On Weds. Mar 11 join Kiowa Hammons, Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communication Services, for an info session on the Bartz v. Anthropic case. If you've published a book in the US, you might be entitled to compensation.
Learn more/register:
https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/events/anthropic
The government does not want you to watch these depositions. They are trying to make us take them down. You be the judge of why: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.
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As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Henry Rollins standing on a stool next to his record collection.
For Henry Rollins, music is the antidote to the "tough haul" of human existence. Today, the punk icon turns 65.
Oh wow, congratulations!!!
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
I for one cannot wait to be represented by @tomperriello.bsky.social instead of the dumbass we have now
I am so sorry. A terrible loss.
Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
Shutter Island
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Bad for students. Bad for instructors. Bad for universities. Good for private equity.
Everyone concerned about this should attend Faculty Senate tomorrow to learn more: uvirginia.trumba.com/senate-meeti...
One Access won’t prevent you from assigning course packs, but your students will be forced to subsidize other students using $400 textbooks within Canvas, with all the surveillance and data gathering concerns that apply. It’s a huge change and there’s been very little discussion so far.
The latter will charge all undergraduate students a flat fee for course materials and may disincentivize low-cost and open access materials. Will be an important topic of discussion at FacSen tomorrow!
I think this is conflating two issues: the digital accessibility requirements that kick in April 2026 (which are frustrating and bureaucratic but serve a worthwhile purpose) and the One Access proposal for course materials being rolled out by the UVA bookstore.
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially "It's not X - it's Y" - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
Gov.-Elect Spanberger Calls On UVA Board of Visitors to Pause Presidential Selection; "As it will be a priority of my administration to stabilize & normalize the leadership of our public colleges & universities, I will make appointments soon after my inauguration." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/gove...
