Earning your keep actually means filling in for cost overruns in the stem majors. Your sin is in being a one time profit center that isn't maintaining the cash flow....in the face of longstanding attacks on your programs with which we admins have been complicit, right?

Out west here, we are chanting the mantra "durable skills" as the new label for what humanities give students and capitalism like a verbal talisman against the coming of the end times.

You are bursting my fantasy that if I just were faculty all this (waves around) would be easier to cope with.

Symphony intermission? Or cello naptime?

I'm in.

Part of me agrees. But part of me also thinks this may be a divergence point between publics and privates. Publics are considered among the states amenities, especially in smaller places with fewer events venue options. I'd prefer scholars for sure, though, over non academic public figures

I'm old so know the books from childhood, so def needed some context.

Might be an Asimov Foundation reference? That's the only way I can make it make sense.

Lol, and I whine about undergrad handwriting.....

I think I expected an hour and a half of YouTube. Which is about correct. I find that most things at the moment feel like fiddling while Rome burns. I keep trying to adjudicate versions of the fiddling....restorative? Obscene? Shame filled?

Exculpatory dehumanization is great. I'm just in love with that phrase. I like how it feels to say it and how it sounds. That it carries/conveys a useful meaning is a bonus.

Talking work in ways that don't feel like work is always a plus.

Not about tipping, but for years journalists were calling me about why astrology was so popular again, and I kept saying, but it isn't, is it?

Make humility a virtue (again). Why I loved teaching research methods.

And comp.sci people are also dealing with the hype, hysteria, and media/colleagues treating these things as human Otoh, funding in their world remains available and nobody is saying AI isnt important or worth funds. My two cents from outside computer science.

I've been really impressed with my faculty approaching this with some nuance - and reading the science papers to boot. And distinguishing between where it's pedagogically stupid and where it may be useful, given conversations with our computer science faculty who have relevant expertise.

I admit to fangirling about gebru, zitron, and doctorow. We are running a faculty journal club next year alongside a first year program that decided to go hardcore non AI, with paper journals and real books to avoid temptations of online journaling and built in AI summarizing for all books.

Just reread Galapagos. Can confirm that end. Not willing to revisit Hesse.....

This is making me a bit despondent.....the persistence of such resonances across literary and artistic time and space says something about human potential.....

Anne Lamott says Bird by Bird.

Reading Glacial Errata @colindickey.bsky.social today and my husband reminded me of the instability of the reference kilogram....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Proto... In case you needed further evidence that there is no certainty in the world.

Pretty sure that expression is also one I've seen on photos of you!

Caffeine can come over to my house when they're done at yours. And do some ironing.

Well that explains everything.

When we did this it did not look like that picture.....in any dimension.....

I am surviving on her book about Hope in the Dark right now.

Me as well.

10,000 people marched around in downtown SLC yesterday, occasionally chanting F@$* Mike Lee. I find this pleasant to ponder.

I'm a proud 50-something mom who feels exactly that way.

I'm in this club too....