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Cassian a tuxedo cat lounging by a laptop

He’s so handsome

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump www.propublica.org/article/inst...

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

Ha! I knew it! These DOGE fucks were just asking ChatGPT if NEH grants were woke before cancelling them. Whoever in possession of their faculties thought for a second that this was more elaborate than that really has undue faith in humanity.

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

A tuxedo cat hanging out in a cat tree

Hey Cassian!

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I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Thirsty Star Trek The Original Series scene. Ol' pointy ear Spock is "piloting a shuttlecraft" if you know what I mean. He's looking up and concentrating hard. Closed caption reads, "The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive."

#HappyValentinesDay

A panel from FIST OF THE NORTH STAR where Raoh is renouncing the name of Kenoh, the king of fists.

Roses are red,
And you get the gist,

"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

Roses are red,
These times are quite trying

you might say this is…what a fool believes 🎵

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 10: Farewell My Little Viking Part 1

Maya Angelou’s estate joins Utah lawsuit over the state’s school book bans The renowned author’s estate signed on alongside Kurt Vonnegut’s estate and three other authors.

Maya Angelou’s estate joins Utah lawsuit over the state’s school book bans

www.kpcw.org/state-region...

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Harlequin Is Ending Its Historical Romance Line After Nearly 40 Years - Reactor The publisher's decision to end its historical romance line in 2027 comes on the heels of controversial changes to its international publishing tactics

After 40 years of publishing, Harlequin will end its iconic historical romance line in 2027:

#Booksky

Cassian having some intense kitten energy today after snuggling with me this morning. Broke out the yellow catnip banana.

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

A tuxedo cat lying down by a laptop

Tuxedo cat on couch

Cassian perched on box under desk

Cassian being cute

Well, this might be the worst part-time library director job and salary I've seen in a long time. You cannot expect anyone to meet this criteria, under these limited hours, with a salary that wouldn't pay for housing even in a small, rural community.

railslibraries.org/jobs/125031

Fellowship opportunity from
@atbw.bsky.social. Applications due February 2nd. This fellowship is for students enrolled in journalism programs at HBCUs and people working in Black/African American media/newspapers. More info and application here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/iiwa-fellows...

This is so delightful

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 3, Episode 12: Das Bus

A floofy orange cat

Helo being a goof

My sweet kitten Helo was diagnosed with FIP last week and we had to let him go yesterday, despite all our efforts for treatment.

Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal ...

The hottest pattern on Ravelry right now:

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

#FuckICE #AbolishICE #MeltTheICE #KnittersFightNazis

A smol tuxedo kitten

My real sabbatical project is cats. Tiny baby Cassian debut

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter . Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .

Working on article revisions this morning during my first sabbatical week.