Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026T-shirt worn by the village idiot in the beloved Canadian show Corner Gas 000
Reposted by Jim Kosmicki🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters 29432
Reposted by Jim KosmickiJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/08/2026I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵 50822158
Reposted by Jim KosmickiIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will tooyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.comExplosive foodborne outbreakIt's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you. 141078460
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I've taught composition for too long - i completely recognize that style from dozens of student papers - the great content steal continues. This one is probably from Docs at a Google school 040
Reposted by Jim Kosmickisirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026the problem is that AI cannot generate new ideas or new solutions. For that you need to be able to think. 0219
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not enough of the books were more interesting than the books they replaced. If they had started with the best 4 and then grown the line (giving the creators enough time to fully develop their books) then maybe. That's what they did much better with the Epic line 010
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Why i am thankful i don't teach any classes that need quizzes anymore 010
Reposted by Jim KosmickiCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 05/07/2026Skill sets students should acquire: - think critically and evaluate lines of evidence - write and present creatively and professionally - negotiation, collaboration and healthy group dynamics - what Computer can/can’t/should/shouldn’t do - domain expertise - when/how to post vs. touch grass 1033669
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The knee high mnemonic related to dry land farming, not modern irrigated highly fertilized corn 100
Reposted by Jim KosmickiLauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 04/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... 492097456
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Anyone who has done committee work recognizes this 020
Reposted by Jim KosmickiJD Eames @jdeames.com · 02/07/2026bell hooks book sales went up thx to JD Vance. Gift article NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/b...nytimes.comHow JD Vance’s New Book Helped Put bell hooks Back on the Best-Seller List 04412
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 02/07/2026More significantly, based on history, even if AI collapses, those prices will never come back down 0110
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Lee Enterprises did this in Nebraska years ago - Waren Buffet sold them the newspapers he had bought because "he loved newspapers" 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Popeye made money - it just wasn't a big enough profit for a movie that had to satisfy two studios 020
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I was an HBO kid in the 80's - there were movies you saw all the time during their run on that platform - it's what was on 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Disney had success adapting Fleischman's "Blackbeard's Ghost" i believe previously to this one 010
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I loved Sid Fleischman's books, but have never seen this adaptation 110
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Chesler's secong go round publishing comics were always good looking 010
Reposted by Jim KosmickiChronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 22/06/2026Readers react to Tyler Jagt's essay, "My Students Can't Read." chroni.cl/43Qb1dDchroni.clOpinion | How Bad Is the Student Reading Crisis, Really?Readers react to Tyler Jagt’s essay, “My Students Can’t Read.” 063
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My cardiologist wouldn't recognize me for anything. My heart doctor is the PA, whom I literally trust with my life. Stop fixating on the degree and pay attention to the level of care received 100
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I tell my students that peer response is to give them a context for their own writing/response - to see how their peers responded to the same writing scenario. And to reinforce that there's always a potential audience beyond your primary reader - i.e. the teacher 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 17/06/2026F you - i've done them all - what I haven't done is the bullshit idiocy you have done - i know what science and roadkill are and how to handle them appropriately 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I can delete any streaming app from my Roku as far as I know - i have been okay with Fox pulling away from Hulu, as I am not going to subscribe to a Fox owned streamer - FoxONE i think it's called 020
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 16/06/2026They will do mandatory updates that break the older ones - that's tech bro 101 070
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Grilled peanut butter or pb&j are great sandwiches too 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Where I live, we have Asian and Latin markets that have better quality spices at such reasonable prices. But you have to be willing to shop at a store where the primary language is not English, so most of the community remains clueless that they even exist 010
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 15/06/2026We have a heavy immigrant population in my community - it is well known around here 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I loved teaching this book. Many of my students finally saw their community in a book, and we would have good discussion about what I called prose poetry. 530
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It never was. It may have LINKED to a source, but Google itself was not the source. I used to browbeat this into my research writing students. We don't even talk about Google since the shift to AI summaries 110
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It is so easy for the actual blood glucose reduction purpose of GLPs to get lost in the weight loss hype. My doctors are insistent on me using Ozempic for its positive effects on heart health, with anything else a bonus 161
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 06/06/2026You don't have to ask that question about business, finance or economics now, do we? 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I remember RJR - but knew about LH from Corner Gas 000
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It is also not conducive to best writing practices 110
Jim Kosmicki @jkosmicki.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Hey now! At least you got to where the document was, and it opened something - that's a win for Sharepoint 010
