Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

@in-otter-news.bsky.social is also good for this kind of timeline cleanse.

I cling to the faint hope that some very ambitious and politically astute state AGs see the golden carrot that is dangling before them.

For anyone that needs a primer, I present the legend:

But according to the NY Times, the Trump administration just "repealed" climate change. 🙃

New research project: a Philip K. Dick-esque scramble suit, but with Nightshade-esque embedded malware that bricks the glasses.

Why do so many tech companies seem so ignorant that most sci-fi is premised on dystopian futures we DON'T WANT?!?

I like it when my food bites back. It makes me feel like I earned it. Or something...

Next up: Fugazi and the Descendants? Patti Smith and Primus?

I've already got about 35 weeks of material for my 15-week course, so I can't add it. But my list of why utilitarianism is a bad moral theory just keeps growing...

And he’s…right? That set was incredible.

Kenneth Walker III. The guy has been unstoppable.