Jared Gardner
@guttergeek.bsky.social
Prof of lit & media. University Senate Secretary. Buckeye. Higher ed defender, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Opinions mine
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Towards a Human-Powered AI
Part 2. AI, Take the Wheel
This is part of a series of meditations on the crisis and opportunities presented by AI in higher education and beyond. I use AI. I am fascinated by it. I also believe that...
campus-novel.ghost.io
New post on @campus-novel.bsky.social where I continue to try and think my way through the hype, promise, and existential threat posed by AI, in higher education and beyond. campus-novel.ghost.io/towards-a-hu...
"I bet now you’d kill for a senior thesis based on my free, multilingual, publicly cited, text-based articles, motherfucker."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"I bet now you’d kill for a senior thesis based on my free, multilingual, publicly cited, text-based articles, motherfucker."
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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations
The NY Times is as limber as a contortionist in how it twists its headline away from pointing the finger in the right direction. The student is the one “attacked”? Because he bragged about getting ICE to arrest people at a local car wash and was criticized (and also lauded) online as a result
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The NY Times is as limber as a contortionist in how it twists its headline away from pointing the finger in the right direction. The student is the one “attacked”? Because he bragged about getting ICE to arrest people at a local car wash and was criticized (and also lauded) online as a result
THIS is the reason? A flippant joke about an article about Johnny Cash using the most famous lyrics by {checks notes} Johnny Cash? And they wipe off her entire account? Fuck that. gizmodo.com/bluesky-is-c...
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
THIS is the reason? A flippant joke about an article about Johnny Cash using the most famous lyrics by {checks notes} Johnny Cash? And they wipe off her entire account? Fuck that. gizmodo.com/bluesky-is-c...
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 70s, I thought the "jewish question" was "Why are jews so awesome?" The only thing I miss about the 70s was that delusion.
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 70s, I thought the "jewish question" was "Why are jews so awesome?" The only thing I miss about the 70s was that delusion.
Suspending a respected journalist, author, and historian—especially one who is also a public critic of the ruling powers—demands an explanation to the community. It is a really bad move, unless Bluesky is trying to join the groveling obeisance train. @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team
WTH @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team ? Please reinstate author and historian Sarah Kendzior. #booksky #authors
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Suspending a respected journalist, author, and historian—especially one who is also a public critic of the ruling powers—demands an explanation to the community. It is a really bad move, unless Bluesky is trying to join the groveling obeisance train. @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team
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But… what if what is in my pants is soup cubes? Just, y’know, theoretically
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
But… what if what is in my pants is soup cubes? Just, y’know, theoretically
Same
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Same
Seriously, @chronicle.com ? In addition to being tone deaf and insulting, this cover’s image doesn’t even represent cowardice . Sigh
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Seriously, @chronicle.com ? In addition to being tone deaf and insulting, this cover’s image doesn’t even represent cowardice . Sigh
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If you are a sexual predator who hasn’t yet been able to endorse Cuomo, STAY IN LINE!
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If you are a sexual predator who hasn’t yet been able to endorse Cuomo, STAY IN LINE!
It’s all fun and games until Texas starts imposing tariffs on… wait, what?
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s all fun and games until Texas starts imposing tariffs on… wait, what?
Mamdani born to the wealth and privilege of being the son of an indie film director. Unlike our workingclasss hero Andrew Cuomo who was only born to the wealth and privilege that comes from being born into a corrupt political dynasty. It is like David v Goliath
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Mamdani born to the wealth and privilege of being the son of an indie film director. Unlike our workingclasss hero Andrew Cuomo who was only born to the wealth and privilege that comes from being born into a corrupt political dynasty. It is like David v Goliath
Today’s retreat from the horrors
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Today’s retreat from the horrors
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
When we can no longer tell anise from fennel we can no longer tell truth from lies. It is written
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When we can no longer tell anise from fennel we can no longer tell truth from lies. It is written
I suspect the reason the moguls and their courtiers in Silicon Valley are so convinced that AI is on the verge of being human is because they have so long ago sacrificed their own humanity they know longer know what it means.
a woman says " why should we trust you " in front of a bloomberg sign
ALT: a woman says " why should we trust you " in front of a bloomberg sign
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I suspect the reason the moguls and their courtiers in Silicon Valley are so convinced that AI is on the verge of being human is because they have so long ago sacrificed their own humanity they know longer know what it means.
This dog. This fucking dog. He has eaten half the socks I own and destroyed furniture and treats my office like a litter box and inhaled multiple burritos off a dinner plate … and then every night he transforms into the cutest, sweetest baby and I melt. Every time.
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This dog. This fucking dog. He has eaten half the socks I own and destroyed furniture and treats my office like a litter box and inhaled multiple burritos off a dinner plate … and then every night he transforms into the cutest, sweetest baby and I melt. Every time.
I used to be grateful that phosphorus served as a bottleneck on growth that ultimately gave the lie to the fantasy that technology had broken the Malthusian trap. Now I fear it will be phosphorus that leads to the great culling …
I need to stop thinking about phosphorus don’t I?
I need to stop thinking about phosphorus don’t I?
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I used to be grateful that phosphorus served as a bottleneck on growth that ultimately gave the lie to the fantasy that technology had broken the Malthusian trap. Now I fear it will be phosphorus that leads to the great culling …
I need to stop thinking about phosphorus don’t I?
I need to stop thinking about phosphorus don’t I?
My two sons react very differently when their mom says something wildly offensive (or as we call it for short: “says something”)
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
My two sons react very differently when their mom says something wildly offensive (or as we call it for short: “says something”)
I need a Theremin don’t I? It’s what everyone is thinking but my wife doesn’t seem willing to accept my destiny
a man in a red shirt is playing a keyboard in front of a sign that says tech
ALT: a man in a red shirt is playing a keyboard in front of a sign that says tech
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I need a Theremin don’t I? It’s what everyone is thinking but my wife doesn’t seem willing to accept my destiny
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Things I have never understood:
Pumpkin patches
Pumpkin flavored coffee
Pumpkin pie
The Great Pumpkin
Fascism
Pumpkin patches
Pumpkin flavored coffee
Pumpkin pie
The Great Pumpkin
Fascism
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Things I have never understood:
Pumpkin patches
Pumpkin flavored coffee
Pumpkin pie
The Great Pumpkin
Fascism
Pumpkin patches
Pumpkin flavored coffee
Pumpkin pie
The Great Pumpkin
Fascism
Many years devoted to learning chess has convinced me I am not good at chess
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Many years devoted to learning chess has convinced me I am not good at chess
New post on @campus-novel.bsky.social where I continue to try and think my way through the hype, promise, and existential threat posed by AI, in higher education and beyond. campus-novel.ghost.io/towards-a-hu...
Towards a Human-Powered AI
Part 2. AI, Take the Wheel
This is part of a series of meditations on the crisis and opportunities presented by AI in higher education and beyond. I use AI. I am fascinated by it. I also believe that...
campus-novel.ghost.io
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New post on @campus-novel.bsky.social where I continue to try and think my way through the hype, promise, and existential threat posed by AI, in higher education and beyond. campus-novel.ghost.io/towards-a-hu...