"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach." AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

This is great.

It would seem that this deserves more investigation.

Yes, I saw about 15% of my non-major undergrads turn in papers with clear indicators of undisclosed LLM use. The majority said they only used Grammarly (which Rutgers has a site license for) and did not realize it was doing the same thing as ChatGPT.

Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs By Elizabeth Preston On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction. Gift link!

A fantastic article from Yale’s student newspaper last October that I’ve required all my students to read at the beginning of this semester: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

open.substack.com/pub/monicatr... The absurdity and cruelty of mass deportation. Also how not to survive the zombie apocalypse.

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Yes, exactly this. See also: aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

youtu.be/y8k3Pc_ho5o?... I would love to see art of the Golden Snake

Mamdani with a reverse Martha Stewart

Gripping and uniquely powerful. Take 2 minutes to listen. "We don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse; but, we know enough."

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Yeah, 2 weeks is 2 weeks too many. The DemocrTs job is say ‘no’

We will win. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

Not wrong.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

First, the post and replies are amazing. Second, it's easy to tell someone who has never volunteered at the community-level because they say things like Naomi's screenshot. Doing a grocery run is a given for pretty much any volunteer event around here. 🤷‍♀️And I know the US isn't that different.

My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

any Senate office, can be reached at 202-224-3121. Operators are available to connect you to a specific senator's office, or you can find direct phone numbers on their individual websites

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Okay as someone who has been tear gassed in a confined space with no windows or protective gear as part of my job, this is absolutely jaw-droppingly dangerous. This is what you'd do in a self defence situation, where your life depended upon this action. This is nothing short of torture.

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

Exceptional cover of Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" by Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Chorus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

This is in response to Congressman Randy Fine announcing the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.

I had not seen this. Schumer explained.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

I did a crisper version of this Andor remix if anyone is a completist.

The videos clearly show what they show. But the real point is that federal agents shouldn't be swarming neighborhoods in the first place. The "debate" about this incident really ends there.

Welcome to Antifa, icy concrete

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

If fewer Americans had voted for Trump, Renee Good would be alive and caring for her child today. No matter what lies Trump and his propagandists spread, no matter what nonsense the media prints, no matter what conspiracies MAGA invents, that remains manifestly true.

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