it is kinda funny the neoclassicism fans are nowhere to be found when a historic building is crumbling

Sunday morning, time for a lil treat of repeatedly hearing a Southerner pronounce “Foucault” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms and the policy gaps.

There are several other pieces on AI + social science in this issue of Daedalus--all open access. Including this smart reflection on "Making Automation Work for Social Scientists" by Institute for Advanced Study Member + @princeton.edu prof @mjcrockett.bsky.social www.amacad.org/publication/...

CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan was booed during a commencement speech by students who held signs protesting staff layoffs.

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>

This seems…not good

See also: crossing picket lines. Strikes being inconvenient is the point…that’s literally how strikes work.

Political and economic precarity as well as an attempt to differentiate malice from ignorance at Antioch and Hampshire medium.com/pedagogical-...

Indeed!

and: 250 hampshire college staff & faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance pay. please support this emergency fund if you can/help spread the word. helphampshireworkers.com

New in OPINION: Hampshire College, as we know it, is closing. We still think it has a future. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/hamp...

Hell yeah this is what I’m talking about

Less than half an hour till the last Hampshire College faculty meeting, as we prepare to vote degrees. The commencement tent is already up on the lawn for Saturday's ceremony, but things don't feel very festive

please check out this urgent community effort to reimagine hampshire college. and make a pledge if you can. hampshirenext.org

Folks at Hampshire are trying to save the college by buying it: www.instagram.com/p/DYDbRd-CB4... cc @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

My write up on the complex and cascading nature of agentic trust, up on Medium! Now with Godard pics (always prescient that JLG) medium.com/a-program-fo...

UX as a field is having to rapidly (and maybe painfully?) expand thinking / formulations about trust. The OG Web 2.0 version was like: user-trusts-system, and maybe in the realm of e-commerce: user-trusts-platform-to-mediate-with-seller (who user may or may not trust independently).

What if I were simply to touch the goo?

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Taught at a midwestern land grant university for more than 30 years. The English department had had 25 tenure line faculty when I began. It has 5 now.

Given how popular this is in regular meetings and particularly in research projects that use workshops, focus groups, or other conversational approaches, it's really important to recognise and respond to these problems. Not least given increasing organisational pressures to cut corners and speed up

Yes and the corrections only occur in that unique thread, the LLM continues to make the same mistake even in subsequent chats with the same user, not to mention all the other instances with other users.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Given what we’ve learned following Epstein, the Pelicot case, and the Motherless investigation, it is reasonable and protective for women to start warning each other about harmful men, beyond the extreme cases of rapists and murderers.

Some belated in-flight movie reviews 2/22/26 Rome to Dulles - Sotho Le Nuvole (2025) - very poetic, slow, sad about time. Pompei and Naples. Gianfranco Rosi. Definitely not one you should watch on a small screen. Alas.

SPOILERS: Frankenstein (1818) is a wild ride. Victor, aside from not being able to tell a story in a straightforward manner (relatable), is a deeply unlovable character. Maybe a covert narc? 🤔 Mary was prob familiar with those. Seems like a likely DSM ID for the romantic poets

Anecdote about sexist bullshit and PSA: recently, I went out to dinner with my wife her brother and his friend. Both the bro and his friend had their girlfriends there. Friend decides to bring up Larry Summers and ask "what do you think about this thing Larry Summers said that,

Few things are as demoralizing as having to spend 5 minutes going through password manager, 2-factor auth & facial recognition in order to get into my faculty outlook account. I’m like..look, I don’t even want to be here.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

“ In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver…” (gonna go with the latter)

Every time I see someone driving a car with historic plates I think “good for her”

Yup. This little animation shows how the visible part of the globe changes with your altitude, for altitudes between 100 and 8000 km. (And Artemis is currently much farther away than this: on the order of 200 000 km). www.desmos.com/calculator/8...

For 13 weeks, Marine recruits aren’t allowed to see their families. Not once. Graduation day is the first reunion. It’s supposed to be a celebration. At Parris Island in South Carolina this week, ICE agents will be stationed at the gate checking the immigration status of anyone who shows up to watch

Next: pay-per-puff a la PKD “Announced earlier this month, the goal of Ike Tech is to use biometric data and blockchain as security for age-verification measures built directly into the cartridge of a disposable vape.” www.wired.com/story/your-v...

“Most discussion of the Pentagon’s restrictions has focused on their conditions for reporters to receive press credentials, which the Pentagon says can be revoked if reporters publish “unauthorized” information.” theintercept.com/2026/03/26/p...

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say). This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

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Docomomo joins suit to protect Kennedy Center from Trump @docomomous.bsky.social docomomo-us.org/resource/fil...

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

If you support LPL and want to help us, please spread the word! We are looking for some early-career person to join us for a summer of research. Full details >> short.lucyparsonslabs.com/lpl2026apps

When the bar to making a proposal or document is so low more get churned out, but like, the point of these things is to have an audience of human eyeballs attached to a human with a finite lifespan spending precious moments reading the stupid thing.

Like I said, not good. Also not good is the current non-autonomous use of Claude for target ID, obviously. Even smart people seem to go nuts with too much LLM echo chamber reification, and start spiraling down recursive & untested by reality rabbit holes. And these are not smart people.

I’m writing a long form essay about the slow dismantling and stripping-for-parts of my alma mater, the storied Antioch College, once the most radical institution of higher learning in the USA, and certainly the longest-lived.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online. Full stop. "Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name We have to stop this. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Site launched! I designed the brand for Launch Day Advisors, the buyer-side advisory firm I co-founded. We wanted the design to demonstrate the same discernment we bring to our work — so we leaned entirely on typography and color. Nothing says restraint like a lot of navy and Instrument Sans.

The willingness to sacrifice the user for the business is intrinsic