András Kiséry

Winning elections will only be the beginning of a long struggle.

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As soon as the Gulf stream collapses, Northampton might get cooler as well. A few more years.

You are a virtuous man. If everyone handled their ice cream like you do, we would have hope.

The findings are abt the benefits of eating half a cup if ice cream. Look at your kitchen measuring cups and tell me if you ever ate half a cup. Not half pint, or, more plausibly, half quart. Half cup.
Maybe if it is a cone, not how most people consume their ice cream.

According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.

True, although note that the very language and idea of “learning outcomes” and their itemization is itself consistent with the mechanized box-ticking of administrators that is in turn so receptive to these “technologies”

keep going!!

Happy to discuss more—do you have such a course or are you planning to introduce one?

standalone sections, shared reading list with some flexibility.
I would be very much interested in different versions / lists, finding this a bit too YA adventure-y.

the current shape of the second. They are parts of our list if gen ed offerings, they can fulfil some rubric “versions if creative expression” or some such bs category.

it’s a version of Lit Hum—much less classical, much more global, also for a very non-ivy student population. Popol Vuh, Odyssey, Sundiata, Monkey King aka Journey to the West, bits of 1001 nights, some medieval romance, selections from Dante, Shakespeare is the first semester. I don’t know

I am very pro such courses, even though our own version of it is far from perfect. But as you suggest—if you don’t pitch it as normatively representative of human experience or similar nonsense, it can be a really good thing, and maybe a hope for the resilience of the humanities?

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

On teacher's union sipping the AI Kool-aid …

This is a mf thread 🗣🧵🔥

“we have never been one?”
your name is legion, and you still can’t write

educators HELPED design the curriculum?! helped whom? This is not just complete BS, but open admission of what RW is promoting.

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seems like a lot of it is set to kick in after the midterms. So they hope people won’t notice until after 2026. Which reveals an additional layer of cynicism. Apres 26, le deluge. They have not lost sight of their district’s needs: they just don’t care at all, all they want is keep the job.

Something really important about organizations’ decisions to adopt AI tools which people need to understand is this: it often comes down to a room of a handful of people who are simply uninformed and think it’s just a new norm they’ll be left behind on if they don’t find a use for it in their work.

The first-sale doctrine allows libraries to share books they own *on paper* much more freely than digital copies—which can be encumbered by time limits & riders about what ppl are allowed to do w/ them.

So the intellectual commons we had from the 15c-20c is not guaranteed to continue much longer.+

Usually not, but have you tried finding books published in Beirut lately? Or a book from a tiny press, 1973?
Often you don’t want the book, only know the language or country.
There used to be British books that had a note saying “place of publ London unless otherwise stated.” Could do this with NY.

Yes of course it will usually be ok—but *usually*, just author/title is enough…

Assuming that name of publisher is a., unambiguous b., better than place of publ. or c., even available is based on 2nd half of 20th c or later Anglo-American experience.

The publisher is a person called Thompson—are you looking in London, Boston, Dublin?

There have e.g. been small publishers called “Alpha” in Paris, in Budapest, in Essen, in Köln, in Vernon N.Y., in Barcelona, in Subotica, and elsewhere. When trying to locate a book publ’d by one, the place might b important: what national library might have a copy? Similar for 18th-19th c books:

Loss of info. Makes sense if you only cite relatively recent US / UK / global conglomerate publishers. Makes your citations much less useful if you often cite publications from the “rest of the world.” Those applauding are the first group. Those upset are the second.

the point exactly: makes sense for the centers of publishing, but for the peripheries, it often helps to know where that short-lived publisher was.

It’s great for contemporary publishing where location has become immaterial. (Palgrave published at Cham, CH). In the case of older books, often the reverse would make sense: what do you do with a list of 6 London publishers—where the relevant info is London, as opposed to the Irish reprint.

The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?