Michael Yarbrough (he/him)

It was a take your Xanax to work kind of day

Maya Alperin Advances National Work on Inclusive Admissions  – CUNY School of Law Alperin is helping to set national standards for how inclusion is understood and operationalized across legal education.

Law faculty often get all the credit in legal education but at @cunylaw.bsky.social it is our amazing administrators who are committed to equity and inclusion, and setting standards at the national level - like Maya Alperin.

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My hill to die on is that "River" is a Christmas song and one of the very best at that.

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell - River (Official Music Video)

A little beauty.

Joni Mitchell's "River"❄️

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I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm.

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

Um mapa interessante.

Between cheating students, AI-hyping administrators, and political demagogues, pretty much everyone out there is telling educators that our life's work is totally worthless.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."

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Lovely Erykah Badu concert last night for the 25th anniversary of her Mama's Gun album

Law, Race and Decolonisation: A video and essay teaching resource Videos and related essays

This is a blog post that contains a curated playlist of movies, documentaries and television programmes for teaching "law, race and decolonisation" that I curated for BoB. The resources are grouped thematically, and also the post also includes further reading.

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You misspelled "the obvious and literal meaning of the constitution"

Well at least when they use AI to write about an article that doesn't exist you can stop there without agonizing about how to grade it

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

So the frame you're going with on this one is deadpan literalism?

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

"Demeaning" trans people is exactly right. Their goal--and what they're most able to easily achieve--is our humiliation. The imposition of indignities. They also hope that, as humiliations often do, it exposes us to ridicule. Perhaps even violence. (e.g. forcibly outing people on their IDs).

I admit I could never have been an old time union or socialist organizer because they faced literally impossible odds and yet often maintained themes of inevitable victory for years on end. And sometimes won!

Academic freedom is applicable to anyone with a teaching role. You can’t ask graduate students to teach, advise students, and evaluate student work with granting them academic freedom. The recent debacle at OU and a previous one in the School of Social Work at UT Austin illustrate this.

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.

THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.

This time, though, if they affirm the Administration's legal representation, they're saying the President can decide to void all jurisprudence on his own accord, without prior findings by the Court, because Trump's people are saying he can just decide the 14th means what he thinks it means.

I repeat: I relate to Carol in Pluribus more than I have ever related to any character in any show ever

Remarkable how Trump’s anti-black racism is both text and subtext, an animating principle for his entire life, and that his government is stocked with white supremacists and Nazis, yet elite media consensus still very much tip-toes around this, and the opposition deems it all a distraction.

Doctors could create simple checklists listing all vaccinations that new parents should make sure their children have to keep them as healthy as possible. Make copies and keep them in waiting rooms across the country.

There's a full-blown cheating crisis in higher education around the globe, and apparently the only people doing anything about it are individual faculty in our own classes. It's madness.

A friend of mine caught about 20 students all using ChatGPT for in class exams. It is a crisis.

yes!

There’s a full blown cheating crisis in just about every sector rn - politics, law, tech - and not too many ppl doing anything about it. And it’s not just driven by AI - it’s a push against rules based orders.

There's a full-blown cheating crisis in higher education around the globe, and apparently the only people doing anything about it are individual faculty in our own classes. It's madness.