Rows of classroom seats facing the front of the room.

In spite of my rage, I'm still just a sage on a stage

After seeing 12-packs of this priced at $13.99 earlier today at the grocery store - I'll have to pass.

Letter writer who describes himself as "Libertarian I guess" because he's a centrist is hilarious

I am seeing job ads for professors to work in AI departments and programs. They are currently adding "AI Literacy" requirements and I have never seen curriculum change happen so fast. This feels unprecedented.

I ack in 1995, I wonder if academia embraced the Internet as swiftly and strongly as it has #genai. Were departments of the Internet started back then? Was there a rush to start Internet literacy requirements?

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

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A red leaf tinged with yellow lies on gray pavement with angled lines.

A leaf hanging out on campus. #leafytheanswerwewantedwasleafy #autumnleaves #naturephotograhy

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

I'm super excited to be returning to my old program, and a tiny bit nervous, tbh. But there's a lot of resources and support. #Purduerhetoricandcomp

I'll be splitting time between CHI and W Lafayette. It's about a 2 hour drive one way, plus a time zone. (For those of you keeping track, my previous commute wound up being about 1.5 hours one way.)

(For everyone under the age of 80, that was a TV show where a HS teacher returned to his old HS to teach. Hilarity ensued)

I am happy to report I will be teaching at Purdue as a full-time Lecturer for the Professional Writing program starting this fall. That's where I earned my PhD in rhetoric. So, a little like "Welcome Back, Kotter."

The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

Reminder that AI harms marginalized communities!

This whole thread - yes. I am so concerned about generative AI and am alarmed at how it's being crammed down our digital throats.

Yes! All 5" squares in different prints.

Six larger quilt squares with pieced frames - purple, cream, grey, black, and yellow.

Close up of quilt borders from left to right - pieced purple leaf, purple and black, and grey leaf prints; cream tonal; hydrangea and leaf print; black with leaf outlines; "cheater quilt" print with squares of various bird silhouettes; another black with leaf outlines.

And finishing up this quilt made of fabric from the " Prospect Park" collection by Kitty Yoshida. #quiltsky

A simple quilt composed of 5" squares 12 by 12, in a wide variety of theme prints, made for a child to play "I Spy" with. Quilt is bound with yellow fabric.

Finished this Eye-Spy quilt for my nephew recently. #quiltsky

We don't need more data centers, this addiction to computer solutionism is psychotic and does not work. It literally makes every problem we face dramatically worse.

Really misread the embroidery pattern's source. It's Needles 'N Hoops! 😳

The 1980s seemed to be a time when fashion from other periods came back, makes sense typefaces designed then might harken back to earlier decades.

Love this, thank you! Typefaces are fascinating to me!

Before opening the frame, I guestimated this came from the 1980s. Just a hunch. On to see if I can find the pattern!

Opened back of vintage piece of framed embroidery. Shows damage from cellophane tape to the fabric and the cardboard backing the embroidery.

I'm pausing this project. I have archival framing tape but no archival cardboard to wrap the embroidery in. Leaving it in the frame, I'll see if the piece needs to be washed. Hope it won't. You can see damage to the fabric from the cellophane tape used in the original framing.

The back of a custom framed piece of vintage embroidery. The paper back of the custom frame has been removed. The paper features a wavy "M" and below this M is * A * D * I * G * A * N *

The vintage embroidery was custom framed by a company called Madigan. The cross stitch itself appears to be a copyrighted design by Stitches N Loops. The typeface on the framing paper looks almost Art Deco to me, it could be a logo designed in the 30s or 40s & used up into the 50s.

Vintage cross stitch 8" x 10" in a frame. Embroidered text reads "the early bird gets his own breakfast". Image of a sleeping kitty next to a food bowl labeled "kitty" - a bird, possibly a robin, is perched on the bowl and eating the kibble contained within.

My amateur attempt at vintage embroidery preservation. Found this cute piece of vintage cross stitch in a frame that makes my hands feel dirty whenever I handle it.

Close up shot of A quilt made of four-patch and two-patch squares, lattice, and border. Patches are a fuchsia celestial (suns and moons with faces) print, fuchsia cloud print, and gold star print. Lattice and border is cream flecked with gold.

Close-up. Maybe too close! I bought the fabric online and was pleased how well the cream fabric coordinated with the prints. #quiltsky