I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
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L (biggest breath I can possibly hold in my middle aged lungs) MAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
"These practices must end now."
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
Incredible. Millions are newly-mobilized, questioning how their taxes are being used to hurt their neighbors.
Republicans are in a terrible position.
Democrats have huge leverage.
And they may just go ahead and give DHS more money — as long as they slap on a few rules DHS is already not following.
when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
I’m seeing the same thing in my Facebook feed.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
The Boston Globe Test:
This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time.
Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint?
If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Ahh, sounds like my June (crown/root canal, car repair, emergency vet x2, plumbing catastrophe). I'm sorry you're ending your year in such a way!
Why would I hand over my most marketable/in-demand class? Why would I assist them in devaluing the educational experience and the labor of faculty more than they already do?
Anyway, I told them they have two options: leave me alone to teach the class or cancel it. We’ll see what happens!
The contract literally reduces education to content creation. And then asserts all ownership over that content.
One of my fears is that they plan to pay someone far less to “teach it,” aka use all my materials + grading + corresponding.
…my rights to the course content. I wouldn’t be able to use it if I left the school in any way that competes or conflicts with the school. I declined to sign the contract, and have already had a dean meeting, a Vice Provost of Something meeting, and I’m still not signing.
I’m teaching an online grad course (synchronously) this spring. My college sent me a “course development” contract. It would force me to co-develop something I’ve already taught 4 times with our teaching and learning/online/edtech office, which I don’t want to do, and I would have to give up all…
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
If you're looking for a good breakdown of the implications of the Warner Brothers-Netflix deal on the US media environment, this Dwayne Winseck thread is the place to go.
I spot-checked other 5 citations... all wrong! I love that "educational thought leaders" are producing content about "AI" by clearly using something like ChatGPT and not even double checking the output. It's a great timeline we're living in.
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I get notifications when I'm cited (it was helpful for when I went up for promotion last year) and I've noticed an increase in my name appearing in "research" and other docs alongside titles I've never published!
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
