Which means less grad students to teach classes, which means more research hours spent on teaching, which means less time for research and grant writing, which means less research and less grad students, which means less innovation, which means less economic growth.

I went to a conference, and came back to ICE and CPB launching side quests into my community from their nearby invasion of Charlotte.

So that's a fun thing I get to deal with tomorrow.

As Border Patrol arrived, this small army mobilized to keep Raleigh neighbors safe | Opinion More than 500 people met at a Raleigh church. | Opinion

More than 500 people met at a Raleigh church. | Opinion

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.

It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how many veggies you eat when it comes to a pandemic.

These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.

Tenured Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren living every faculty member’s dream of publicly destroying your shitty university president.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years

This Harper’s pullout on media consolidation caught my attention from across the concourse. As I wrote last month, this might be in my top ten list of things to make sense of.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

In my Foundations of HCI class, we’re in the midst of our social computing section, thinking about how to address online toxicities. Had the students play Masnick’s “Trust & Safety Tycoon” game in class yesterday. Their reactions: moderation is HARD... www.techdirt.com/2023/10/17/t...

How often do I have to keep reposting this strip?
#cloudflare

Can’t disagree

Solidarity with friends facing the goons in the triangle and charlotte. We will win.

How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons (This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …

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So there is the f**ked up rule(ing) they made at some point that lets CPB violate some rights within 100 miles of a border, but Charlotte is 170ish miles from the ocean, and very far away from Canada... so what is CPB even doing there, out side of checking customs on parcels at the air port?

Border Patrol protest today in Charlotte, NC. 11/15

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

McSweeney's doing the real journalism

Wait, this is satire?

Are you certain? Cause I'm pretty sure I heard exactly this from a Fox interview

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

For those who know what “crenellated” means, like we do, this house has it (or them). Crenels here, crenels there. Just a ton of that good stuff. Reference #49308

Real Estate: Crenellated Aesthetic

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more,
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

Was wondering what this 3 cuing thing was. Now I know.

But if this has you fired up, wait till you find out about learning styles.

100%

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

Zoomers think life was better in previous decades? Try writing your papers in SCRIPT on a monochrome 3270 terminal

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

I went back and looked at the SoCar presentations at this conference and feel better now.

Sorry for the freak out.

The point is, I am all for AI, and I can see LLMs/Generative AI having some value, but I think higher ed, and my field are getting high on vaporware.