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I called Clippy “early ai” the other day and my students lost it 🤯
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I called Clippy “early ai” the other day and my students lost it 🤯
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?
I am running out of places to acquire supplies for a functional life in this hellscape.
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am running out of places to acquire supplies for a functional life in this hellscape.
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠
And often ignores two things: that faculty and staff had to pivot online with virtually no prep time, and that faculty and staff ALSO lived through the effects of the pandemic. It’s not like we were sitting in a safe bunker watching from a safe space - we were there too.
when faculty complain about students, I want to ask them if they factor in pandemic trauma + COVID itself.
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And often ignores two things: that faculty and staff had to pivot online with virtually no prep time, and that faculty and staff ALSO lived through the effects of the pandemic. It’s not like we were sitting in a safe bunker watching from a safe space - we were there too.
I would like to see this in print
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I would like to see this in print
Maybe we don’t need the imaginary monsters today they are walking around kidnapping people off the street, and others are both real and virtual real time monsters of a tool that claims to be intelligent.
NEW VIDEO: If monsters reflect the fears of the societies that create them, how might the fears of our world today manifest in monstrous form?
youtu.be/SqE75IlZK9k
youtu.be/SqE75IlZK9k
There Will Always Be Monsters
YouTube video by Andrewism
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Maybe we don’t need the imaginary monsters today they are walking around kidnapping people off the street, and others are both real and virtual real time monsters of a tool that claims to be intelligent.
What an extractive and appropriative waste. I hope Baldwin’s ghost and all his ghost friends haunt the techbros forever and they never have a peaceful sleep.
James Baldwin parceled out into AI-selected therapeutic memes, stylized via a typewriter interface: the “people-centered” AI future made possible through $500M in philanthropic funding. Without such technological advancement, we’d have no other means of accessing Baldwin quotations!
Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What an extractive and appropriative waste. I hope Baldwin’s ghost and all his ghost friends haunt the techbros forever and they never have a peaceful sleep.
The number of times I have just walked out of a store for being treated like a thief just for walking in the door 😒
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The number of times I have just walked out of a store for being treated like a thief just for walking in the door 😒
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄
Just ordered my coffee from a small roasting co and given the shipping costs it had better last me the entire winter 😣 (given the economy too!)
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just ordered my coffee from a small roasting co and given the shipping costs it had better last me the entire winter 😣 (given the economy too!)
Developing exhibit of Black history in the southwest and I am in my element with ideas firing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It’s not often that I get to flex creative storytelling ideas (between academic bureaucracy and grading). I love my students, but this is some type of fun i haven’t had in a while
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Developing exhibit of Black history in the southwest and I am in my element with ideas firing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It’s not often that I get to flex creative storytelling ideas (between academic bureaucracy and grading). I love my students, but this is some type of fun i haven’t had in a while
I need a friend on the East Coast who I can just call whenever I need to do a DST time conversion. The change is coming again in Nov and scheduling meetings in advance is a nightmare 😣
#endDST
#endDST
October 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I need a friend on the East Coast who I can just call whenever I need to do a DST time conversion. The change is coming again in Nov and scheduling meetings in advance is a nightmare 😣
#endDST
#endDST
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My not so hot take of the day: paying for hotel parking. This has crept up in the last few years (it used be some places, now it’s most places) paying for a room should include parking in the lot you built w/the first round of funding for your hotel. Why am I paying for a lot you already paid for?!
September 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My not so hot take of the day: paying for hotel parking. This has crept up in the last few years (it used be some places, now it’s most places) paying for a room should include parking in the lot you built w/the first round of funding for your hotel. Why am I paying for a lot you already paid for?!
“Congress has reaffirmed its bipartisan support for IMLS” decrease in total budget but not eliminated and not reduced to a skeleton 💪🏽
Still a lot of work for us to do!
#museums #culturalheritage #libraries #archives #preservation
Still a lot of work for us to do!
#museums #culturalheritage #libraries #archives #preservation
September 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“Congress has reaffirmed its bipartisan support for IMLS” decrease in total budget but not eliminated and not reduced to a skeleton 💪🏽
Still a lot of work for us to do!
#museums #culturalheritage #libraries #archives #preservation
Still a lot of work for us to do!
#museums #culturalheritage #libraries #archives #preservation
I am trapped in by a cycling event every year (not the same as OPs) & while I love that for them I sure wish they’d let residents know that they won’t be able to leave their house for the day 😣
Woke up to discover that the roads were blocked on all sides by the Maryland Cycling Classic, then proceeded to have an absorbing, if unexpected, day watching some great cycling—dashing from the TV to the street when the riders passed by. It was a much needed distraction and a lovely day.
