Jennifer Hendricks

“The cat that wanted to be alone” - from 1945. The eagle is the US, the bear is Russia, and the lion is the UK. If only they had left us alone decades ago…

Mir Houssein Mousavi led Iran’s Green Movt in 2009. He ran for pres & received immense support from the Iranian ppl. Millions voted 4 him in an election w/high turn out. But the vote was stolen by the govt, leading 2mass protests. Mousavi & others were put under house arrest /n x.com/tparsi/statu...

That would include having plenty of access to students if you chose to hold yourself out as a mentor or whatever.

Even at my lowly state university, a mere professor emerita gets library privileges, a shared office, some staff support, invitations to talks and events, and if you're lucky an MS Office subscription. You are retired but very much still welcome to be part of the intellectual life of the school.

They are giving him emeritus???

"Emerita" doesn't just mean "former." It's an honorary title and usually requires a vote by the appointing authority--the faculty to be a professor emerita but I guess the board to be a president emerita.

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties.
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Interesting example, shooting down drones. Definitely no recent events that would give anyone pause about doing that on your say-so.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Thanks!

Can you explain these more? Why are fish and mice in blue? (Or is it mice in blue with other research animals in tiny orange and red stripes at the top? I thought at first blue vs green was research vs ag?) On 2nd graph, why are there fewer pigs than goats and sheep, opposite of 1st graph?

Well, he effectively said, "it will end next time."

screenshot of part of an email: I'm sorry to say I can't review the piece. I have pledged to avoid academic associations with Columbia due to its administration's decisions to exchange of academic freedom and other values for grant money and political ideology. That pledge is all the more pertinent to the Columbia Law Review, in light of the extraordinary actions of the Review's board in June 2024. I realize, of course, that students who are now working on the Review did not make those decisions. You are nonetheless working under whatever constraints that board has imposed, including the implicit threat that something like 2024 could happen again. My hope is that you will let the board know that their actions have damaged the intellectual credibility of the Review to the point where at least some law faculty are unwilling to be associated with it. All my best, Jennifer

I was asked to review a piece for Columbia Law Review.

"Revolutions succeed when the soldiers refuse to fire."

--Someone, probably apocryphally

Does anyone know whether this saves any energy? Meaning, does this prevent google from *running* AI queries, or does it only prevent the results from displaying?

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

I think it's pretty easy to write an exam that separates the responses into three broad categories, but many traditional issue-spotters fail at that, IMO.

It's much harder to measure or justify finer gradations.

Rather, the concern appears to be that extra time may be being used in ways that don't serve students with disabilities.

OTOH, there's also a link to a prior study finding that "extended time often helps students regardless of their disability status."

The press release that you linked to describes a plan for future research. The researcher's expressed concerns about "unintended negative consequences, such as ... excessively rechecking answers, or becoming distracted" are not specific to students w/o a disorder that routinely triggers extra time.

I've always done this, and I considered it a universal accommodation for most reasons for extra-time accommodations, but the disability office insisted on rigid extra-time rules.

I'm probably going back to shorter, in-class exams anyway b/c of LLMs.

The only bad fruit is papaya. (Yes, including durian.) Have you ever had a Ranier cherry?

"jazz hands OCR" <3

You say it stole the work, but you're the one who asked it to do this.

Does Wired think this is a joke? Reading the article, it has a jokey vibe. But that's no excuse! A joke is how the "homintern" conspiracy started.

For Wired to run this as a cover story is bizarre at any time, in my view, and at this particular historical moment wildly irresponsible

We can all wait in line together until ICE blows through their slush fund.

Fair enough.

The people making the decisions are *choosing* incompetence for multiple reasons, including profit.

Even if it had been completely, truly inadvertent, "who profited?" is equivalent to "who has been unjustly enriched by this wrong?" Because someone absolutely got paid to imprison her all that time.

I don't think that makes the question irrelevant. It's like the colloquy over whether an insane caseload is an adequate excuse for a government lawyer who missed a court order, when it's the government's own actions that created the caseload and they could have easily prepared for it.

It seems relevant to me. There are a lot of people profiting off running prisons and concentration camps, which means cowardice, malice, and incompetence aren't the only explanations for running up the numbers and dragging out detentions.

Jheronimus Bosch and the music of hell. Part 1/3: The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music In recent years, a story about a detail in Jheronimus Bosch’s painting of 1495–1505, The Garden of Earthly Delights, has been repeatedly told: that a sinner on the hell panel of the triptych has re…

This led me to an interesting discussion: