Students may end up being the only real bulwark against what is happening. But, I know that not all students have the same power — the same exit threat. Student resistance will fall along institutional lines of privilege. Could hasten the marketization of non-elite schools. The elites win.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

The world could say no to this, y'know. fortune.com/2025/09/24/s...

💔😭There are almost no donations…we are dying. Mona cries after surgery—she needs rare drugs,acostly shoulder brace,and care. Majd still suffers,and we face endless needs We need 5,000 shekels ≈$1,600 for shelter,medicine,and care just to live with dignity. Please Don't forget us🙏 gofund.me/2f942387

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

💔 In Gaza, we live under destruction and hunger, without shelter or security. Every day we lose our loved ones and struggle to survive. Your donation today could be a lifeline for a child or a family exhausted by the blockade. Help us persevere 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1466...

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group @kneecapceol.bsky.social from Canada, preventing them from performing their October shows. Email your MP and tell them to Reverse Kneecap's Travel Ban! bit.ly/ReverseKneec...

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Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Which makes the decimation and outsourcing of IT services at my institution even more infuriating.

Good thing none of this un-human reinforced un-human trained un-human aligned genAI isn't in everyone's elementary and law and medical schools and also in like your dishwasher and your fuckin sneakers too probably at this point

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

My god. This is homophobia pure and simple. The kinds of things I heard as a child; growing up in a gay household. I thought we were past this. But they are out of step with the majority of people who support, know & care for families like mine.

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza. The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started. Thousands fleeing for their lives

My favourite line in this piece: 'It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”'

There's free speech, and then there's Campus Free Speech™️. This is the latter

Prime Minister, Keir Starmer & the former Home Secretary, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social were quick to condemn the killing of a white nationalist podcaster in America but have had nothing to say about this racially aggravated & brutal attack on one of their own citizens.

“UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their ‘potential connection’ to reports of alleged antisemitism.” Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested

Everything is happening all at once. Do not forget them.

You can donate to help Yasmeen and her family here: www.gofundme.com/f/eddz3y-hel...

If you're overwhelmed by the amount of Gaza fundraisers flooding your TL just imagine how overwhelmed they are getting the 25th evacuation order while being starved to death and terrorized with bombs paid by our tax money. Choose 3 fundraisers and give $5 to each...even that can save lives. 🙏🏼

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Eminent children’s authors call on UK government to recognise genocide in Gaza and lift ban on Palestine Action The statement is signed by >80 children’s authors, illustrators, and educators,many of the UK’s best-known writers and artists for children. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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on British public opinion on Palestine, a Nice Local Middle Class Mums WhatsApp Group that I’m a member of (with several hundred other women) is currently discussing whether — rather than sign a petition — it would be possible to simply storm Herzog’s security detail and perform a citizen’s arrest

I haaaaate that take. We also don't teach kids how to use the horrible self-service portal they'll need to download their tax forms from their jobs but 🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/asv....

Just used this link to get rid of sh* tty AI results to queries on Google: tenbluelinks.org

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

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Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it). Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maisa’s BlueSky account has unfortunately been deleted once again - please continue to share her fundraiser and donate if you can! Her family is facing forced evacuation once again and could use some support. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9hgv...

GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.

"Nazi Germany used deliberately deceptive & bureaucratic euphemisms to refer to the transportation of Jews for extermination. The most common terms, "resettlement to the east" & "evacuation," were designed to hide their true intentions from both the victims & the public" — ‪@cvilletgr.bsky.social

I remember Molly saying if you can to also get in contact with a family off Bluesky, I have been able to help a lot of desperate people thanks to that advice. You can help, even if you are terrified at doing this wrong Palestinians will have so much grace and patience with you. Act now.

Hey, let’s do a quick check on how the totally patriotic, community spirited, open-minded flag guys are affecting York. (This was the Dragon House Chinese takeaway in Acomb yesterday. Everyone who could should order from them this week).

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

In many institutions- *ahem* - there's managerial consensus that Humanities schools should be just kept as a storehouse for propping up claims to interdisciplinarity by STEM subjects when they want The Big Grants. An appendage when useful, but not in themselves legitimate. As in 'that article'.

Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”

Crucial thread for anyone looking to support evacuees from Gaza City. This is literally life-saving work. Please consider helping someone survive, if you’re at all able.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

A Mothers and father Dream to see her Kids LIve chuffed.org/project/1428...