BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
New life goal unlocked.
I’m so happy to be a part of the Den! ❤️
Keeping my fingers crossed that this one has a lick of sense. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
It’s a good thing! It means they’re not super inflamed.
You don’t need to give it up completely. I still go barefoot a ton, I just give it a break when it flares up.
Hands off our city, jagoff
Chicago forever
… heads it off.
Seconding the other mention for shoes with at least a back strap and good cushioning. Flip flops and ballet flats for more than one day in a row will set me off.
And wear shoes inside the house for awhile. The more support they have until they calm down, the better.
Use a frozen water bottle, a regular soup can, or even a golf ball and gently roll your feet over it. As you get more comfortable, you’ll learn when you can apply more pressure.
I’m highly prone to PF and have to be on my feet all day. If it starts to flare, a couple of days of rolling usually…
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Be safe! ❤️
Holy hell. This is incredible! ❤️
I’m so sorry, Julie. Sending all the hugs.
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.
No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
Rick Perry and the rest of the amazing artists popped off this season! Holy wow!!
I keep banging this drum at school.
Capital Stitch Company over on Etsy and IG. She's pretty great!
Hi, Howie! ❤️
Just did this and it took maybe 5 minutes.
It absolutely counts! It’s gorgeous!
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
I wrote about how, at a moment where so much insane shit is happening and so many people are trying to deny it, writing it down is a radical act: dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Shit. Fingers crossed for a quick visit. 🤞🏻
Done. Critter Hug engaged!
We've got you. Take care of you and yours. ❤️
