I can only stay mad at my students for so long for stealing their classmates' work and running it through LLM-based auto-thesaurus-ers, when this is the kind of shit that is happening at the largest, most prestigious journals in the entire academy. I just… This shit is so deeply, darkly systemic.
"Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific jrnls, ldg to 1000s of retractions and millions of $ in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-yo publisher,...which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 jrnls, some of which were infected by lg-scale rsch fraud."
Wiley will announce that it will shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud.
www.wsj.com(William Jackson Harper, too, but that goes without saying)
I hope that Kristen Bell and D'Arcy Carden in particular are having a really great day.
(the death urge is capitalism-called-freedom)
No, but for real: I'm seriously worried that there is some kind of species-wide death urge that is way too likely to sweep all of us up with it, and it is legit terrifying.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
I'm a huge fan of the whole journey
Did you know @theebikinikill.bsky.social are a) on here (kind of), and b) on bandcamp? It's true!
bikinikill.bandcamp.com/music
Bikini Kill is a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia, WA and Washington DC, forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997. Kathleen Hanna sang, Tobi Vail played drums, Billy Karren (aka Billy Bored...
bikinikill.bandcamp.comthis is their skateboarding
Rewatching The Good Place, for my comforting
Unrestrained Summer Fun www.reuters.com/world/europe...
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
www.reuters.comThat's genuinely wild to me. Like genuinely just off-the-wall-wild. Like I just don't understand what's good about dealing with people or situations that way
Yeah, that's a whole other level of problem with teachers' mentality folding way too closely into cop shit, but I promise at any school, in most every department, there are professors who are actively trying to keep away from that garbage, and just deal with students as real people
Or you could… not lie to marianne? And just talk about what you actually care about and find interesting? Or you could, i dunno, defend tony? And try to get everybody to leave them alone? I dunno, there's just so many different ways to approach this than as a competition or a battlefield.
That's the thing tho: you're spending money on it, right? Your money or the money of someone who loves you. So why not take things you actually give a shit about, and engage with them in a way that benefits you?
Seriously: what are you trying to get out of school besides "a job," because that shit is the capitalist hellscape lying to you to keep you in the grind
Talking new ideas with new people is very fun, yes. Been one of my favourite things since I was like 5 years old
If you can't find fun in "watch a movie and then shoot the shit about it" maybe go reevaluate a lot more basic shit than whether or not to be in that class.
Seems like no, not right now.
You want… "unity"… "togetherness"… & "diversity of thought"… so you close… the offices… Of *DIVERSITY*… *EQUITY*… & *INCLUSION*… & hire *COPS*.
Words mean nothing to the right. No words have value or consistency of intent, all are merely empty ciphers, and y'all KEEP LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT
UNC trustees voted this morning to reallocate the university's $2.3 million DEI budget to campus police.
Budget vice chair: “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination. We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of diversity, equity and inclusion funding to public safety and campus law enforcement
www.wunc.org
You want… "unity"… "togetherness"… and "diversity of thought"… so you close… the offices… Of *DIVERSITY*… *EQUITY*… and *INCLUSION*…
Words mean nothing to the right. They have no value or consistency of intent. All words are merely empty ciphers to them, and y'all KEEP LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT
UNC trustees voted this morning to reallocate the university's $2.3 million DEI budget to campus police.
Budget vice chair: “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination. We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of diversity, equity and inclusion funding to public safety and campus law enforcement
www.wunc.orgAlways remember that this was avoidable, predictable, and predictED; it was never inevitable
Well that's it for Google and for huge swathes of the internet as we know it. RIP
wapo.st/3WDpAi8 🎁
The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites
wapo.st
There are people alive right bow who are already cyborgs. They're called disabled people, and thwy are the model for what a cyborg was always intended to be
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5396
Hey bsky, why are nude figure sketches still getting labeled as "adult content?"
William Rimmer's Art Anatomy is both a good, clear guide to how musculature works on different body types I've had around for forever & also gross in a This Dude Probably Believed In Phrenology In A Race Science Way kind of way. Worth a cheap used copy or download for the variations in build, imo
Thank you, as always 🖤
1) You ALMOST got it, but you missed a component. Not a step, mind you; a component.
2) but where's the fun in that?
ALL VOTES CLOSED. The voters have chosen: Donnie Darko!
And where does this path Lead?
—> PRINCE OF PERSIA??? OH NO!
*video game death noises*
Now: Who can tell us how we got here?
So I Married An Axe Murderer —> Empire Records —> The Craft —> Scream —> ??
1)—> Ravenous?
2)—> Donnie Darko?
One hour remains; Vote Below!
We'll call that a vote for ravenous, then
I'm not happy it happened, but it's definitely shaped my attitudes around death and learning how to accept and integrate it. And yeah, I'm super hopeful about this too
So I Married An Axe Murderer —> Empire Records —> The Craft —> Scream —> ??
1)—> Ravenous?
2)—> Donnie Darko?
One hour remains; Vote Below!
Yeah. It is one of the most brutal cancers
I'm so sorry. You can release yourself of that. The cancer took her, and you were a child. You did nothing wrong, and she would be so glad to know you're still here.
Something you may or may not know about me is that my first experience with death was when my grandmother died of glioblastoma just before I turned 7.
This research isn't dispositive, but even the results they've seen so far constitute utterly amazing news.
ufhealth.org/news/2024/uf...
In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune…
ufhealth.orgIf you s/t on "taxonomies of magic in 'AI'" and don't at the very least mention @bvlsingler.bsky.social @jaarboss.bsky.social and a few others I cite with great regularity— even if only to say you're *Not* doing what they've extensively done— then I'm side-eying you hard. Just putting that out there
(it's not breakfast because five hours since you last ate, three of which were spent sleeping, is not a fast.)
Yup. I've basically moved to the ungrading model, myself, but they get antsy without the regular checks
Cool. Grades are in and feel genuinely, deeply shitty about at least three situations involved. Great. Time to go eat food again, I guess.
genuinely sad about this
down to the damn wire waiting for a student to just please ask for an incomplete