I think Jensen had the right idea at #ParisNice today 🤿 😂 #Plowright
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I think Jensen had the right idea at #ParisNice today 🤿 😂 #Plowright
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
Why isn't anyone quietly replacing Trump's shoes overnight with larger ones? Every night, they grow half a size. He can't understand it. Asks his entourage. No no, they say, gesturing at their gaping heel space and blister plasters. That's how everyone's wearing them now. You're so fashionable.
"whose work it surfaces" oof that language, what a tell, no responsibility, no autonomy, implying the words and work were covered, obscured, just waiting to be "surfaced" by some unseen hand or force and not a conscious choice by the makers of this product
Way to add insult to injury
I found it for anyone who missed this beauty.
THIS IS THE BEST INTERVIEW YOU WILL EVER SEE!!
#TirenoAdratico
He basically says "It's OK that uninformed 20-year-olds who never applied for a grant or reviewed one were making the decisions to cancel these outright, you see, because we read books."
The lawyer asks: "Which books?"
"Oh, there were no books."
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
Very good news.
That #ParisNice stage had tragedy and comedy
‘Publicly available’ = stolen.
Professors have ‘fans’? Ugh.
The scene: a tiny office somewhere in Whitehall; several grey suited government officials in a state of some stress.
‘How can we possibly distract everyone from the release of the Mandelson papers?’
A hand is raised…
‘What about badgers on banknotes?’
Plowright polar bear in Arlington, Texas
"work it surfaces" is certainly one way to describe nonconsenually scraping work and using it to train an AI agent to scramble it up, vomit up some wild nonsense, and then attribute it to real professional humans with years of experience in a way that implies they agreed to be used that way.
Email screenshot: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces. The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard."
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
The age of improv jazz international politics
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.
INCROYABLE PAUL SEIXAS QUI TERMINE 2E DES STRADE BIANCHE ! Pour sa 1re participation, le Français (19 ans) de la Decathlon-CMA CGM s'intercale sur le podium entre Tadej Pogacar et Isaac Del Toro. Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United) est 4e. #StradeBianche
Robyn, that was phenomenal 🤩
Went right down to the final corner
OH MY GOD ELISE CHABBEY WINS AN INCREDIBLE EDITION OF STRADE BIANCHE DONNE !!!!
every 5 seconds I thought someone new was gonna win
This is a RACE #stradebianche
not the chasing group going the wrong way at strade bianche donne omg
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
move slow and repair things
I'm so sorry to hear this, Kate. Thinking of you xx
The Bookseller comment piece title: Are your books unintentionally alienating readers?
Poets!
What’s your costume for World Book Day this year? I’m going as a Generative AI Subsidiary Content Aggregation Addendum to an already one-sided academic publishing contract
