I would say NHS capacity has noticeably nosedived in the last ten years.
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I would say NHS capacity has noticeably nosedived in the last ten years.
going to show this to students as an example of your brain on chatbots 🍳
I like this quick and pithy infographic for students. (Higher-quality version here: www.jessicacalarco.com/teaching-res...)
and thank god for that!
Similar gamble with publishers putting endnotes online to save on pagination. Great idea as long as the website lasts forever but you can pick up a book from 100 years ago and know the sources are all in there
Hot off the press! AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WAR ON CRIME: NOVELS & THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION, by Theodore Martin. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30%! tinyurl.com/482zmjsw @columbiaup.bsky.social
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
“Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?… A quick look at the three bookshops is telling: they are antifascist, they are proud of it and they are institutions in their communities.”
Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.
Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel
Look if these cis men philosophers had ever had to deal with the deluge of mansplainy emails by men without philosophy PhDs I have received to my personal and work inboxes since I started blogging in 2009 they would NOT be so taken with AI scam emails
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Having recently attended a short @ihr.bsky.social course in London I recommend this one if it’s your thing. Don’t be put off if about it being a *university* course. My experience was very warm and friendly; so many people from different backgrounds all shared their knowledge and experience.
this completely checks out
that duck is living better than I am
It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...
it's all over military nomenclature 🤢
Basically I support this:
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Most of this is appalling waste but the piano makes sense and I hope they keep it tuned and well maintained. Get a Moog and a bass as well. Stop buying bombs.
Cool timing, or not, while Times Guild
members are currently bargaining over AI: newsguild.org/inside-ai-ne...
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.
You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
my friend's neighbours in lebanon have been displaced by bombing and are living on the streets in beirut. pls consider donating; they need money for medication for disabled children
'How Chinese Students Transformed British Chinatowns', by Barclay Bram, for @vittles.bsky.social.
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.
The lines that are being drawn here are around a binary in which the future of education is either:
a.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with books
or
b.) Christian nationalist indoctrination with chatbots
There is no third way coming from the conservatives or establishment liberals.
Really seems the UK could be generating energy-- becoming more sustainable, building decent jobs (scales of green economy work) and building up communities through local investment-- rather than siphoning off its wealth into data centres. See also mitpress.mit.edu/978026203889...
