Keith W. Mathias

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

With AI infecting every previously useful tool, it’s more important than ever for us to cultivate Luddite sensibilities. stimpunks.org/glossary/lud...

If there's no way for institutions or LMS providers to simply block these browsers, then what are we even doing here?

I love these! Where can I get a dozen to slap up around my campus?

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer

1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else

2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

I am glad that you haven’t changed but also do you just hate joy, Xzy?

AI mistake led to Baltimore County gun scare caught on body cam With guns drawn, Baltimore County Police surrounded a group of students after the Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders that a student had a gun.

These AI surveillance systems are going to get someone killed

Please god let me have a full blown pro wrestling entrance for 4Cs I’d die happy.

100% this

Okay how come none of y’all told me Blue Eye Samurai is really good? I tried to give it a shot on release but got turned off by the animation, but on giving it another shot the last few days, I’ve really gotten into it.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I have watched a lot of possession movies, and The Exorcist is still the best one by miles. What a stunning piece of cinema.

If this image ain’t a metaphor for something, I don’t know what is.

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You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

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These feel like relatively small changes that would go an awfully long way in improving the user experience

I appreciate the Canvas feedback library, but I would really like to see that expanded to in-line comments as well. Also, the ability to draw from the comment library and have that content added to something I've already written, rather than overwriting it.

Yeesh what a season for my Baltimore Ravens. It's genuinely painful to watch.

Here's hoping that folks get healthy over the bye week and they iron out their coaching woes, and then go on the run of a lifetime.

David Simon is occasionally a doofus, but this is not one of those times.

Then it deserves to die

Where is the sketchy basement show? “Ask a punk” printed at the bottom of the flyer.

First set starts at 11:30pm.

AI functions identically to fascism.

Obviously the gnarliest grindcore record of the year

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Bro clearly hasn't seen One Battle After Another yet.

I guess it’s a good thing when your oncologist says things like “your scans look basically normal,” right?

(Yes, this is a very good thing)

Oh goodness, thank you!

This book looks awesome, but being forced to go through JHU Press's website to preorder is an absolute nightmare. No idea why it won't go through, but here we are. Maybe I'll remember to get a preorder in some other day.

Wait wait wait

Is this suggesting that college Presidents and Provosts are faculty? Because no, they most certainly are not.

Best and only LLM worth using

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.