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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

As opposed to, say, the dozens of studies with frightening shit like: "after controlling for a large set of student, teacher & school characteristics, even small daily amounts (here, 30 min) of use of digital devices in these classrooms are negatively related to scores on reading comprehension test"

once in a blue moon, when you are still but half-awake, getting ready for work in a stupor, the stark truth of history comes flashing back into your consciousness:

we once had a hit song that mentioned "lovely lady lumps"

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I'm performatively liminal, which means I'm standing on a cliff going "OOOOH MAYBE I'LL JUMP, MAYBE I'M A REPRESENTATION OF CROSSING A THRESHOLD THAT CANNOT BE UNCROSSED, OOOOOOH"

When students get to college they generally don’t know what college is and that’s an incredible pedagogical opportunity. My freshman comp class did Morrison, Pope, Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Johnny Cash all swirled together in a frenzy of discovery. Education is what we make it.

Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.

"The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus."

Deliberate deliteracy.

This is not a fire drill, unless you mean that in the “Fahrenheit 451” sense. In which case, you’re right, that’s precisely what it is.

Abstract The writing classroom has been dramatically affected by the introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Facing immense pressure to adapt to a challenging and changing educational landscape, some writing instructors have chosen to adopt LLMs as a teaching tool. However, perceiving this technology as a potential "partner" in the writing process involves various problematic assumptions about chatbot capabilities. For one, it requires a certain degree of confidence in LLMs, which are incapable of understanding information and produce output conforming to the Frankfurtian definition of "bullshit." While some scholars have suggested chatbot interactions may still be educational in a fictional capacity, this argument presumes that students understand the limits of AI veracity, and it is inconsistent with the way LLMs are actively marketed as trustworthy personas, despite their tendency to "hallucinate." Given the current abundance of misleading AI hype and marketing, this essay argues that using LLMs in the writing classroom may be counterproductive to students' development as writers and thinkers. As such, writing educators are invited to challenge the popular narrative of AI techno-determinism and embrace their power to steer this technology's course in higher education.

My conference paper "Imaginary Friend or Foe? Examining the Pitfalls of an AI Writing Partner" is finally published in the CEA Critic! In it, I tackle some of the problematic assumptions about AI and discuss why LLMs may be counterproductive for writing pedagogy. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Left to right: Book cover for Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss by Michael Schumacher (Painting in muted blues of a steamship cruising under the banner “Eastland.” The image is pitched sharply downward, suggesting peril.); book cover for Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher (watercolor rendering of large ship on stormy grey seas. Coral-colored strip across the vertical middle, with title in white all-caps, and subtitle and author at bottom.); and at right, text against black background: BOOK SALE: On the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. University of Minnesota Press logo at bottom right.

Eye-opening books on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975, and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. Select titles now 30% off with code MN94100.
www.upress.umn.edu/collection-h...

It's so good! It's so fun to teach! I can't wait to do it again next semester!!

NYT: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Truth they're hiding: A leaked internal memo from The New York Times revealed that editors instructed journalists covering Gaza to avoid or strictly limit certain words and phrases. Words like "slaughter," "massacre," and "carnage" were among those flagged. The document also advised journalists to avoid terms such as "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," "occupied territory," and "Palestine," except in narrow legal or historical contexts. It discouraged describing Gaza's "refugee camps" as such, suggesting they be referred to as neighborhoods instead.

"We seek truth and help people better understand the world."

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

What??? I knew there was one in Phoenix but not that they were an empire!

YouTube video by Tucson Foodie Gordo's Mexicateria Commercial - It's Time - Rodeo

here's another deeply confusing variant: youtu.be/SNwSykE2bns?...

i am very sad that i cannot find a pre-Y2K golf n stuff commercial with the original song, but there are so many vintage gordo's commercials online, and if you like chimichangas, i mean, if you really like chimichangas....

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

I explained the concept of “a band” to my music loving child, and they said they want to be in a band. When I asked what they would call their band, they IMMEDIATELY said, “Rainbows for Grandma,” so I guess they’ve found their calling??

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

10/10 take. No notes.

A pacifist baguette

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.