Angela H.

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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Nothing has me playing the lottery in the hopes of early retirement more than AI cheating. And given everything else that’s happening in higher ed, that’s telling about the toll it takes.

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

It has replaced the library.

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well put.

How would this measure critical thinking?

We should stop using the term "translating" when we are talking about what automatic translation systems can do. What they do is processing texts (to try and replicate it using words from a different language). Translating is a human ability.

If you're in London, check out Breaking the (G)loom, the only event that pokes at (p)doom and references the original luddites all in one title. *Also* wish I could make this one

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"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

What are your favorite films that feature or explore or interrogate London (in a narrow or broad sense)?

What if we got this kind of Big Energy for the National Endowment for the Humanities so that all the fired staff, terminated grants, and cancelled programs were reinstated? Hmm hmm? #NEH

Education is more than job training.

Total relief

How am I sitting here weeping at the deaths of soldiers at Troy? Alice Oswald is how. Memorial is a stunning poem.

AAUP-OSU Statement on Academic Freedom and Responsibility AAUP-OSU clarifies the relationship between academic freedom and responsibility.

Firings, sanctions, bans, threats, chilling of speech… OSU AAUP laying out and standing up for the essence of academic freedom and responsibility @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.aaup-osu.org/post/aaup-os...

Reading Jane Austen in the 21st Century with Patricia A. Matthew | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

I talked about editing Austen for Penguin w/ @folger.edu

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Katie Fallow from @knightcolumbia.org said the new policy is part of “the Trump administration’s broader assault on free speech and press freedom.”

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.

If a dude offered to help you write crappy memos and essays, and you found out they were also helping children kill themselves, would you keep working with that dude?

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

When someone scratches your back just the way you like
Perfectly ripe tomato slices with salt
Cozy bookstores
When a neighborhood cat comes to greet you while you’re on a walk
When 2 neighborhood cats come to greet you while you’re on a walk

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it.

At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.

make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

Swift Removal of Academic Leaders at Texas A&M Signals the Death of Academic Freedom in the State, Warns PEN America - PEN America Texas A&M purge over a student complaint sparks outcry over political interference in classrooms and suffocates free speech.

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.

This! People are really out here saying we should invent assignments where students generate AI writing and then have them point out the made-up quotes and sources and/or point out how the writing works in patterns of 3, etc. To what end?? It doesn’t help them learn to write or to handle sources.

Well said.