Working on the porch and listening to someone blast Evanescence down in the courtyard. Love spring in the city.

It had been bothering me for a while, but I had been too agitated to pay attention.

Keeping Humans in the Loop How Illinois’s H.B. 1859 protects learning in the age of AI.

H.B. 1859 requires that “every course offered by an Illinois community college district . . . be taught by a credentialed human instructor.” @troy-a-swanson.bsky.social of @ccctu1600.bsky.social writes in #Academe about a legislative win on AI:

A woman holds up a quilt that has been decorated with dozens of little stitched protest signs, like “make America kind again”, “America was built by immigrants,” “The only minority destroying America are billionaires,” and “creativity is resistance.”

This is the best protest sign I’ve ever seen in my entire life. #NoKings

From @kconrad.bsky.social

The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com.

Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.

www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Do you want this shared around?

you are loved, and we will win

Good Evening, “IL-9 Congressional Primary” was a 12 month sociological study conducted by Northwestern University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Gemini: The greatest challenge you face is your own mind. Your brain is terrible and must be stopped.

Skagerock seems like a missed opportunity

Design thought of the day

A single candle burns in the forefront and a multitude of blurred lights are in the background. Text: Disability Day of Mourning March 1st.

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Today is the Disability Day of Mourning. The disability community will gather to remember disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. https://ow.ly/Y9oG50Yn6ar

#DDofM2026 Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

As a child, the library was the only space I felt like I belonged. They're magic.

My CFP experience has gotten much better since I started thinking of the talks I propose as "offerings" rather than "proposals" or "submissions".

It's never too late to learn about free software :)

Art is resistance

Maaaaaaaaybe

One of my takes on codes of conduct is that communities will eventually need to decide whether reacting to bad things after they happened is enough. Apparently paleontologists are breaking ground on that one

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

A bunch of people have sent me a screenshot of this post without any additional context. Conveniently, @esqueer.net, who is very legit, provided receipts in the thread

If someone is taking a work zoom meeting in a cafe: 1) other people should be allowed to participate and 2) they should get paid for their participation and time

Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...

When your enemies tell you not to do something, you know you are being effective. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

The New Way Colleges Are Wooing Athletes In an NIL world, university athletic departments are creating in-house studios to win recruits and donor dollars.

curious that a university that laid off over 1000 staff members due to financial crisis scrounged up nearly $10M to spend on ... social media posting to appeal to athletic recruits?
frontofficesports.com/college-athl...

Brightness in my day: reorganizing my books and deciding to classify The Locked Tomb as romantasy

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I'm trying to tease out something from "knackered." I also want to reference "Autofac" or that Asimov story where the supercomputers shut themselves down for the good of humanity, but those feel like too deep cuts