higher ed national press seems not yet picking this up? anyone get updated admin advisories?

Screenshot of article which reads: The challenge of creating a “higher ed NATO,” Baker said, is that it needs to represent such a wide range of institutions. “We need to think from a broader perspective than the Columbias and Michigans of the world,” she said. “How do we create a coalition that works for the good of community colleges and … highly resourced research universities?” Though the discussion was short on concrete answers, it placed the current moment in historical context. Bollinger said universities were caught “flat-footed” by Trump’s relentless assault on higher ed; Baker said she wasn’t surprised, given her prior experience in Texas, where the Legislature sought to control university operations in an all-out effort to win federal research funding. “A lot of the authoritarian policies that we are seeing nationally have actually been tested in states previously,” she said.

I want every conversation about US higher education to include open access institutions like community colleges and regional public universities. We should also find ways to learn from our "laboratories of democracy."

“Recent evidence suggests that [insert university name]’s upper administration sees its own faculty as a problem that needs to be solved.”

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

This is an excellent pedagogical move. I also ask students to tell me what they changed and why for each draft they produce and it's a great way to identify learning. Metacognition for the win.

If a college education did nothing but prevent you from ever acting like you were 100% sure about something ever again, & made you feel like you always needed to learn more & question your assumptions, it would be the best education money could buy, & worth the government providing it free to all.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

We were constantly told that students objecting to bigots on campus was the greatest threat to free speech and now those same people have instituted a ideological minder program on college campuses that would make the Soviets blush.

The reading is in the writing.

The writing is in the revising.

this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

I am a highly educated and technically proficient person, but passkeys are the first new ubiquitous web technology that regularly make me think I am just a stupid big baby man

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at record highs → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich.

How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

YES

Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Serial Failure Sal Khan Wants to Take Over Higher Education And anyone who cares about human-centered education should hope he fails.

Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead Regarding Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s epic profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker.

One thing to know about my late friend Aaron Swartz is, like Joni Mitchell, he never lied. So it's notable that, as @gruber.foo notes, Aaron described Sam Altman as a sociopath. daringfireball.net/2026/04/when...

The education of Sal Khan and the limits of his chatbot Khan Academy’s founder says its AI chatbot was a “non-event” for most students.

Breaking: Sal Khan, an MIT engineer and Harvard MBA who has no background in education, nor much curiosity about it, still knows next to nothing about the industry he perpetually fails to disrupt.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

generation lead never fails

Rep. Swalwell needs to drop out of the CA gov race and be arrested.

✨✨meritocracy in action✨✨

Swalwell's endorsers are fleeing (Gallego, Gomez, CTA) and I don't expect him to get much grace. CA Dems were already frustrated that no one would quit the gov race. Swalwell jumped in fairly late (after Porter's gaffe) with this sword of Damocles hanging over him

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.