Reminder: there are a few more days to submit an abstract for the 50th anniversary NVSA conference on "The Twentieth Century"(!!)! Boston, April 4-6. nvsa.org/wp-content/u...

Salomon’s Waffle House

Give us the macaw!!!

The juxtaposition of the MOOC stuff and the "back to the classrooms" COVID stuff remains one of the most [redacted]

There's a paper/panel here if anyone hated themselves enough. Trump's racist snake poem, McRaven's awful Afghanistan thing, the weird Tennyson details in the Romney book...

The question that faculty in 2024 should be asking is not, “How do we stop our students from using AI?” The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”

Hhypervisible.bsky.socialSep 18, 2024 9:00pm

OpenAI also said “it will host a meeting in October with presidents and provosts of leading higher education institutions to discuss how to adopt AI effectively and responsibly in a university setting, including for teaching and advancing academic research.” 😩

OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools

(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI has hired former Coursera Inc. executive Leah Belsky to be its first general manager of education, leading the artificial intelligence startup’s efforts to bring its products to ...

Pride > Emma > Persuasion > Northanger > Mansfield > Sense I think but only 1 and 2 really stay in place

Feel like it's a little bit of the "human race unifies against alien invaders" trope though—everyday on Bluesky the main character is Twitter?

Last precisely because of its (brilliant) middlebrow parody of the prestige show!