Kevin Kilroy

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PhD candidate in rhet/comp; wandering adjunct instructor of writing and literature. Sometimes poet; erstwhile drummer; infrequent skier and traveler; too-frequent MTG player and TV watcher. he/him/his. Avatar photo of me eating a dessert bun in Hong Kong; header photo of Grimsey in Iceland.
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Good on Dontrelle for reminding Wayne that the Liberty literally just won the championship, and therefore a NY team has in fact won a championship more recently than 2012. #mets #appletv
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This is the face of an asshole who disappeared into the basement at a time that made us incredibly worried that she actually ran outside and spent all night outside and is now just pleased as punch with her small payback for all the food and shelter we foist upon her
AI companies should 'recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward (freely licensed or otherwise). They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation.' https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

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Getting back into this public writing thing. In response to a recent IHE article on trust and faith in higher education: https://kevinmkilroy.medium.com/trust-and-faith-in-higher-education-d7935162835d
Trust and Faith in Higher Education - Kevin Kilroy - Medium

Inside Higher Ed reports today that recent pro-Palestine protests on college campuses has “further undermined public trust in higher education”, according to a SimpsonScarborough survey. Primarily…

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I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj

Billionaire-to-oligarch replacer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Billionaire-to-oligarch replacer for Firefox. Replaces all instances of “billionaire” with “oligarch”.

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