibility of art seem to be coming true.
it is goofy to be old enough to remember when Gmail promised you would never have to delete emails, only to tell everyone there were storage limits unless you paid monthly for extra space in the cloud
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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This.
I was speaking with a friend of mine who also teaches first-year writing, and I think the issue is people see writing as telling me what they know, but what writing really does is explain *how* you have come to know a thing. AI can’t tell us how you have come to know something; only you can.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.
A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
“It is not that AI is taking our jobs per se, but that AI is being prioritized over many of our jobs.”
The other was a student who asked if I thought we could get back to a world where people care about art. I turned that back to the audience and asked "Who here cares about art?" Every single hand went up. Not a random sample of the population to be sure, but the question asker was also not alone.
My Feb 2026 Katz Lecture for @uofwa.uw.edu 's Simpson Center for the Humanities is now available on YouTube:
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Unfortunately, the recording doesn't include the Q&A. Two things I remember from that:
