Oh, no! That’s terrifying. I’m so sorry. I hope you and Given find safe shelter soon. You need to rest and heal.

I’m going to subscribe to BritBox so I can see it here in May. It looks great!

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

well today fucking sucked

The word for the intended mass destruction of education in a specific place is "scholasticide".

Pretty soon they’re going to start releasing Epstein files to distract from the war

A vibrant selection of fruit on a china platter next to a plate of ham and an aqua shell-shaped salter. Background is a multicolored Easter egg patterned tablecloth.

Fruit on the Herend china chop platter I found at Goodwill for $8. My best thrift find ever.

Butter shaped like a lamb on a small Portmeirion dish with a decorative shell-handled spreader.

Happy Easter 🐑

Two bright yellow blooms from a trout lily plant.

The trout lilies are early this year.

Leafless Meyer lemon tree with blooms and two small, unripe lemons on my back porch, covered with raindrops.

The Meyer lemon is struggling. It dropped every leaf this winter and then put forth a crazy display of blossoms, which is a precursor to death. The two lemons are from last summer; they usually ripen in time to be used in my Easter bread, but these two are still green. Hoping for a resurrection.

Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

Virginia bluebells in bloom.

The spring ephemerals are here. It was a long, difficult winter, but spring feels tenuous. Flowers help.

Serviceberry blooms against the green water of the White Park reservoir.

Who profits from the university working at destroying its purpose, especially in fields like the humanities and social sciences. "Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat.' (New Rep.)"

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

rueing the day I will have to explain to my daughter that, once upon a time before mobile phones, you simply had to agree to meet someone somewhere and then actually be in the place you agreed at the time you said you'd be there, and people actually made this work

Yes

Screenshot depicts the "Ebook Central Research Assistant. This Ai-powered feature can help you with time-consuming research tasks."

F*&G^&* ProQuest

Oh, wow! I would try it.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.

As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Ecocide often walks hand in hand with genocide. Make the land uninhabitable, unrecognisable, impossible to tend and nurture... that is part and parcel of destroying a people and culture.

everything being done now was test run by Republicans on the Humanities for decades and many of our STEM colleagues were silent

The old moon in the new moon’s arms.

Earthshine for the equinox.

Thank you!

Crescent moon above the trees

On this day last year we found out that my dad needed hospice and likely had 3 months to live. He died 133 days later. I’m back in TX helping my mom clear out his things and do general household stuff, and it’s still unreal that he’s gone.

Long tailed grackles scavenging popcorn

I’m Leonard Bast. Different novel, but yes, Leonard. I will die under a bookshelf but my son will inherit suburbia.

My sister is Aunt Charlotte from A Room with a View. Sophie is Lucy Honeychurch. We’re all just living in EM Forster’s world.