Lizzie K.

you're never gonna believe the item that thing drops

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

Stanford has not always conducted itself honorably as an institution, but I am daily awed by the levels of principle and commitment that exist among our students.

i say "we are not gonna make it fam" out loud like three times a day

idk how anyone's getting anything done with "we're all gonna die aaaaaaa" level headlines dropping daily with no end in sight

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

Tweet of the year

if anyone does this to me I will haunt you in ways that they wouldn’t even let you make a movie about

University suspends EBF, Kairos after Title VI investigations The University will suspend the co-op statuses of both houses, finding them in violation of Title VI, a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.

so zionists and white males count as protected groups here coolcoolcoolcoolcool stanforddaily.com/2025/07/22/u...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

specifically

as an alum I got an email from the prez claiming otherwise on this particular point but uhhh not reassuring

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

liberal arts education RETVRN

Google search ai needs to answer for its crimes

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Oh good

Hard agree

I’ve been very dismissive of claims of “chatbot-induced” mental health crises in the past. The more I try to gauge how it works—and how people tend to use it—the more I see how someone young and confused, someone who doesn’t think they’re very bright or is unsure of their own perceptions of reality

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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i love reading about pseudonymous pseudoscience psychos i really do

Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!

every few months for the last couple years I’ve been going to cancel my NYT subscription only to find it’s cheaper to bundle the paper with the recipes and games than pay for them separately. they have me in a chokehold with that damn bee and their lemony miso beans

I don’t like his smarmy little face

We’re hiring at Princeton on AI and society, working with Arvind Narayanan or me depending on fit.

I think current AI developments are all a huge deal but am very unexcited by current state of the AGI and/or AI safety discourse.

Please share as you see fit.

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

my partner saw that tweet and bought me that radmission and i use it every day!!!