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On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.

talk to me when you’ve stripped all monarchs of their titles, kicked all monarchs out of their houses, and retired the idea of monarchy forever. what year is it?

gonna move next door to JD Vance and only speak Cherokee

My university is forcing all of us faculty to label everything we put on canvas and provide rich, structured descriptions of everything and it’s because of the Trump administration’s high esteem for and normal adherence to the ADA and has nothing at all to do with LLMs needing labeled data.

had been waiting for the 16th floor elevator when some old boomer guy walks up making all the little, "i'm definitely going to start a conversation with you" sounds. anyway, the stairs were nice

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

and all of my parents' friends were aunt or uncle to us kids. practically every Irish immigrant in Detroit was Aunt or Uncle!

my kids call my graduate advisor "Aunt Pam" (no relation).

New open access article! Collaborative work with the wonderful Dana Serditova examining patterning & potential sources of certain local phrasal constructions in New Orleans English - 'by [residence]', 'for [time]', & 'on [temporal deixis]' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

i ought not to have done all three together, jaysus 🧟‍♂️

if cancel culture were real, we'd have forgotten bill maher a decade ago

got flu, covid, and the second shingles shot today, @lecagle.bsky.social !

today the business school reeks of sewage and that seems a little on the nose

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

why are you literally making things up to be mad at andy beshear about? what's that for? who do you imagine you're helping?

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

fun fact: a pruned, discarded branch from a fruit tree IS a fruit tree waiting to happen

idk but i think if you've still got the tattoo probably you don't regret it enough

my old cow cat, Milis, in her preferred cuddle spot on my chest

I wasted so much of my one precious life not having a cat

the shit-bombing video is so stupid , childish, and awful that the news media are just powerless to describe it.

Learn to Code From Zero with Godot Make your family and friends proud. Learn skills in high demand by creating fun toys and games. Finally become a game developer!

ICYDK: Godot, the open-source game creation software used to make Dome Keeper, Cassette Beasts, and Brotato, has a VERY beginner-friendly series of online tutorials here.

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It says it requires absolutely zero prior experience with coding, and it means it.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

you're telling me that a midterm grades this window?

don't let anyone claim that this is an aberration. this is the platform

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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