one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

Report: Music’s Power To Unite, Heal Down 74% https://theonion.com/report-musics-power-to-unite-heal-down-74/

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice.

Give it a read:

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Someone sent me this.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This is so good and I have been meaning to share it but have also been sick since October.

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Wild that institutions that have condemned generations of students to insurmountable debt don’t hesitate to do other unethical things for money!

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

Tremendously honored that luminary writer and generous person, @paullisicky.bsky.social has included Sounds Like Titanic in his list about music as self-invention. If you have not yet ordered his new book on Joni Mitchell you are missing out!

Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.

When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.

My students write about so many hard things they've lived through. We talk a lot in class about "bad for life, good for writing." I love this beautiful tribute to the opposite.