ericthing can happen on halloween

Just heard that @upcolorado.bsky.social has this collection in stock! If you’re in #highered & interested in how the spaces we work in shape our teaching, administration, and community engagement, I hope you’ll check it out! Discount code’s good till the Nov pub date. upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...

The @tennesseelookout.com is a proud member of the Tennessee Press Association and as a TPA board member, I am proud of our role in bringing this forum to life. Thanks to @mtsuofficial.bsky.social for its enthusiasm and professionalism.

I am just learning this right now

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

The American mind cannot process a vehicle that is not designed to kill as many pedestrian children as possible

scrib doon for what

Straight in my cultural analytics syllabus!

Whatever the worst thing you can imagine being done with AI is, it turns out it's actually happening futurism.com/artificial-i...

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

An aside to this is to understand that critical reads or imagination allow us to project intention on to pretty much anything... but there *is* ultimately a "thing" there. And some kinds of interpretation is ultimately more honest, more brave, and probably more true than others.

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

Are you telling me an object oriented this ontology

An update on what undergraduate men at the University of Chicago, admitted at twice the rate of women to craft a male-majority class, are doing with that numerical superiority:

A haunted house where you’re responsible for networking all the smart home devices.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

sunday shokupan

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: how is the skinnypocalypse showing up in your own life, outside of media? What kinds of changes have you noticed in body politics in your own friends/family/coworkers/neighbors/self?

Dey see me rollin' from such great heights.

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.

this is very funny

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

my inner voice telling me not to go to sleep just yet there is one more thing to ponder

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

Was pleasantly reminded of this thread of mine today; might be useful for some of you girls

I’m teaching Alexander Weheliye’s “Desiring Machines in Black Popular Music” today and he just . . . tweeted it out.

UPDATE: Within minutes of Monday's Nashville Antichrist lecture ending, sources had sent Eli Motycka full-length transcripts and recordings of the event. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons https://theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-billion-seasons-1819569446/

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ https://theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-peter-thiel-launches-startup-called-frodo-but-evil/

Cortado my beloved (blackberry for scale).