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The increased reliance on print texts from the "pre-LLM era" for model training is objectively NOT good for health/medical topics, BTW. It would be better to have vetted and trustworthy "AI"-free contemporary scholarship now, rather than rely on rapidly out-of-date "pre-LLM era" input data.

Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.

“These findings spotlight the enormous breadth with which the Trump admin is trying to shake down institutions of higher education," said Hank Reichman, AAUP Committee on College & University Governance member who co-authored the report. @hankreichman.bsky.social 3

The report finds that in dozens of cases, the people who were supposed to stop this type of federal overreach — university boards & administrations — failed to protect academic independence. Most trustees & admin "have at best been caught flat-footed & some have welcomed governmental intrusion." 2

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

Finding pure words like it's pre-atomic steel

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

Hopefully the Wilson-Nolan convo shows us all that translation is a deeply human, creative expertise as is filmmaking and we would want neither to be outsourced to AI.

I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I’m looking for video of an ad from my childhood, late 70’s to early 80’s. It’s a Popeye’s ad with footage of the Immaculate Reception and Franco Harris running into a restaurant followed by a crowd of people. Any help?

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

"They know this is TV, right??" a CBS News senior staffer texted me about this news. "I hate it here," another CBS reporter said.

Like a potter on an escarpment or a sculptor on a cliff, we are on the precipice of shaping a thing

I’ve yet to read a single word by Beardsley that didn’t sound like ChatGPT management consultant speak. So many words, so little substance. news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

I’m shocked at how many people I met at the produce section of 3 grocery stores I go to that had no idea about cyclospora. Including the staff working there. Now I understand how many people don’t follow politics and have no idea what’s going on.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.