The President of the United States

It must be a requirement of all higher ed admins to be the type of person who treats everything faculty do with suspcion. Just once in my career I’d like to have a conversation with a campus leader who doesn’t approach every new effort with hostility or like they’re trying to investigate a crime.

When your belief system is a hammer, everything is a nail.

Do not bring iced coffee to an interview. Ask them where their coffee machine is, and when they tell you it's broken, stare at it deeply for 90 seconds, hit it precisely in its weak spot, and then use the now-working machine to make coffee for everyone, demonstrating that you are a team player.

ChatGPT with the latest model. The image fakery has improved exponentially.

This came to me in a vision last night, and the irony of my using AI to make it is not lost on me.

As someone who was a high school senior 25 years ago and has had my entire adult life defined by post-9/11 bullshit, I’m not *at all* looking forward to the endless, performative hot takes tomorrow.

I had no idea! I guess this will be the rabbit hole I go down tonight.

I’m sorry, what fresh hell is this?

I know that AI-apocalypticism is the flip side of AI-utopianism, the two sides united in thinking this is the most important tech in the world of utterly transformative importance. And I know that a lot of us on here are allergic to both sides of that, me very much included. 1

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Liberals say that our democracy is in a death spiral. They're wrong—our republic is in a death spiral.

Dr. Pepper is a woman and a department chair. She makes 90% less than Mr. Pibb, the newly hired football coach.

When you visit my class in a couple of weeks, lead with this.