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Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.
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apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is a cool paper showing that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
But giving them access to an LLM for guidance significantly closes the gap. mgcuna.github.io/website/JMP_...
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This is the week AI became presidential
This shallow essay argues that AI will become "conscious" when ppl succumb to the ELIZA effect: a known vulnerability since the 60s. Montero makes uninformed public views the gold standard in benchmarking tech.
In 2023, Judy Estrin called "AI" authoritarian intelligence. This completes the recipe.
In 2023, Judy Estrin called "AI" authoritarian intelligence. This completes the recipe.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is the week AI became presidential
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I would add that there are some, upon hearing that “no, no I don’t us Chat gpt” respond with a condescending smile while looking at me like I’m denying that the earth is round
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I would add that there are some, upon hearing that “no, no I don’t us Chat gpt” respond with a condescending smile while looking at me like I’m denying that the earth is round
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
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Interesting that none of the past few years’ discussions of close reading really circled back to this banger: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/E...
raley.english.ucsb.edu
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Interesting that none of the past few years’ discussions of close reading really circled back to this banger: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/E...
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Had a chance to talk to one of my go-to guides about how generative AI is advancing and impacting education, @marcwatkins.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Agentic AI Invading the LMS and Other Things We Should Know
A Q&A with Marc Watkins, director of the AI Institute for Teachers.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Had a chance to talk to one of my go-to guides about how generative AI is advancing and impacting education, @marcwatkins.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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How AI agents work is not a matter of natural law.
People shape these systems. People choose whether AI agents identify themselves or not.
Bots should not be allowed to pass themselves off as human in online environments.
We need regulation or voluntary cooperation from AI agent vendors. +
People shape these systems. People choose whether AI agents identify themselves or not.
Bots should not be allowed to pass themselves off as human in online environments.
We need regulation or voluntary cooperation from AI agent vendors. +
The Latest Front in the Battle for Academic Integrity: Initial Thoughts in Response to the Rise of AI Agents - Blog | Anthology
AI Agents are reshaping education—undetectable, unstoppable, and controversial. Discover why higher ed must rethink integrity and assessments in this new AI era
community.anthology.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
How AI agents work is not a matter of natural law.
People shape these systems. People choose whether AI agents identify themselves or not.
Bots should not be allowed to pass themselves off as human in online environments.
We need regulation or voluntary cooperation from AI agent vendors. +
People shape these systems. People choose whether AI agents identify themselves or not.
Bots should not be allowed to pass themselves off as human in online environments.
We need regulation or voluntary cooperation from AI agent vendors. +
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Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-...
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-...
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
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She Won Her Election. Mike Johnson Won’t Swear Her In.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Release the Epstein files.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Release the Epstein files.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Is Speaker Mike Johnson Afraid of Adelita Grijalva?
She won her election. The speaker won’t swear her in.
slate.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
She Won Her Election. Mike Johnson Won’t Swear Her In.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Release the Epstein files.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Release the Epstein files.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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3,382 Ss Soldiers Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images
www.gettyimages.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Brutalizing the populace to subdue it entirely.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Brutalizing the populace to subdue it entirely.
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Opinion | How Op-Eds Play the Long Game of Persuasion
Even in a polarized landscape, people remain capable of considering new perspectives. And political communication and media studies show that op-eds can change minds. https://bit.ly/3WxWU9j
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
Even in a polarized landscape, people remain capable of considering new perspectives. And political communication and media studies show that op-eds can change minds. https://bit.ly/3WxWU9j
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Opinion | How Op-Eds Play the Long Game of Persuasion
Even in a polarized landscape, people remain capable of considering new perspectives. And political communication and media studies show that op-eds can change minds. https://bit.ly/3WxWU9j
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
Even in a polarized landscape, people remain capable of considering new perspectives. And political communication and media studies show that op-eds can change minds. https://bit.ly/3WxWU9j
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
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💙📚👀 #AcademicSky #EduSky
I've taught GG several times. Throwing a Gatsby party is not the best look: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I've taught GG several times. Throwing a Gatsby party is not the best look: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
💙📚👀 #AcademicSky #EduSky
I've taught GG several times. Throwing a Gatsby party is not the best look: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I've taught GG several times. Throwing a Gatsby party is not the best look: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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I sincerely believe that you cannot square representative governance with current techno-authoritarian infrastructure. If a politician isn’t sufficiently afraid of *that*, then they are the enemy. Simple litmus test. Build people power around state campaign finance reform & regulate tech ASAP.
If there's a way to tie this to getting people off the Internet (I know where we are right now) for a little bit and having a genuine community experience, I think it should be tried. I genuinely think we have to find a way to fix social media interaction.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I sincerely believe that you cannot square representative governance with current techno-authoritarian infrastructure. If a politician isn’t sufficiently afraid of *that*, then they are the enemy. Simple litmus test. Build people power around state campaign finance reform & regulate tech ASAP.
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That’s right. He doesn’t care. It’s what he wants. And he’s definitely clued into the idea that if he repeats something enough & makes it part of his reality because it suits him so well, then he has a good chance of the sheeple thinking it’s true. Add the power of a bullying state, & more fold.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That’s right. He doesn’t care. It’s what he wants. And he’s definitely clued into the idea that if he repeats something enough & makes it part of his reality because it suits him so well, then he has a good chance of the sheeple thinking it’s true. Add the power of a bullying state, & more fold.
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A great way to build the capacity for attention is to read books.
when people say "but students are so distracted, what is there to do but teach excerpts," i always think, "teach books"
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A great way to build the capacity for attention is to read books.
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Our Halloween offerings this year.
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Our Halloween offerings this year.
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You might keep an eye out for the film “American Troubles” that’s starting to hit festivals. It presents Ireland’s history of ethnic violence as a blueprint for the path to proportional representation in the US — and outlines the failures of our Voting Rights Act to achieve the same goals.
American Troubles - A Tale of Two Democracies (Trailer)
YouTube video by More Equitable Democracy
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November 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You might keep an eye out for the film “American Troubles” that’s starting to hit festivals. It presents Ireland’s history of ethnic violence as a blueprint for the path to proportional representation in the US — and outlines the failures of our Voting Rights Act to achieve the same goals.
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Veterans and former GOP elected officials quoted Edmund Burke alongside Frederick Douglass, in case you’re wondering whether the normies are fed up.
Medium-sized local protest outside the Urbana, IL courthouse: gotta keep it up 🏃♀️
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Veterans and former GOP elected officials quoted Edmund Burke alongside Frederick Douglass, in case you’re wondering whether the normies are fed up.
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In teaching research as part of writing, I often saw students default to minimal work to meet the checkbox requirements because they felt like it was impossible for them to ever take in enough information to find THE answer to their question. I see something similar in full-grown scholars today who
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In teaching research as part of writing, I often saw students default to minimal work to meet the checkbox requirements because they felt like it was impossible for them to ever take in enough information to find THE answer to their question. I see something similar in full-grown scholars today who
Baller.
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Baller.