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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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Rizzo the Rat and Pepe the King Prawn in a holiday scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025

Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

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What would we have to see for us to not take the "soaring cost" of higher ed talking point at face value? How many data points do we need? How many years of tuition freezes at UW? We could have a sensible discussion about college costs around levels, but we can't even get the delta stuff right.

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today. Thank you.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

South Carolina's criminal code sentences a rapist to 30 years for rape, but if SC's new S 323 becomes law, it'd sentence a woman to death for getting an abortion

Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐

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@openargs.bsky.social

How have I not seen anyone say Opening Arguments?

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.

Here are some of his beautiful shots.

More maps book makers! Our maps book series is demanding to expand even faster. Cities taken: CLE, DET, Cincy, Columbus, PGH, CHI, Madison, MPLS, DC, Boston. Still lots of cities open! Cartographers can tackle them themselves or team up with an editor.

Street View image of post office

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At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

CHOTINER: And you said you’ve had trouble sleeping.

ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything.

CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed…

ME: Hold on just a second.

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

A colleague made an inspiring point earlier today: The work of social scientists may never be more important. Whatever the current administration destroys doesn't just provide a chance to rebuild, but a blank slate to build something better. There's a lot of important work to do.

The Muppet Beaker looks like..

..this iPhone.

the muppets as iphones: thread

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Education Dept. to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, Affecting Hundreds of Colleges The Trump administration argued that such grants are discriminatory “by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.”

From victorerikray.bsky.social in ASR: ‘Threats to the organizational hierarchy…the hiring or promotion of non-Whites, affirmative action policies, or diversity programs are often seen as illegitimate intrusions into the normal, meritocratic, neutral functioning of organizations (Moore & Bell 2011)’

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.

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If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.