Will Canoe-Sick

Oh man I bet that was amazing!

Kim Gordon: still cool af

ONE BATTLE ALWAYS ALREADY

(Sorry about this, everybody)

OR only want their input to give a veneer of shared governance, but ultimately go in another direction.

Hot take: I actually think faculty have amazing ideas for saving higher ed and the specificity of local knowledge to save their individual institutions. But they are not ultimately the decision makers, even with “shared governance”

I understand this sounds like a lie but my 9yo pointed out that since all species share a single common ancestor the egg definitionally came before the chicken and it blew my fucking mind

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

Workers required to monitor AI agents closely reported fourteen percent more mental effort, twelve percent more mental fatigue, and nineteen percent greater information overload than those whose AI engagement was less demanding.

This is my world now that I have to deal with students using AI. Not all, or even most, are using it… but the ones who are have made it so I have to spend more time with everybody’s work…. It giving more feedback but analyzing the work for authenticity. I end up giving less feedback to everyone 🤷‍♂️

Imagine a version of INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY where they let Phoebe Waller-Bridge break the fourth wall like she did in FLEABAG

You know what? Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Indiana Jones’s estranged goddaughter is great casting and THE DIAL OF DESTINY is a terrible movie

Also Christian Slater as a late 80s skater in GLEAMING THE CUBE, which I have nostalgia for but is a terrible movie

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Gary Oldman should have been an AMAZING Dracula

All the cool kids have given up reading entirely and are crushing it at Innovation Middle School

I DON'T TURN ON MY HEADLIGHTS BECAUSE: 1. I AM NOT A SHEEP 2. I REFUSE TO LIVE IN FEAR 3. I CAN SEE JUST FINE 4. I RESPECT YOUR CHOICE TO USE YOUR LIGHTS, SO RESPECT MY CHOICE NOT TO 5. IF OTHER DRIVERS CAN NOT SEE ME, THAT IS THEIR PROBLEM. 6. IT MAY BE A LAW, BUT IT IS UNJUST AND INFRINGES ON MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS 7. I HAVE A MEDICAL EXEMPTION AND YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK ME ABOUT THAT 8. I AM A MEMBER OF THE FREEDOM TO DRIVE IN THE DARK COMMITTEE

Why I Don't Turn On My Headlights !!

I’ve had “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls stuck in my head for at least a week. At what point do I go to the emergency room?

Look who got pulled in again!

The Godfather Part II

(This is a great joke)

About a year ago I googled “current movies”

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

Man this is rough news for challenges

Now that we have figured out you can smash a hamburger they should come out with other smashed foods. Hey, I smashed your soufflé for you

Hey. I invented a gadget. The bad news is it uses all the world’s water but the good news is you have to keep giving me a lot of money for it to keep working

The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.

Annie Abrams is doing some of the best commentary on ongoing efforts to make k-12 teaching increasingly rigid and unimaginative, with teachers themselves enjoined to be little more than automatons. Strong pressure to use teaching scripts — scripts that encourage children to memorize but not think.

The second and third rules of fight club are have fun and don’t get hurt

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I feel like some melodrama because the time change has affected my Sirkadian rhythms

*Yoga Instructor Voice* IN ON THE KILL TAKER by Fugazi is right there any time you need it

amazing story: my family & I were at a petting zoo & a goat escaped. instinct took over & I ran after him, caught him, & brought him back to his pen.

don’t ever tell me people with PhDs are useless. I’m basically a farmer now.