September 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I am trapped in by a cycling event every year (not the same as OPs) & while I love that for them I sure wish they’d let residents know that they won’t be able to leave their house for the day 😣
I mean, the constitution is posted everywhere already and that hasn’t stopped them from ripping it to shreds I’m sure the commandments will work out though 🙄
I’m sure the moment they go up, no one in government will commit adultery. Keep fighting the good fight, Sarah.
I think we can know murder is wrong without the Ten Commandments in government buildings.
August 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I mean, the constitution is posted everywhere already and that hasn’t stopped them from ripping it to shreds I’m sure the commandments will work out though 🙄
No one should be surprised by this coming from the AHA 😒
anyone else remember their 2021 claim that volunteers could jump in and do the work of archivists at NARA while also implying that archivists just weren’t wiling to meet the needs of historians DURING A PANDEMIC 😣
link to letter in comments
anyone else remember their 2021 claim that volunteers could jump in and do the work of archivists at NARA while also implying that archivists just weren’t wiling to meet the needs of historians DURING A PANDEMIC 😣
link to letter in comments
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No one should be surprised by this coming from the AHA 😒
anyone else remember their 2021 claim that volunteers could jump in and do the work of archivists at NARA while also implying that archivists just weren’t wiling to meet the needs of historians DURING A PANDEMIC 😣
link to letter in comments
anyone else remember their 2021 claim that volunteers could jump in and do the work of archivists at NARA while also implying that archivists just weren’t wiling to meet the needs of historians DURING A PANDEMIC 😣
link to letter in comments
From the list provided, the only one that could actually work is sales - everything else
requires human thinking 🤦🏽♀️ Interpretation cannot be done by that machine-that-will-not-be-named
no offense to sales people & I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs to, but we already have models for sales
requires human thinking 🤦🏽♀️ Interpretation cannot be done by that machine-that-will-not-be-named
no offense to sales people & I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs to, but we already have models for sales
You know what I’d like to see? Mainstream history journals, public history forums, historians doing podcasts all pushing back against the crappy ignorant understanding of our profession here.
I work with material culture, please tell me how AI will take over my job and touch and sense and analyze.
I work with material culture, please tell me how AI will take over my job and touch and sense and analyze.
Yo, historians, what the actual ****?
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
July 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
From the list provided, the only one that could actually work is sales - everything else
requires human thinking 🤦🏽♀️ Interpretation cannot be done by that machine-that-will-not-be-named
no offense to sales people & I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs to, but we already have models for sales
requires human thinking 🤦🏽♀️ Interpretation cannot be done by that machine-that-will-not-be-named
no offense to sales people & I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs to, but we already have models for sales
Whether the results of their action are against immigrants or documented americans, they need to be held accountable for violating the legal and human rights of the people they are detaining.
ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
July 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Whether the results of their action are against immigrants or documented americans, they need to be held accountable for violating the legal and human rights of the people they are detaining.
It rained today! and that’s a win in the desert. Also, my coauthor (not on bluesky) and I submitted our completed chapter draft on Monday 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Yes actually now is a great time to share good news
Now is a great time to celebrate the good news of strangers
To be the kind of people who are happy for other people to have good things happen to them
Yes indeed
Now is a great time to celebrate the good news of strangers
To be the kind of people who are happy for other people to have good things happen to them
Yes indeed
July 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It rained today! and that’s a win in the desert. Also, my coauthor (not on bluesky) and I submitted our completed chapter draft on Monday 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Motion to to move recommendation letters to mid-semester or to never? How about never requiring these?
I am happy to recommend my students; they are brilliant! I am not happy about requests piling up…
I am happy to recommend my students; they are brilliant! I am not happy about requests piling up…
May 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Motion to to move recommendation letters to mid-semester or to never? How about never requiring these?
I am happy to recommend my students; they are brilliant! I am not happy about requests piling up…
I am happy to recommend my students; they are brilliant! I am not happy about requests piling up…
Listen, I know we are all under pressure and have multiple demands on our time. But, please, I beg, open invitations and announcements well before the event or mtg! Too often I get invitations a day or two before an event/meeting and my calendar is too tight to pivot that sharply 😒
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Listen, I know we are all under pressure and have multiple demands on our time. But, please, I beg, open invitations and announcements well before the event or mtg! Too often I get invitations a day or two before an event/meeting and my calendar is too tight to pivot that sharply 😒
There isn’t a modern book that I haven’t either been able to pick up at the local indie or order from my local indie. And any older books I get from a used bookstore, or bookshop.org 🤷🏽♀️
my audio books come from the library 📚
also #fundyourlibrary please
my audio books come from the library 📚
also #fundyourlibrary please
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There isn’t a modern book that I haven’t either been able to pick up at the local indie or order from my local indie. And any older books I get from a used bookstore, or bookshop.org 🤷🏽♀️
my audio books come from the library 📚
also #fundyourlibrary please
my audio books come from the library 📚
also #fundyourlibrary please
Not naming any names, just saying…
April 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Not naming any names, just saying…
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Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.