Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus
Jane Austen, "Style and Stylyness" - Rachel Steingarten is enduring a boring summer at her aunt's house in the Hamptons when loud relatives from Long Beach arrive and turn everything upside-down. To find romance, Rachel must discern the true meaning of "styly." Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women, Big Waves" - The March sisters reunite for one last family summer on Cape Cod-only to discover that their childhood cottage has been booked for a competitive surfing reality show. Jo vows to write a tell-all, Meg wants a quaint wedding, Amy eyes influencer glory, and Beth... brought a harp for sunset sound-baths. Sisterhood meets salt water-and somebody wipes out. Henry James, "The Turn of the Tide" - Anxious American heiress Florence Bly arrives on Martha's Vineyard to oversee a luxury-condo inheritance-and immediately suspects the seawall (and the caretaker) are gas-lighting her about rising waters. Is the mansion really sinking, or is it just European suitors angling for her fortune? A slow-burn psychological rip-current.
It’s summer and we’re all looking for beach reads. Fortunately the lesser-known works of 19c authors are often perfect for the beach. I asked o3 to find a few overlooked gems.
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
A screenshot of two reposted social media messages on the Bluesky platform. The first post is by @ctrlcreep and reads: “God, who is omnipresent, can hear the rain in every room in every home at once; and the droplets are his fingertips, and the roofs like pianos.” The second post is by @johnattridge and reads: “Babe wake up the snow is falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” Both posts are poetic reflections on precipitation, rain and snow respectively, and their cosmic resonance. Reflection: These two posts form a quiet harmony: one imagines rain as divine touch, music spread across rooftops, while the other draws from Joyce to describe snow as a gentle, universal requiem. Together, they evoke a world where weather is not just meteorology but metaphysics—touch, memory, and the infinite.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but
With an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy
We see into the life of things
Raising them right
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
It’s so easy to vote in the @asecsoffice.bsky.social elections for the Executive Board! Let’s break some voter turnout records!
Hi all, The Doctor Is In is preparting for remote ASECS 2025. Our tentative schedule is:
Thurs 4/3 3pm-6pm PST/6pm-9pm EST/11pm-2am GMT
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Updates coming soon!
#ASECS member friends, please don't forget to vote in the executive board elections! You should have gotten a reminder from Benita this morning.
Hello my ASECS friends! Just in from our ED @bcblessing.bsky.social that voter turnout for Board and presidential elections is at 39%. There’s still time—this week! Voting closes Friday Feb 28. Go vote!!!
Another reminder for ASECS folks: elections for the Executive Board close THIS FRIDAY, and so far the response rate stands at 44%. Cast those ballots!
I'm up for one of the Member-at-Large positions, and of course I'd love your support, but the fact is that you can't go wrong whoever you choose.
ASECS friends! Today is the last day for early bird registration rates for this year's Virtual Annual Conference, which is being held March 28-30 and April 4-6. Hope to see you there?
me: everyone prepare their christmas song?
guy who wrote jingle bells: mine is about bells & horses
me: aw ☺️
guy who wrote silver bells: mine is also mostly abt bells
me: oh. hm. thats fine
guy who wrote carol of the bells: [lighting match & running fingers through it] this world is a nightmare
blue and red watercolor with text: Click to submit
blue watercolor with brain image and text: No thoughts only algorithm
multicolored watercolor dots with text: The algorithm tires of your nonsense
green blue and yellow abstract watercolor with text: do not piss off the algorithm
One of a kind gifts for all your tech friends www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
fair skinned hand holding up a wooden kaleidescope in front of a window. rectangular piece of wood with a intricately colored circular piece of glass inserted in the middle and a rod and small handle are attached to the lowest part of the circle of glass
not everything is terrible - take this 19th century mechanical kaléidoscope for instance that just arrived! what a beauty.
Cc: @jacklynch000.bsky.social
Ok I lol'd. Not going to reskeet because too real and who needs that
The image is a four-panel comic strip illustrating stages of data processing, ending with a humorous take on exit polls. - **First Panel ("Data")**: Shows random dots scattered without any apparent structure. - **Second Panel ("Information")**: Displays a more organized set of dots, suggesting some filtering or sorting of data points. - **Third Panel ("Knowledge")**: Shows connected dots, indicating relationships or insights drawn from the information. - **Fourth Panel ("Exit Polls")**: The connected dots form a cartoonish purple dragon, humorously implying that the exit poll interpretation may be creatively or subjectively shaped beyond what the data suggests.
Epistemology for Tuesdays in November
Love the Cardigan!
Magnificent
Two Yankees fans interfere with a play, and try to wrestle away a ball from a dodgers player.
Hoping for a Yankees loss tonight and then a century-long drought of world series titles so that a curse mythology gets built up around these two dipshits.
yes me inscribing something completed on the work TO DO list just for the unmitigated pleasure of instantly crossing it off
This is absolutely beautiful
We’ve lost Martin Mull and Teri Garr, which means we must protect Michael Keaton at all costs
It took me a second to read the map correctly. Very cool! What’s the range of the world’s tides? Source: https://buff.ly/3BVylfq
