PSA: since we’re all about Catholicism now — the Mary Lou Williams edition is finally in production; choir directors, big bands, chamber orchestras: program this music!

They finally brought a factory back to the U.S.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

we are going to win

say it again: SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

What a life, what an artist

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

UCI has, alas, become one of the sector leaders in Ponzi austerity bullshit. Hiring EdTech execs with no HigherEd credentials as Deans of Continuing Education (for just one instance). @trevorgriffey.bsky.social in Remaking The University.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

the thing is we lived through a revolution: the repeal of taxation, reagan onward. that means there’s one easy trick for the core of reconstruction: fix the rates loud in the streets, power in the spreadsheets

no joke i was going to comment "waiting for guffman ass rally" and then went to put in the alt text and learned it was at Eugene Levy Fieldhouse and even though it's a different Eugene Levy it still gave me a very literal lol

today in books received bluesky friends wrote these, shared ideas in process, other bluesky friends published, now real print gems, shining from the reading table + refracting in surprising ways! @andyoler.bsky.social @henrysnow.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

"This fall, MCNY will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement [+] the city’s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing... 'We’re certainly aware of the moment we are all living through... We’re just continuing to do what we do...'"

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

this is a masterpiece

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

that's IMMEDIACY: "on platforms optimized for engagement, visibility,+emotional reaction questions of truth increasingly became filtered through identity, emotion, + social validation rather than through slower institutional systems of evidence, authority, + debate." www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Always worth remembering that Insider Higher Ed is owned by Times Higher Education, a one-time industry publication which has been remade as a data-analytic consultancy AND which is itself owned by Inflexion Private Equity.

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

Oh oh oh! This would have cured miserable grad student me. What a great conversation.

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

Gorgeous, incredible work

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

it is crucial that the MLA, the AHA, and the ACLS joined forces to fight the illegal theft of federal research and programming funds i donated to support these efforts, and if you can, in any amount, you should too

Gold Coast Chicago Tesla, the midwest hub of Tesla protests, is gone.

Spot-on post. Naturalization is really key here: the creation of a world in which all saying & making, labor & production, "content," has zero bearing on form, & where the form was invented precisely to neutralize everything it receives *as* content. Couldn't imagine a better political metaphor!

It’s true. Covid was (is) the antithesis of the screen, the defining platform & medium of society’s last 4+ decades. A terrible medium that erases its own existence, denies the very conditions of mediation, & fosters only narcissism & psychotic break, solipsism & flood, as its two options.

Palantir “shamelessly used mock-MoMA branding for the logo + as a leitmotif for the entire [AIPcon] event… The conference employed, as a projected stage backdrop for Karp, Abstract Expressionish painting simulations… Flashing above their heads was the tagline THERE IS ONLY THE ARTIST AND THE WORK.”

there is none!! there can’t really be one either. the body keeps the score is a bad book but the topic itself is unquantifiable. whether trauma has epigenetic markers is an emergent question but the physical damage done to the body on behalf of the brain is still lowkey in the realm of Freud

This implies some are not.

Hat recht!

huh

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

Told my students today that the hackers having their data wasn't necessarily worse than Canvas having it.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

"fuck dork" is all the language you need, imperative, expletive, affirmation, aspiration

good morning to the dog throwing up all over the Supreme Court stairs

The Cold Optimism of Hot Ones: Thermal Modernisms Today

Hot tip when looking for posts on the new ep of The Bearwhile sitting next to your kid be ready for alternative interpretations

I was about a 15 minute walk from this nonsense the other day

I believe this is the first time in *ages* that anyone has called Rudy Giuliani "stable."

Genuinely love to see a stance changed like this — and publicly acknowledged. Public opinion is in our favor. It’s long past time for Illinois lawmakers to repeal this anti-free speech law.

theory/ethno/musicology

good morning discoursers! middlebrow furrowed chaos yesterday whew but CULTURE IS FOR EVERYBODY hyperallergic.com/how-to-prote... @isanchezprado.bsky.social