Bitter Professor

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

They aren't really targeting professors in Texas, are they?

Me:

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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Caring teachers are the real influencers.

They aren't exactly ideal physical specimens of the warrior ethos, are they?

He speaks the truth

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Elementary school teachers when they hear 6-7

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Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

"We'll smash the fucking window out and drag him out"

ICE and violence.

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Me on 1 October

Nothing says your faculty is under stress more than a student noting that more than one of your colleagues makes the same jokes as you do about potentially "getting fired for what I'm about to say."

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Every time someone says, "I used ChatGPT to help with this," I immediately assume they suck.

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I saw where someone on Facebook called an African-American a 'jigaboo'. So I reported the comment. Facebook determined that it doesn't violate their community standards.

Educators fired after posting about Charlie Kirk allege in lawsuits that their free speech rights were violated Several teachers filed federal lawsuits after allegedly being fired over private social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

More lawsuits from fired educators.

abcnews.go.com/US/educators...

Actually, today it is on the syllabus.

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“On the syllabus”
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@readthesyllabus.bsky.social

Professor, Can I have an extension on my paper? I didn't write it because I was expecting to be raptured.

A Texas Legislator bragging that his X feed caused a state school to suppress speech is awesome to see in the wild.

@AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says A law professor at West Point has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Military Academy, saying it violates the First Amendment by banning professors' opinions in the classroom and restricting certain boo...

Because it is

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My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant and I turned out to be a bitter professor.

2025 List of Worst Law School Subjects to Teach in Order of their Lack of Existence:

1. Public International Law
2. Constitutional Law
3. Administrative Law
4. Immigration Law
5. Antitrust Law

Before you object, note I deliberately added the word LAW.

Apparently Trump isn't the only one who always chickens out. #Disney #TACO

Jimmy Kimmel and freedom of speech have won today. But the fight isn't over yet.

Death be not proud. Or dignified.