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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/u.s.-news-lhl4uphvz/-/a-5OTvigaFSnOtYhAV1ZvdHg%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0 Pictured in this story: Old Queens, which top management moved out of to a more fortified location after a 2014 sit-in protesting Condi Rice as commencement speaker forced her to back out

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  nationwide Canvas outage thanks to ransomware attack. It's ironic, you see, because Canvas is, in its essence, itself a ransomware attack on higher education

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  Wary of Second-Home Tax, New York's Wealthy Turn to AI with Concerns About Having More Babies

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  Thanks to John Thompson's Book Wars, I even know what BookBub is. My 2013 monograph, misfiled under its series title, could be your "next read" for cheap!

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  the backlist is not dead but sleepeth

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  wile-e-coyote-looking-down moment on papers here for me. Yo, software engineers: congratulations on a technical achievement fully comparable to the invention of fracking

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  Sora, generate a black comedy combining nuclear annihilation and paranoia about impure substances entering the body; include a mad inventor running loose in the military-industrial complex

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  president of my university really outdoing himself here. "The deficit is a social construct." https://www.dailytargum.com/article/targum-exclusive-president-tate-talks-deficit-path-forward-for-inclusion-rutgers-edge-20260504

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  Spare a thought for the everything-is-bayesian-updating people. Once champions of smug-probability-knowing, now out-smugged by purveyors of it-just-works! brute-force maximum likelihood estimation

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  obviously it's just engagement bait, but presenting a list of 100 novels as "the greatest literature" is indeed…symptomatic. Perhaps they would enjoy this slide I made for my intro students

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  jfc all I want to do is buy some socks

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  excellent (neo-)institutionalist explanation of university management herd-following from moocs to llms: Actually look at who the bozos are signaling to and why https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/what-does-ai-do

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  Victory for CFU-UAW! NYU's non-tenure-track faculty voted 553-72 for the union. Those are the numbers we like to see. This is a nationally significant victory for the fastest-growing category of faculty in the US—and for all who care about the quality of higher education. There is power in a union! #solidarity https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/new-york-universitys-non-tenure-faculty-elect-union-in-uaw-win

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  +1 to implication that literacy is the very heart of the LLMatter: “The number that I am interested in is something like ‘How many words of normal business English per day can a manager read and check for accuracy and sense, without their mind wandering and without going mad?’” https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-most-important-number