Lori Not Laura or Laurie
@lorimmiller.bsky.social
I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc.
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Excellent thread... 🧵👇🏼📜
Making our traditional Thanksgiving meal: spiced cranberry compote, turkey for spouse & Bearkitten, roasted brussels sprouts, the green bean casserole, & my grandpa's mashed potatoes which involve a whole container of French onion dip whipped in. Toasted pecan pie & port for dessert. And y'all 🙂?
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Making our traditional Thanksgiving meal: spiced cranberry compote, turkey for spouse & Bearkitten, roasted brussels sprouts, the green bean casserole, & my grandpa's mashed potatoes which involve a whole container of French onion dip whipped in. Toasted pecan pie & port for dessert. And y'all 🙂?
I've made the cranberry compote & am now working on the pecan pie. I have a recipe I love (from Sheila Lukins's USA Cookbook), but I toast the pecans first. Just burned the first batch, so it's a good thing I bought extra! Also, the pie has bourbon in it instead of vanilla extract.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I've made the cranberry compote & am now working on the pecan pie. I have a recipe I love (from Sheila Lukins's USA Cookbook), but I toast the pecans first. Just burned the first batch, so it's a good thing I bought extra! Also, the pie has bourbon in it instead of vanilla extract.
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No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
Are the people of Louisiana - one of the poorest and worst performing states in the nation on every metric - going to be paying him $54 million?
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?
Now THIS is how you news dump.
Now THIS is how you news dump.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
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University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
University of Kentucky among nation’s 1st institutions to partner with Microsoft on responsible AI innovation
The University of Kentucky and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Comm...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
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You can tell it's an AI recipe if the personal backstory is really insipid
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
You can tell it's an AI recipe if the personal backstory is really insipid
We rented a decrepit Edwardian house from spouse's employer the first year we lived in KY. Drove by today for the first time in forever; it's now a luxury Airbnb with a pickleball court. Spent a while gawking at the interior pics and remembering when we'd hear squirrels in the walls & other horrors.
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
We rented a decrepit Edwardian house from spouse's employer the first year we lived in KY. Drove by today for the first time in forever; it's now a luxury Airbnb with a pickleball court. Spent a while gawking at the interior pics and remembering when we'd hear squirrels in the walls & other horrors.
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We got 1.45" of rain yesterday and into the early morning. We were greeted with this ethereal cloud cover upon waking today! #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We got 1.45" of rain yesterday and into the early morning. We were greeted with this ethereal cloud cover upon waking today! #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
Most of the time when I see a drab-backed bird from a distance hopping around in our yard, it's something like a robin. Today, however, it was a female flicker! And then another female flicker showed up & they chased each other round a tree! Teeny moment of happiness on a gray November day.
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Most of the time when I see a drab-backed bird from a distance hopping around in our yard, it's something like a robin. Today, however, it was a female flicker! And then another female flicker showed up & they chased each other round a tree! Teeny moment of happiness on a gray November day.
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
I chanced upon r/cheese and have learned that fancy cheese in a can is a Whole Thing? Cougar Gold cheese from Washington State University? I'm sort of intrigued.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I chanced upon r/cheese and have learned that fancy cheese in a can is a Whole Thing? Cougar Gold cheese from Washington State University? I'm sort of intrigued.
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Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
Opposite of my Mom in so many ways (e.g., uh, geopolitical worldview) but alike in some other weird ones. We both brush our teeth in one bathroom but do hair/any makeup in a different one in the house. What is time, even?
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Opposite of my Mom in so many ways (e.g., uh, geopolitical worldview) but alike in some other weird ones. We both brush our teeth in one bathroom but do hair/any makeup in a different one in the house. What is time, even?
I have the day off for Veterans Day, and my to-do list is approximately 30 items long.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I have the day off for Veterans Day, and my to-do list is approximately 30 items long.
Got stranded at the Atlanta airport last night & was lucky enough to secure a hotel. Tried to explain to the cab driver who took me to the hotel what the Democrats were fighting for/holding out for (ACA subsidies). I wonder if he is thinking tonight that what he was hearing from me was crazy talk.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Got stranded at the Atlanta airport last night & was lucky enough to secure a hotel. Tried to explain to the cab driver who took me to the hotel what the Democrats were fighting for/holding out for (ACA subsidies). I wonder if he is thinking tonight that what he was hearing from me was crazy talk.
Nooooooo! Le big sigh; tied game.
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Nooooooo! Le big sigh; tied game.
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Lots of sea turtles along the coast in the St Pete / Clearwater area this month in addition to all the rays. There are sea turtles along the coast here all year, but I've been seeing a lot more than usual lately. Most are 100-400 feet from shore. #nature #animals #awesome #ocean #turtle #wildlife
October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We're going to a bat walk next week! 🦇 This is exciting! I can't be trusted to make ticket arrangements when I'm tired, though - because I thought I saw this was happening tomorrow night, and it was only when I got the email that I realized my mistake.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
We're going to a bat walk next week! 🦇 This is exciting! I can't be trusted to make ticket arrangements when I'm tired, though - because I thought I saw this was happening tomorrow night, and it was only when I got the email that I realized my mistake.
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not just useless - they're profoundly stupid, confusing (weak) correlation for causation, when there's plenty of actual data & insights they could have used instead
I'm not sure anything has epitomized AI for me more than the MLB playoffs commercials featuring completely useless stats. @keithlaw.bsky.social @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
not just useless - they're profoundly stupid, confusing (weak) correlation for causation, when there's plenty of actual data & insights they could have used instead
I see that my heretofore foolproof rule of not partaking in postseason baseball - unless the team I'm rooting for is up by at least 3 runs - has failed me. Mariners fans, that home run was my fault because now my not listening produces the opposite effect.
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I see that my heretofore foolproof rule of not partaking in postseason baseball - unless the team I'm rooting for is up by at least 3 runs - has failed me. Mariners fans, that home run was my fault because now my not listening produces the opposite effect.
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May the Debbie Allen Barbie watch over us all.
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
May the Debbie Allen Barbie watch over us all.