Nice.

Cool viz, if not extremely worrisome.

Our Center website is one of 15m sites in Google's C4 data set that is training Google's T5 and Facebook's LLaMA LLMs. So this does mean I'll be able to chat with these models about my own research? 😉
washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

Texas bill moving through the state legislature will ban tenure after Sept 1, 2023.
documentcloud.org/documents/2377…

Here we go.
chronicle.com/article/agains…

Check out the new Florida state bill destined to hit DeSantis' desk. Faculty hiring will be consolidated by the Boards and not require faculty input; post-tenure review can be initiated by Boards whenever they feel like it for whatever reason.

😂They're kidding, right? SHOWTIME (now merged with @Paramount which merged with @ParamountPlus) has announced several new shows.
Billions: Miami (crypto rich), Billions: London (UK rich), Millions (millennial rich), Trillions (real rich).

The Gilead-like changes DeSantis is forcing on FL schools is shocking but not surprising. Yet, the College Board decision to alter the AP Black History exam in a bow to DeSantis is both shocking AND surprising. Get ready Florida colleagues-tenure is next. nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/…

Is your school rushing to hold webinars about what faculty can do about the chatGPT “threat?” As we discuss how disruptive this new tech will be, let’s remember it wasn’t so long ago that computers themselves were seen as a threat…

(Hat tip to hardmaru)

We're looking at a tough holiday season for a lot of consumers.

Tells you how my mood is these days...

Times are changing. Longtime org chem prof (retired from Princeton and teaching at NYU), fired after a petition circulated that his class was “ too hard.” Aren't we all facing these sorts of challenges (thanks social media!) in the classroom these days?
nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/…

Heh.

Hilarious! Warner Brothers Discovery new CEO skipped the lectures on market segmentation & two-sample Z tests. Meanwhile, I'm still REALLY miffed they dumped Beforeigners before we could finish season two. Monsters - they don't get streaming. I predict complete & utter failure.

Interesting. GW admin supported him (certainly more than they supported student & faculty after he voted against a woman's constitutional right to abortion). Maybe thought of campus protests, plus Jan 6 mulling over a Ginni subpoena gave him pause.
washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

Doesn’t say how survey results will be used. Far-fetched to wonder if admin will affix red stars or blue stars on faculty office doors? How about colored armbands? Cardinal rule of market research - don’t collect data you aren’t going to use… thehill.com/changing-ameri…

Monkeypox found on campus.

thehill.com/policy/healthc…