My block is discussing starting a book group called the Buff Muff Club and when I stop laughing I will sign up.
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My block is discussing starting a book group called the Buff Muff Club and when I stop laughing I will sign up.
@emily-elliott.bsky.social shares the rewards and drawbacks of working on an edited volume, offering advice geared toward early career scholars and academic-adjacent workers considering whether to brave the process of editing a collection. #FeedingTheElephant @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social
Statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump’s Illegal War on Iran “President Trump is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the United States. This is a reckless abuse of power that puts both innocent civilians and American lives on the line for a conflict the American people do not want. “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability. Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.
“We know who will bear the cost of this decision: innocent civilians caught in the crossfire and our young service members sent into harm’s way. This is the devastating human toll of another regime-change war. Already, children and families are paying with their lives. There is no moral or strategic justification for this bloodshed. “The American people are exhausted by endless wars built on false promises and paid for with American and foreign lives. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority. We must vote immediately on the War Powers resolution authored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. This unlawful operation must end immediately."
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
The most important hospital in Minnesota isn’t Mayo, it’s HCMC. Oppressed people statewide end up as economic refugees in Minneapolis, where HCMC is the hospital of last resort. If you’ve seen “The Pitt,” HCMC is our version of that. Their people care about you when nobody else will
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
A reminder that Minnesota as a whole sends more revenue to the federal government than it gets back, and on a per capita basis Minnesotans contribute more revenue to the federal government than residents of almost every other state in the nation.
www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-u-...
we should stop saying "self-deporting" and start saying "fleeing government-sponsored ethnic cleansing," imo. we don't need to let the fascists set the linguistic terms here.
That makes me ask fast enough for what? Harm is already happening so we must respond (and some countries and institutions are), even if the response at this moment is slower than the technology.
I’ve begun reading this article about risk management and regulation of AI. It looks at other high risk industries for models even as it acknowledges the differences with AI. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The @aupresses.bsky.social Journals Committee (including me) have organised a Hangout - Let's Talk About…The Impact of AI on University Presses, Thurs 3/5 at 12p EST.
Please do some along if you are a member!
I usually learn more from finding & fixing my mistakes than from training. I also learn how to ask better questions by doing the work, and don’t we need to know the questions/prompts to use AI effectively?
Where is (is there?) the sweet spot between doing the work & leveraging the tool (AI)?
He has definitely said that! A few very smart people in publishing have said this to me over the years, now that I think about it. (I was thinking of Michael Zeoli when I wrote that post.)
Some articles say AI is resulting in humans having to have too much information to process. (I wonder what % is junk? Half?) Isn’t overload referenced at every point in technological leaps? Seems to me that humans have infinite capacity to adapt and regulate the system, given enough time.
“Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation.” arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
A very smart person in publishing once told me friction offers opportunity (folks will pay someone else to solve the friction). I think friction is also where learning happens. Maybe we don’t want AI to solve all the things—because we need to develop that knowledge for ourselves.
“AI will undoubtedly accelerate learning—but accelerated learning is not the same as development. Acceleration increases output; development transforms identity. The two are not interchangeable.” hbr.org/2025/12/ai-i...
I’m interested in learning more about what happens to human learning when AI is used in different ways. Also about the use of AI with different human learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile & hand writing).
Reading about AI and I continually come back to learning by doing tasks. Not just how to do the thing, but other, contextual insights that are gained by doing the task. A machine might do something faster, but how do we learn and develop knowledge when we don’t do the work?
“Watchfulness is the most dangerous form of resistance because it obstructs the T regime’s project of habituation. Fascism works by making the extreme normal.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
Minneapolis uterus havers: if you’re bleeding out of cycle and wondering why, it’s the tear gas. Really, it does that
Important. There has not been a deescalation.
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Still seeing lots of posts eagerly talking about all the fun stuff that's gonna happen when ICE comes to Philly. Here's what's gonna happen: families will get torn apart, entire neighborhoods will be terrorized, people will be blinded and maimed. That's a guarantee. Stop rooting for it.
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
This reminds of a quote I saw online, that the reason ADHD appeared to disappear in adulthood is that men outsourced their executive function issues to their secretaries and wives, and ouch
(and ADHD women were either undiagnosed or burnt out by trying to compensate without support)
Thanks Mark. I keep saying there are more of us than there are of them, and that we’ll outlast them, but that’s cold comfort when people are being kidnapped and murdered.