If you haven't already, join me in wishing our colleague and comrade @rcolesworthy.bsky.social—truly the very best of us—a happy birthday, won't you?

We don't actually need to keep showing our throats to the tech bros.

Worth reading, if you haven't yet: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-....

The Most Moral Army | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The only correct stance for any scholarly press to be taking on its own or its authors' potential use of genAI is "lol, no."

Yeah, I know. I'm like, wtf; I did not sign off on this.

University websites have become basically unnavigable. I spent 30 minutes the other day trying to find direct contact info for a fairly prominent prof in Australia. It was not in any of what you or I might think were the logical spots.

Done. Thank you.

The stance every scholarly press *should* be taking on LLMs is an unqualified "fuck no," of course. But we'll undoubtedly see more presses than we would like being more tolerant of them than we would like, though I don't think many will sink to Routledge's depths.

I was having a conversation about this on Twitter, and now know that Minnesota and Lever are among these publishers. If you know of others, feel free to chime in—we should probably get a list going.

Lolsob, as we used to say