Screenshot of a YouTube video posted by NBC Sports titled, "Alysa Liu's FABULOUS gold medal-winning free skate, Winter Olympics 2026."
This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...
No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society
Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...
Weβre launching an Informational Interview Directory to help AEFP members connect, explore career paths, and share research insights! Interested in being listed? Complete the form by February 9, 2026 aefpweb.org/mentoring
I regret to inform you that β1979β by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called β2009β
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
Rams and Niners fans are rooting for the division rival that beat us both in the playoffs if you wanna know how bad the Pats vibes are
38 years ago today, January 24, 1988, #TheSimpsons short βGone Fishin'β first aired on The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox.
Wr: Matt Groening. Animation: David Silverman, Wes Archer and Bill Kopp.
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Silent generation to Gen X kids: βyeah, yeah, just get out of the house. Dinner is at 6.β
βGen X moms way moreβ Fact check: true
When effort, judgment, and cognition are consistently outsourced, they atrophy. Schools should be far more concerned about that than about any specific technology. Making things easier isn't always the answer.
Real learning is hard.
a friend recently shared this with me and i'm obsessed β it's an MTV/VH1 simulator with almost 30,000 videos (organized by decade) along with special sections for things like 120 Minutes, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, and Pop-Up Video (!!!) wantmymtv.vercel.app
Yeah weβve already ruined 6-7. In 2026 weβre gonna ruin 41
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattanβ¦
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.οΏΌ
How deepfake AI job applicants are stealing remote work
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldnβt get over how much people smoked indoors. βwouldnβt everything smell bad?β they asked
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
Explaining Mr. Rogers to kids who didn't grow up with him is a trip because he sounds like a political juggernaut.
When public pools were segregated, he put his feet in a kiddy pool with Officer Clemmens, a Black man.
He saved PBS by addressing senate.
He made his show accessible for blind kids.
I find the idea that you need to know βhow to useβ AI tools really funny, as if it isnβt incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
In this piece I wrote about how AI is harming teaching and the academic job market, but of course itβs also undermining scholarship
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Where we're going, we don't need roads.
This is so bad Iβm actually offended
Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and cafΓ©.
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Someone on twitter writes: "You could move to Aplington, Iowa and get a job at the post office making $25 an hour to start, meet a nice girl at the First Reformed Church and take her on a date to Stinky's Bar and Grill, and get married and raise up seven children in this house but you will not do it." There's a screenshot of a Zillow listing showing a rundown 8 bedroom, 1 bathroom home for $95,000.
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
And the result is the core of people who *are* dedicated to things like program design and the student experience outside their individual classes are, comparatively, overworked. Equity issues abound (at the individual level, yes, and often along lines of sex/gender).
The thing about collegial governance at a university is that it takes collegiality. By this I don't mean *congeniality* (being nice) but a shared sense of responsibility and dedication.
Mistakes have been flagged in The Washington Post's AI-generated personalised podcasts that launched this week, with the title's standards editor describing them as "frustrating". The issues include the misattribution or invention of quotes www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Thank you! I couldn't believe all the people last summer saying it was funny
