Melissa Johnson, PhD

The Lepore interview boils down to her saying that despite better pay, research support, & resources than 99.9% of historians working today, she wanted to quit because some students - whom she barely has to teach given the low load - were too woke. These are not the advocates the discipline needs!

Students complained to my husband about not getting the classes they wanted.

He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.

They said yes

He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's

I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.

“The students best prepared to evaluate AI output could very well be the ones not with specialized AI training but with deep domain knowledge in the disciplines. This, of course, is exactly the kind of knowledge and skills that colleges have been trying to nurture for centuries."

Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.

“Self-styled experts are racing to generate checklists, frameworks, and guidance for the knowledge and skills to productively use AI. When educators rush to publish the skills of technology literacy before they actually have evidence about what those skills are, things can go very poorly”

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate The courtroom often resembles an assembly line, with many cases taking less than five minutes.

This story is *outside the paywall*, thanks in part to a grant from the good folks at @poynterinstitute.bsky.social.

www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

MUPPET KNIVES OUT

I'm so full of envy rn

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

I think I’m also mad that I mostly keep seeing it referred to only as misogyny

which it obviously is! he told a professional to shut up just for doing her job!

but if you stop at “he insulted a woman” without going any further into the insult he chose and why, you’re leaving a key piece out

Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax Intuit has struck a $100 million-plus deal with OpenAI to bring AI into its financial products like TurboTax and QuickBooks.

Do not under any circumstance link your financial data with ChatGPT and DEFINITELY don’t take its tax advice.

man we should bring back the pamphlet

This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

I despise 18th century primary sources. I need someone else to read them for me

Yes some. I want more!

It's almost like basic humanistic research skills have value...

Someone write this book so I can read it

In all seriousness, it's absolutely astounding that we still haven't reached the nadir. I couldn't have anticipated these two particular moments, honestly. And in all likelihood, there is still worse to come.

I'm so tired.

Have them explain their laundry routine, step by step.

Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc being the only human character in a film of Muppets is, and I’m trying not to be dramatic here, the reason cinema was invented in the first place!

just realized my cats probably think I spend 10 hours a day in the garage

AI is great for speeding certain processes up. It's a good tool for those who already have decades of domain expertise. But the race to bring AI into our world is sure to produce the most uncreative and unimaginative generation in the history of human evolution.

I think I understand, deeply, what goes into this kind of sentence. Research, analysis, craft — this is a sentence where it all meets. This is just masterful.

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Bessent's not only hiding these docs, he bizarrely claimed Treasury has no role investigating them at all. It’s a lie. It's impossible someone with his background doesn’t know about Treasury's extensive role investigating the kinds of financial crimes Epstein must have been committing.

What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.