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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

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Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027!

Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo
Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin
Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado
Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler
Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu
Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"

actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

The Performance of Roman Comedy

The Performance of Roman Comedy: Publications of the 2023 NEH Institute now online #openaccess romancomedy.pubpub.org @nehafge3403.bsky.social @tofte.bsky.social @platanoclassics.bsky.social @denlinger.bsky.social

Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those

Any Dem focusing on talking about tax cuts for the rich now instead of "President threatens to arrest Democratic Nominee for Mayor of NYC while celebrating opening of Florida Concentration Camp" is not paying attention and is not fighting for you and your safety.

ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Pritzker!! The reckoning is here

Reading for information is the entry-point. It’s step 1 of a ladder w many rungs worth climbing. TFT so many students have been allowed - even encouraged! - to think that is all reading is for, the sole thing, robs us daily. Writing is meant to challenge and diving into that challenge is wondrous.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

Cupid and Psyche, Part I: Marrying Amelia Bedelia and the Problem of Beauty A lot of people will try to tell you that the story of Cupid and Psyche is a Neoplatonic allegory for the soul, but don’t you let them. It’s a story designed to reassure the average person that beauti...

the lovely thing about the Cupid & Psyche legend is that it's like if two very beautiful Amelia Bedelias got married and then immediately fell down a very deep well

www.thechatner.com/p/cupid-and-...

Opinion: Trump budget cuts threaten to kill Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park System Without the National Park Service, the Blue Ridge Parkway in N.C. would not exist. We must ensure national parks are not slashed by Trump cuts.

Trump and his allies are standing on Pennsylvania Ave about to shoot the #NationalParkService. Will we stand by and watch this, too? My op-ed in today's #Asheville Citizen-Times. Wake up #NorthCarolina congressional delegation! #BlueRidgeParkway @altnps.bsky.social

Teaching is always like that! I’ve been doing it for years, and you never know for sure if it’s working. But it’s good work to have done

this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?

i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.

the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser

Guys trading Marcus Aurelius quotes who don’t pay their own phone bill.

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

Like all children, he yearns for the mines

the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts

I would 100% purchase this

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

The other thing about this is that this is a solved problem in scholarship. Vance's vision of culture is a Herderian vision of unique, hermetically sealed, cultural groupings defined by shared history and values since time immemorial. Which is nonsense! Just not how it works!

hell yeah now we’re cooking

Large language models don't understand *anything*. "Understanding" is a brain activity. An LLM produces statistically probable sequences of words. Sometimes those sequences convey useful information. Sometimes it's statistically probable that "railroad" and "Harriet Tubman" appear near each other.

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure ...

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This is the thing - it does not matter. It's not true. It's not nonsense. But even if it wasn't, it does not matter. It's illegal to do this to those agencies. It's illegal to do this to our data. The argument that it would be good if it weren't isn't a legal argument. We either have law or not.