Came up a half-minute short of a PB at the Sioux Falls Marathon today. Felt good, should’ve pushed harder. Still, nice course. 3rd sub-3/hr this year. 25th lifetime marathon. 15th state. Next up: Victoria, BC, Oct 12 #running

Last week I wrote about how the absurd RICO case against Cop City protesters in Georgia threatened journalists, in addition to activists. Now the federal government wants to do the same -- weaponize conspiracy and racketeering laws to turn dissent into a felony. Things are moving fast...

Terrific thread. I’m honored to be a part of this event tomorrow. Planning to pick up on many of these themes. Will try to raise some questions about Du Bois’s “counter-revolution of property” thesis in an age of end-times fascism. Streaming: csrea.link/DuBoisZoom

Gift link for the afternoon crowd I write on why palestinian statehood recognition schemes are a trap www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

It’s becoming increasingly hard to imagine the time when one could still imagine. Only about 100 pages in, but very grateful for this reminder, a much-needed timeline cleanse of sorts.

The footage coming out of Gaza is the worst I've ever seen. God forgive us.

Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation. "It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."

"Nothing that I learned, here, lessened my feeling of pain and confusion and bitterness as related to my origins...Nothing showed me how I might try to alter the political and economic realities underlying our Black condition in white America." June Jordan, "Notes of a Barnard Dropout"

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Are folks just not even applying for higher ed jobs anymore? Two weeks out from our application deadline and shockingly few applications. I assumed this market would produce the opposite effect. (It's a relatively good job; folks really should apply.)

HBCUs need a mutual defense compact. And if administrators and trustees can’t get past the competitive posturing, may the academic labor movement, growing on HBCU campuses, lead the way toward solidarity.

Karen is a columnist. Karen wrote as columnists write. Karen was fired. Karen’s class on race and reporting was among those cancelled at Columbia. I know Karen, literally and in a proverbial sense. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt... @karenattiah.bsky.social

“The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it. The dismissals, the blacklists…”

Happy birthday Claude McKay. Taught Du Bois’s 1921 Crisis rejoinder in class today. For most, it seems, McKay was the more compelling voice.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Still one of my faves :) “Dismissed from his tchg post [in] 1968, [Fredy] Perlman (of the Red & Black Gang + Detroit Printing Co-Op) announced his separation from the academy in a scorching pamphlet, I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror + Violence..." peoplesgdarchive.org/item/2246/i-...

I wrote a review of Jodi Dean’s excellent new book Capital’s Grave. The review concentrates on two questions raised by Dean's neofeudal hypothesis: the status of capital's laws of motion, and the place of services in contemporary society. Open access: scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…” The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”

NEW — Footage of the reported drone attack of the "Alma" ship on the Sumud Gaza aid flotilla. The boat was sailing under the British flag. Fire damage seen in this video. Comes after the "Family" was attacked yesterday in Tunisian waters. Fire since extinguished. Crew safe.

!!! This is good news. You can support the Stop Cop City Atlanta defendants here: weelauneethefree.org/support-the-... For more on what's happening, follow @atlpresscollective.com and Mainline on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DOZDaYckWH...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Nice photo choice, AP—lol. Good news, for now. A case so absurdly dead on arrival that even today’s judicial environment can’t give it life. Now drop the domestic terrorism charges.

#Breaking news from Atlanta - Judge Kevin Farmer just tossed the RICO case against the 61 #StopCopCity defendants after finding the Georgia Attorney General didn’t have proper jurisdiction to prosecute them under state law. Great news. Solidarity with everyone that continues to fight 🖤🫡

The AI thinks I can run a 2:41 marathon. Feel like there’s a little Sam Altman in my watch over promising glory, while the reality is I’m just working harder than ever to keep up, lol.

What pisses me off about the Anthropic settlement isn't even that $3k per book is too low, but that it's restricted to books registered with the US Copyright Office. ALL WORKS are protected by copyright as soon they're published in any capacity. Registering has no bearing on copyright itself.

Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, says he’ll join the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with an aid boat from Tunisia. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp

NEW EP chris smalls & huwaida arraf join us for a conversation about the gaza freedom flotilla and its history, the US labor movement's complicity in genocide, the failure of liberal institutions, and much more

I’ll be showing up to the AAUP chapter meeting next week with “an invitation to join in study.” Thanks for this @andyhines.bsky.social

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Here are links to our essays and interviews related to this project.

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

“This is not the first time the Israeli government has committed a live-streamed war crime and then told all of you that it was just a mistake.” @premthakker.bsky.social lists 10 times that Israel has attacked civilians, journalists and health workers and brushed it aside with an apology.

“… the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.” -Cesaire

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd

I spent 5 years following Atlanta families working multiple jobs but still unable to afford a place to live. Now they fear losing food stamps and Medicaid — but JD Vance has no interest in them. That's the real story: demonizing homeless people is cover for policies pouring gasoline on this crisis.

I think AI can make a latent class consciousness more easy to activate, and I think a lot of our AI critiques should focus on that

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply. morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

“Universities and colleges […] already function as preeminent choreographers of credit. The problem is that a punishingly private vision of finance has long concealed higher education’s real capacities and potentials.”

Happy Tokyo Marathon lottery entry day to all who celebrate.

My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply. morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898