Celebrated my promotion to full professor last night!

In the name of efficiency, we're ending volunteer programs?

apnews.com/article/amer...

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

You got to tell me brave captain,
Why are the wicked so strong,
How do the angels get to sleep,
When the devil leaves the porchlight on.

Tom Waits, "Mr. Siegal"
youtu.be/uL3yp75Gb7Q?...

Listening to @jsanofranchini.bsky.social at the #4C25 Chair's address and keep thinking of the quote I love from Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," arguably the origin of information theory,...

Great dystopian science fiction leaves the events that precipitated their dystopias off the page. But this video makes me think we might be living through the events that led to Snow Crash, Neuromancer, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, Ubik, and The Windup Girl
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jdxWXF/

I'm on a research project that helps students understand how human-AI hybrid processes can support writing development.

Meanwhile, the US is letting AI impose tariffs without a human in the loop.

Bright side: Support for my argument
Down Side: Economic madness
futurism.com/trump-tariff...

I cannot re-recommend this enough.
My key takeaway so far is that conspiracy theory is alluring because "it feels like critical thinking." So succinct

When I was in my twenties, I got some advice along the lines of, 'Make sure to take time to appreciate the occasional sunrise. It's worth the effort.'

Sunrises remain just as inspirational today, but I would appreciate having time to occasionally miss a sunrise or two.

From the 1994 Budapest Memo
"The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine [...] to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine."
treaties.un.org/Pages/showDe...

Everybody should take a moment to listen to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's version of You've Got a Friend. Think about what you can do to support the people you care about and remember Roberta fondly

This release concludes with links to 4 examples the Dept of Ed deems wasteful. The links are tweets from Christopher Rufo. The Dept is outsourcing research to activist Twitter accounts - wielding power in an unserious way, without rigor, & with open disdain for any who think to examine their methods

"You want to believe [...] only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?"
Frank Herbert

Started keeping a dog walking journal. Just a pic and a brief description of the weather, any wildlife, and what kind of training we worked on.

It's tremendously boring and I would never ask anyone to read it.

Being accountable to no one but myself has been incredibly good for my mental health