Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Narrator voice: her experience in professional wrestling in no way qualifies her to pass educational judgement on anything. 000
Reposted by Adam Kaisermancmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29490485
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Historians: what is a graphic “novel” or comic book that you think passes muster as history? I’m not looking for memoir here. #comics #graphicnovels #history 120
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The future is not imposed upon us by the Hand of God or even the hands of Silicon Valley. We all make the future happen. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Took my son to see David Byrne at the Hollywood Bowl last night. He described it as the best night of his life. 130
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As a refusnik, I don‘t love everything in the report but this is fire: 🔥 110
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 24/08/2026While idiotic, we should ignore this latest disaster and continue to talk about Natalie Harp, which is the story he doesn’t want to talk about. Stay focused and don’t let him control the media narrative. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Old enough to be president and apparently old enough to run a presidency. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 18/08/2026AI is an anti-social technology. No one wants the slop, but it oozes over society nonetheless. People want to do an AI, they don’t want to get an AI. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Ditching Canvas this semester and looking for an AI-free, private alternatives to Google products, chiefly Drive and Docs. Any suggestions? 022
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I didn’t know that the World Cup final also included a WWF component. #worldcup 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026“Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”hedgehogreview.comArtificial NegligenceFaculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete. 03612
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 19/07/2026To state the obvious, this third place game is crazy. #worldcup 011
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’d like to think it’s my overwhelming support that got them through. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Now that the US, Mexico, and Canada are out, I will be routing for Argentina (over my late Chilean mother’s objections) in honor of my Argentinian aunt. It’s only logical. 000
Reposted by Adam KaisermanAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn... 35722288
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Among many taken today at LACMA’s block party event. 010
Reposted by Adam KaisermanJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/ 7455241988
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026One of the biggest things I’ve learned as a college professor is to be on guard of those with ambition. Everything they do is “for the students” or for “equity” but it is really all for them. 130
Reposted by Adam KaisermanKate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Future dystopian sci-fi has imagined things like nuclear wastelands, sure. Totalitarian oppression, climate catastrophe, sure. But rarely has it imagined today's real horror of AI making stupid and annoying people 100x worse. 15733113
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Grades are in, autoreply to email has been activated, so bring on summer. (Note: Summer may include fall prep and major automotive repairs). 100
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Grades are done but not in. My hair is the same color but I did (and I’m not joking) see some of it fall out while grading. I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 020
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Although I am an AI abolitionist, as an educator I am exposed to a lot of AI slop and I worry what this exposure is doing to my brain. 030
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Arguing by meme really helps people feel heard and respected. It’s the most persuasive approach. 100
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Half way there. Three down, three to go. 200 odd assignments to grade before Tuesday. Some of my hair is still brown. 010
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I’m behind on the reading but is this play basically Homeric fanfic? Reading The Odyssey now in prep for the film and the comparison is not favorable to Shakespeare. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 05/06/2026One class graded and for the history books, five more to go. 010
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 02/06/2026“In 2026, many major social media platforms feel icky because we are in the full throes of the third stage of enshittification” Ah! The third stage of enshittification. I remember reading about you in Hesiod’s Works and Days! 040
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The deal to end the war In Iran is looking a lot like infrastructure week. Or Waiting for Godot. 020
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026How did I get my Canvas to do list from 400+ down to 89 this weekend? By neglecting my wife and child, that’s how! 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I’m now starter pack famous. Add to the CV? Does that count as a professional organization? 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It's not just ___, it's also ______. 🔫 #aigrading 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Fare ye well manuscript. May peer reviewer 2 be ever kind and merciful. 010
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Canvas is down! Liberté, égalité, fraternité!!! 0305
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 06/05/2026We learn to write in college but we also write to learn across the curriculum. The fact that so few get how learning works is its own crisis. 000
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 05/05/2026In their search to lessen antidepressant use one thing that MAHA scientists have yet to consider: making the news less depressing.nytimes.comKennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants 010
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 04/05/2026@schiff.senate.gov. I would call your office to tell you this but no one has picked up in the last two years. Students don’t need to learn AI skills. It’s a consumer facing product that’s meant to be easy to use. Any idiot can use AI and we know this because every idiot is already using it. 170
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I think it’s fair to say that the only person in Europe who can rely on Washington is Vladimir Putin. 021
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Everyone I heard on CNN last night sounded like they were about to work for the Ellisons soon. But then again, maybe that wasn’t much of a departure. 000
Reposted by Adam KaisermanEmily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026In which I ask concerned American Jews to ask themselves what it is they really want (for @forward.com) forward.com/opinion/8210...forward.comAmerican Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurtPiker's popularity is a clear sign that we must adjust our tactics for fighting antisemitism — not double down on condemnation 9469
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 14/04/2026J. D. Vance getting kicked out of the Catholic Church on the eve of publishing book about how he converted to Catholicism would be the funniest thing. The pope should do it for the comedy value alone. 020
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I was cautious around the Ides of March and read Julius Caesar last month. 100