One of my students tried to claim this last semester. They were “paraphrasing with quotation marks” (spoiler alert: AI hallucination, not a real quote).
It’s so clear and warm here tonight.
Greening up in the arboretum. You can stand by this tree and pretend you’re in a cypress forest in Japan.
The world is on fire but spring returns in spite of our stupidity. #FlowerReport
I think of this speech, so often, too often, in fact. It is one of the most pertinent you could hear, today.
This is such good news!
May Colson Hall be a queer space forever and ever amen.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.
36 hours in Brooklyn to see the kid and his girlfriend. Leaving at the break of dawn to get back through the mountains before the blizzard.
I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies.
She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia:
#academia #genAI
refusal.blog
Come, good boy, the next way home.
(It’s because late papers are continually being added to the stack, but at some point, surely, I will have graded them all?)
I am caught in a grading vortex where no matter how many papers I grade (and I have graded dozens, maybe hundreds, who even knows?), I’m perpetually six papers from being finished. This can’t literally be true, and yet here I am, with six more papers to grade.
There’s a new bridge across the creek in the distance, but it isn’t open yet. It will lead to a new trail on the other side of the reservoir. I’m excited to see the views from there of the places we thought we knew so intimately. A new perspective. Maybe we don’t know this park at all.
Beautiful blue-green late winter water through the melting ice.
"Be positive, an old friend tells me. I'm screaming. Silently."
An update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal on behalf of my wife and me.
As the appeal nears its end and as we push hard to transition from sea-dwelling to settlement ashore, we really need your help, if you can give it.
Disciplinary conventions are allowed to be different for different disciplines. I’m glad we read papers in the humanities, so long as they are tailored to oral delivery and keep within the time limits. There’s an art to doing this, and many ways to do it well.
That’s awful! Inexcusable.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
The AI isn't smart like humans.
LLMs do not deduce.
LLMs do not infer.
LLMs do not reason.
LLMs do not do math.
LLMs do not make graphs and tables from existing datasets.
LLMs cannot write conclusions.
LLMs CAN use a template and fill in the blanks with appropriate-sounding plausible words.
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity
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I’m curious about this. Is there particular historic value in keeping the hoard together? Are museums likely to want these particular coins? I’m wondering about coins vs other sorts of artifacts.
I used gf rice crispies crushed in melted butter to replace the wheat. It’s a decent substitution. Might try crushed rice Chex next time.
Homemade gluten free Dubai chocolate hearts. I’m so pleased they worked! Found the heart mold at Goodwill last month. The pink platter is also from Goodwill, years ago. Thrifty valentines for K, who can’t have gluten. 💝
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Didn’t expect to weep through the halftime show, but here we are.
Truly he is the Best Bunny.
Yum!
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
