Eric Hayot

Subject of my current book...going to be about 60k words tho.

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.

The author affiliations caught my eye... seven of the fourteen authors have a variant of information/library.
#AI #skybrarians #academicsky

some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures

sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways

Arsenal also didn't score a single goal in Ligue 1 or the Bundesliga this year...

Great and useful answer--the spending would have to then be disaggregated into support for research (= keeping the universities afloat), indirect class mobility support and citizenship pathways, medical... and then just the weapons etc. But--super useful followup--thank you.

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Mine neither. But all this would have to be thought about against the fact that govt expenditure as a %age of GDP in the US at least is higher today than at any point since WW2 (source: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONG...). How do we put that together with the reality that you're describing?

This isn't just a theory, it's a clear and accurate description of (1) what has actually happened and (2) the stated intentions of those who made it happen ("drown the government in the bathtub" etc.)!

A transcript of a text message exchange between me and a spammer. The spammer writes: "Beautiful day! I'm Kelly from PrideStaff, will you be receptive to new employment?" I respond: "would you be receptive to fucking off?" Kelly responds "Sure"; I respond "Great--thank you! have a good day." Kelly: "You too."

The emotional whirlwind of responding to spammers:

As CalState and Ohio St. say they're going to integrate AI into every aspect of the class experience to prepare students for the future, companies are telling applicants you can't use AI when you apply. Tell me how the lurch towards AI makes sense. fortune.com/2025/06/11/g...

Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

FYC

This is so important. Please read. I have been doing blue book exams and in class writing in my 150 person intro to pol theory class for the last couple of years, and it has worked really well. However…

Lol came across this having just watched the footage and wanted to say that all those shots of you and your family being so happy also made me cry!

In the postgame interview they asked him if he scored it and he said he didn't know...

Yes, and then clearly off Shaw! Unless he got another touch right before it went in, which I didn't see on any replays

To me it looked like he didn't touch it at all. Which would mean Spurs won with 2 shots, 0 on target.

I have a colleague like this; no matter what new thing is happening it's either already happened in the medieval period, or has always been happening. Down with knee-jerk historicism! Down with knee-jerk neophilia!

They plop their massive, polluting data centers into black neighborhoods

They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function

The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics

That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people

Also a pretty useful list of course ideas!

It's good to see someone at the Decanal level fixing the problem the right way: by encouraging/soliciting from the faculty (who are excited about teaching) a wide variety of potential solutions to the enrollment/engagement problem.

Nothing hugely new, but concerted institutional effort matters.

The coin is termed, indeed.

Urging everyone who can, and who cares about universities and the humanities, to donate to the MLA Paving the Way fund, which specifically supports lawsuits vs. the administration's policies.

How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

much has been said about the NYT's framing of the growth of the government-university research complex as a story of higher ed "dependency" on government

it's a silly and ahistorical way to characterize a carefully thought out national strategy, one imagined by

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Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years:

Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM.

Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

Pretty sure the real reason the Trump administration doesn't want to bring people back from El Salvador is that their return is subject to a 25 percent tariff.

This is (1) hilarious and (2) a bit of light in dark times.

Also, something something Tariff of Nottingham

This was also the period of the first three red cards and the Merino shoulder injury, which meant that the entire back half of the team was under immense stress (also, Ode out towards the end of that time).

Given that PLUS the 2025 forward crisis = Arteta AND THE TEAM are doing an incredible job.

I think one of the things people are forgetting in the second-half of the season forward injury crisis is that we also had a DEFENSIVE injury crisis in the first half of the season, resulting in many games where Partey played right back.

Why not both?

Right. I see it now. Thanks.