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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 29/09/2026

Pushing faculty to use AI for grading or chatbots for office hours isn’t innovation. It’s symptomatic of a corporatizing-higher-ed trend that has saddled instructors with more TPS reports every year while cutting resources that allow us to give students a better experience. Tech to solve self-owns.

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Office Space: That Would Be Great

ALT: Office Space: That Would Be Great

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 28/09/2026

Fascist aesthetic everywhere.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/09/2026

Area Rolling Stone Writer Discovers Older People Stop Discovering New Music Organically

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 24/09/2026

Goddamn 2026 has been just banger after banger from U2 (after a pretty long spell of music I liked but didn’t love). The lyrics plus the use of Spanish language/cultural vibe across the album …. they are not being shy about what this album is about lol.

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U2 - Silencio

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 23/09/2026

Every semester as I am passing out the first exam in my intro course, I make the joke, "Do not sweat this test. I took it for practice last night and got a B+" Class I'm giving it to tomorrow doesn't much do the collective laughter at my jokes and I'm debating the ills of that joke falling flat. 😂

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The reporting illustrates the point - the falsity has been refuted. Even Dan Patrick admits it’s not true, just a parody. Voters can judge him for being a creepy weirdo AI slopagandist. @jeremylittau.com and I wrote about the problems with these laws. www.techdirt.com/2024/05/23/t...

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The First Amendment Gives You The Right To Lie, Even With AI

While the celebrity-driven allure of the Scarlett Johansson voicealike story might be an easier headline grab, it is in the dark arts of election dirty trickery where you’re more likely to find the…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this feels like a prompt to write a novel

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 18/09/2026

I've been collecting AI chat app video and still ads for my class next spring. Nothing often surprises me anymore about the Internet but I am still finding myself stunned at how blatant and cynical they are in targeting men with really fucked-up views of companionship and love.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 17/09/2026

The data-driven poll coverage of the U.S. elections keeps telling me the House is a toss up, but it feels so detached from the visceral feeling I get when I have to pay $62 to put 13 gallons of gas in my car. Most I’d ever paid before was $54 (2 months ago) and it was at most $44 in the Biden era.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 16/09/2026

I do most of our family's shopping and I can't think of a time in the last 20 years that I have seen beef at less than $2/lb. On sale maybe $3.50 a few times, but that was the artery-clogging fat ratio that RFK Jr. loves.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 16/09/2026

Clearly the changes were a poor business strategy. The only way this makes sense is if you consider billionaire control of these cultural megaphones to be a loss leader for their ideological and business interests, but to my eyes it’s the correct read. This is a rounding error with a big payoff.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/09/2026

setting aside all that really matters, painting a meme of yourself to commemorate the day the meme was created is very Baudrillard

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 10/09/2026

Either it's mental health impulse buying or my midlife crisis must be here, because I saw a sale on yard power tools and bought three that I've been pining for. I'm gonna chainsaw everything (but it's battery powered so it's Good For The Earth).

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 10/09/2026

I’m teaching a seminar on Black Mirror and living in a tech/AI world this coming spring, and I really need these rich fools to stop adding to my course reading list.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As someone who used Mac for design long before there even was an Apple cult, I guarantee you that Apple could release a phone with a running chainsaw attached to it and they would sell 8 trillion of them

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 09/09/2026

This thing sold out in minutes and I had a chance to preorder one so I grabbed it, because if I want it later it's going for over $1500 on places like eBay. The thing is so beautiful. I may decide to cancel it but having the option was too good to pass up.

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Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 09/09/2026

Well that Ocarina Of Time remake for Switch 2 looks gorgeous.

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani has been oddly silent on whether LSU should be permitted to remain in the SEC

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 08/09/2026

For whatever reason, this year's COVID booster hit me a bit harder with the joint aching. But ....

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're in the us open, it seems like there'd be nothing stopping you from just reaching out there and grabbing the serve instead of returning it and running away. like i get it, it would probably destroy your career, but still. free tennis ball

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 07/09/2026

Take me down To the Classes On Labor Day City Where attendance is light And the parking is plenty

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You are not the tallest person on bluesky

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 04/09/2026

Access to *any newsmaker* puts a journalist “in the position” to make money they wouldn’t without access! For better AND worse (cultivating sources is part of the game), that’s how journalism works. “Using taxpayer money” to court outlets is a charge you could make against ANY public official.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 01/09/2026

ESPN’s AI bot gave my fantasy football draft an A grade even though I drafted by text message at the beach, so AI is Good Now.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/08/2026

My first day at Lehigh, 17 years ago today (and the last day I wore a freaking TIE to work, what was I thinking???).

me sitting at a desk grinning like a guy who'd just gotten his PHD (which is true)

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/08/2026

Pour one out for the man whose character unexpectedly died in the 1986 movie (due to a cynical attempt by Hasbro to refresh the toy line) and traumatized an entire generation of Xers. Like, there were kids crying in the theater. How could they kill such a tremendous voice?

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Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in ‘Transformers,’ Dies at 85

The theater-trained Canadian also created sounds for King Kong and the Predator and portrayed Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh's pal.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 24/08/2026

"Be curious, not judgmental" That's a quote from the Apple TV+ show "Ted Lasso" that I've been thinking about lot about the past months as I've come off of medical leave and returned to work (nb: Lasso attributed it to Walt Whitman but Whitman to anyone's knowledge never said or wrote that). ...

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Ted Lasso Season 1 - The Dart Game Scene - Be Curious, Not Judgmental - Walt Whitman

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Academic: It depends

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21/08/2026

The thing about AI is that I bought a new mailbox from an online retailer two months ago after our old one broke, and now its algorithm has decided I am a mailbox enthusiast because it is sending me marketing emails about mailboxes 3x a day.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 15/08/2026

When all things are viral, nothing is viral.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 09/08/2026

Family game night last night featured an intense argument over whether a chalupa is a sandwich. They are all wrong.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 06/08/2026

Aw man. He's been battling for a while so it's not unexpected. He's the best (and I won't forget the stand he took this summer on the Pride Night debacle).

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

GOOD PARENTING RIGHT HERE,!!

A kid says his favorite band in public enemy and draws a picture of them

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This makes sense to me This is good

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 04/08/2026

While on leave I did get caught up on some some AppleTV+ shows I hadn't yet indulged. Some good (really enjoying Silo) and some so bad I found myself hate watching (The Last Thing He Told Me, which has a good cast but whose characters have to be some of the dumbest people alive).

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 30/07/2026

My tween was tripped out to stumble across this AI of fake toddlers singing a Katseye song (think KidzBop but somehow worse) and now I play it for her just to troll her. Swear to god I might play this the first day of fall semester as students file in.

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KATSEYE × ILLIT × LE SSERAFIM - ICONIC BY MISTAKE | Nursurreal Ver (Color Coded Lyrics)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The now 11 year old does this all the time. When he was 5 he learned to play chess at school and got overly upset when he lost, so we had some talks about sportsmanship. Then he presented me with a mixed up Rubiks Cube and said, "since grown ups like losing so much, here's a game for you."

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That would be @jeremylittau.com and I was unprepared for the volume of Alf hog

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