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I love this! I have clothbound journals going back to Year 1 of grad school where I do the same thing! I do my best thinking with a pen/cil and pad.

🤯 I didn't even know one of my editors had sent the book to Jaron Lanier and I may have almost passed out.

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

I note to my classes how the ramping up of premature death-making policies and institutions, like carceral systems and ICE and the gutting of social programs, coexists with the federal government lamenting declining fertility and reproduction among certain groups, and how they reinforce each other.

Once again failing to motivate myself to do absolutely anything after pressing "approve" on final grades.

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

Roe V. Wade

It’s not that you hold Black women to a higher standard… It’s that you hold yourselves to such a low one

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world. Here’s the argument: At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

This is going to be so useful in class next term. Thank you.

Kashmir has become a dense site of surveillance, where biometric systems, CCTV, and other technologies and policies shape everyday life. Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar speaks with a Kashmiri journalist who describes reporting under continuous monitoring, intimidation, and fear.

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

Oh no. (if you're outside the US, the code also works on their international supplier)

#May4 1970, 4 #KentState students were killed, others injured by Ohio Natl Guard. #OHIOUniversity students went on strike in response, as seen through these photos from our Peter L. Goss Collection. Student strike photos, May 5, 1970 Roll 1a https://bit.ly/ou-goss-1970may #OHIOUniversityArchives

I have yet to regret my @theonion.com subscription

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

The most telling part about this is … they do not allow THEIR kids to use it

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

Public Lecture: “The Responsibility of the Intellectual in a Time of Fascist Genocide” by Dr. Rinaldo Walcott us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Fun fact: In addition to everything else wrong with him, JD Vance and the techno-fascists who like him are the literal embodiment everything I got into my research to unmask and fight against. newrepublic.com/article/1839...

And I also like to add that many folks don’t see this as a big deal. That girl lost much of her immediate family and have her to fall in love with yours and them with her only to restart the grieving process of losing another family is absolutely garbage cause you could’ve simply fucking not.

What the fuck are we doing here

choppelganger | noun | a less attractive version of someone or something

Took a risk and applied for a thing that I am absolutely terrified by. But we need to move in spaces that scare us, or whatever it was that David Bowie said.

We're working to make digitally accessible this phenomenal set of interviews recorded by Donna Smith about LGBTQ people in the South. Stay tuned!

Expanding on this: Teach quotation, summary, paraphrase, citation at the beginning of every class, first activity after syllabus overview. Logic of citation, being able to retrace scholarly steps, replicate their work.

Evergreen.

Applications are open for SONG’s upcoming Data Center Organizing School in Atlanta, GA May 22-24. Deadline to apply 4/27 -

If we absolutely positively know who’s destroying the country. And we know they won’t stop. And we know HOW they do it. Why do “WE” have a crisis?

I’m not saying there is no crisis. But here’s the question: IF the only thing that changes is WHO gets to vote. And if white people ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS vote the same way… And they elect people to uphold Jim Crow, mass incarceration and anti-democratic principles And NO ONE ELSE EVER DOES…

The graph and the data are not wrong. But without the context of history, YOU CANT UNDERSTAND the data. What’s interesting is how white people are stuck on the GOP plantation Year in and year out, no matter what happens white people vote Republican.

Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows… The “crisis” is white people.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

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I'm just so impressed by the work my grads have done this term. They work really hard, but they are so shy about their sparks of brilliance. Teaching is such difficult work, but those moments where you get to say, "that's brilliant! Keep going!" are worth it.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

Robo-dogs and ghost sharks grab headlines—but they’re just the spectacle. Behind them lies a vast system of surveillance, data extraction, and automated exclusion shaping modern border control, writes Tech Policy Press Fellow Petra Molnar.

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

BREAKING: I took to the House floor to force a vote on extending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti. We won the first important vote in this process, and now we're a step closer to getting this done. The House must move with urgency and pass this legislation without delay.

“Look at that bird” A Play In Three Acts

My Bluesky engagement strategy

It’s so frustrating. A lot of celebrity “interviews” are just influencers desperate to “hang out” with famous people they idolize. They rarely even ask questions, to say nothing of questions pertinent to anyone but themselves or stans. It’s a real loss for culture.

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap... Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!! MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026 Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026 #AIstudies #histtech

apparently they didn’t talk to a single person in minneapolis about this

Been having this conversation since I was in my English program in 2011. It's frustrating living in a country where everything is made up and the facts don't matter.

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"