Appreciate the work the Kernel is doing here.

I am so very tired. So very, very tired.

Honestly trying to figure out whether the reason I see Ellul everywhere is because I’m excited about a new scholar I’ve discovered or because his ideas are so well suited for the current moment. “We can be a leader or we can be left behind” captures the opt-in determinism of Ellul’s technique so dang well. Of course, how the heck am I going to keep expressing concern about AI (through an Ellulian lens or otherwise) if the university has already decided that we’re all getting on board?

Good reporting from the Kernel on a really disappointing set of changes at the university.

5,000 cameras?! What the heck?

The effect on university budgets is among the least objectionable parts of the Big Beautiful Bill, and it’s still devastating.

I don’t have the whole picture here, and I don’t like passing judgment without having the whole picture, but I don’t know if I like this.

So far, we’ve been told that the General Assembly’s war on DEI doesn’t affect our classroom teaching. Is this legislative bluster, or do we have worries on the horizon?

NIH funding is an important part of my employer’s budget, so I think this kind of advocacy is important. However, it rubs me the wrong way that we’re speaking up publicly about potential funding cuts and being largely silent and “well, gotta follow the law” when our marginalized students are being targeted.

This project is one of my favorite things to come out of the program I teach in, and I’m glad Meghan’s work is getting recognition!