Eric Hayot

something something complex joke about aerodynamics of the V formation...

"I went through partners like shit through a, well, me, I guess..."

Ooh ooh... is the answer to the physician one "a shaman"? Or is that unfair to shamans?

This is actually a fun game. Every school bus driver needs to identify a person who has had their driver's license revoked they admire... Every optician needs to identify a naked mole rat they admire...

Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/

Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...

Higher ed drives economic growth and innovation, and it’s under attack. Read the new op-ed from @paulakrebs.bsky.social‬ and @ehayot.bsky.social‬ and tell your legislators that research, teaching, and innovation are important to you and your community. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

There's even great data on this, despite all the talking points & revealed preferences of everyone, including many university leaders, for participating in the collective societal push to convince parents & students that the liberal arts are bad choices for students' career & salary prospects.

He might but pretty sure the bit would have thousands proposing to you, so, even-steven.

I need AI glasses to tell me what your AI glasses are doing.

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)

back up now, weirdly. Maybe Eze broke it.

@poorlydrawnarsenal.com do you know if something has gone wrong with the Arsenal Catch-Up feed? Somehow it's blank for me after working for months...

I will say that Nelson Weiper has absolutely KILLED for me in multiple iterations of Football Manager--fully endorse this move!

But where are you going to get your steel, Adrian? WHERE????

Playing around with some graphics.

thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!

thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

"Each of the last seasons." Not "last season," about which I would have had no complaints.

This would be interesting and the kind of thing written by a smart person if it weren't simply wrong. Arsenal league points in 20-21, 61; 21-22, 69; 22-23, 84; 23-24, 89; 24-25, 74.

Unless maybe "Each of the last seasons" means something else in your language. :-)

What's especially frustrating (but sadly typical, in the new normal) is that the U of Chicago doing this (as with things done by Penn, Columbia, Brown) basically gives a permission structure for all other universities to follow suit.

Like you, sick to my stomach about what this means.

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.

Federal Net Outlays as Percent of Gross Domestic Product Federal Net Outlays as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

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?