Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime.
It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.
Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.
The opening of this post (clearly bought-and-paid-for by the corporations who are heavily invested in AI), is so ominous.
1. There are lots of opinions about AI.
2. You, though, should hold only one of those opinions. (that AI should be integrated into the classroom.)
If these are the positive examples of responsible AI use we are in deep trouble. Training students to please the AI assessed rubric. There’s no long term future for teachers in this vision.
c18 printing press
there's a reason why printing presses look so much like guillotines
Good lord this is embarrassing
raise your hand if wikipedia has higher standards than your own university
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
Powerful stuff from our students:
"AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."
Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people mentioning their surprise at discovering, after probing, how much their students resent AI in education—even if students feel obligated to use it. We really shouldn’t assume we know what they think.
This reminded me of this eminently sensible proposal from a student for a set of principles to guide *teachers’* AI use. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
I once had a grilled PB and banana at a cafe in Reno that I still think about.
"Mama, guess what? The groundhog saw its shadow and that means we'll have six more years of winter!" Yep, kiddo...sounds about right.
I like it when the best folks show up on @poetsorg.bsky.social — and they also happen to be one of our best poets in our moment.
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Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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sign at a protest that is the cover of Alex Vitale’s book, The End of Policing. an arrow points up below the cover saying “read this book”
good advice to read this book, from a rally in Boston yesterday. @alexvitale.bsky.social
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
Note to self!
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
The cover of Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam: Collected Poems, just out from Nightboat
Good mail day
[bursts into the room] [extremely elder millennial voice]
You know, Milwaukee is the only American city to have elected three socialist mayors.
Also, “Milwaukee” is from “mili wau kay,” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”
Do LA next!
The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
I can't wait to see it!
