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one of the saddest ironies of higher ed's headlong embrace of AI is that the clearest and most thorough reporting on the subject has been done almost exclusively by student journalists

those who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

every optometrist has the same line delivery of “1 or 2?”

I'm pretty sure my dog just tried to make me laugh, the beauty of which made me cry

Blue Heron is extraordinary

not a public humanities collective called Enclosure Academy 😭

RIP Benjamin you would have loved and hated the hundreds of selfies taken next to Angelus Novus

obsessed with all the photos of the newest belugas in chicago

every job description is just this now

someone paid for my and my friend’s lunch today and doesn’t everyone love a little cute intrigue now and then instead of the totalizing, world-shattering kind

telling my landlord he can't raise my rent because of zeus's law

berries named after my dog and flowers wrapped in newspaper hate to see me coming

so many things to love about chicago summers, not least the confetti corners

oh ok

is 720 AQI good

the time has come to reveal my new favorite hat

The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/

The AI effect: University of Chicago Law School opts to prohibit electronic devices in some classroomsCome fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.www.chicagotribune.com

Anthropic is hiring a Standards Editor when they could save nearly a third of a million by just letting Claude do it

wonderful first sentence from Juliana Spahr's review of Idris Robinson's latest. look what sentences can do! why would you ever want to give that up to AI?