Milwaukee-area academics: Marquette is hiring full-time two visiting profs, one for AY26-27 and one for just the fall. If you know someone who would be a good candidate for one or both positions, please spread the word! Job ads in comments.

According to a peer-reviewed study published by The Lancet, Elon Musk will forever be one of history’s worst mass murderers — and of CHILDREN.

Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

On Juneteenth remember none of this is ancient history. If you think Emmett Till was "so long ago" should be reminded that 10 current members of Congress are older than him & the white woman Carolyn Bryant who falsely accused him died only 3 years ago. Not ancient history. Contemporary reality.

The Rosenwald schools did address a need and gave kids valuable schoolhouses. But Black communities bore most of the costs. Julius Rosenwald provided seed money, but again, this was another example of Black communities being forced to pay more for a public education than white communities. (4)

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

Today we say goodbye to the bestest boy. To Valhalla! May her halls ring with the songs celebrating your bravery and courage.

On the bright side, we did get this part of the cyberpunk dystopia.

On this anniversary of D-Day I want to express my deep gratitude to all the people of Europe that have, from the beginning, adopted the graves of the fallen heroes who gave their lives in the course of their liberation from Nazi Germany, and care for them like family.

Pupdate: Making the call. We'll say goodbye this week. The bestest boy.

for every graham platner, there's dozens of just as capable women you could be investing in who don't have nazi tattoos or abusive pasts you just don't want to expand your class analysis to encompass gender

Its a good thing Ted Chiang very effectively argues that LLMs are not conscious here because if they were he'd be guilty of murder. By god this is a fucking takedown www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

Paul Wann at Governor's Academy. He just retired, and he touched so many lives. He had a senior seminar on 'Power and Mastery,' and the reading list was great: Dr. Faustus Paradise Lost (books 1 and 2 only) The Tempest Frankenstein Moby-Dick Fifth Business The Magus I want to run that class now.

In Snow Crash, Hiro steps off the private confines of his Metaverse home and is immediately bombarded with pop-ups. Stephenson got this one right (as he so often does).

Consultants should be hounded, heckled, and marched straight off campus. They are the enemy of education: an extractive beast who seeks to loot Universities of all their worth and leave behind a wreckage.

#OnThisDay in 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa race massacre: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p...

on this day 105 years ago in 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white supremacists destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood district. This group of citizens destroyed 35 blocks of "Black Wall Street", killed 300, and left 10,000 Black citizens homeless.

@rezekjoe.bsky.social - this made me think of you!

‘Jackpot’ is the title then. Make a note @root2702.bsky.social

Jack Shaftoe drew nearer to a fire, partly because he was cold and partly because he wanted a closer look at one particular naked girl who was dancing around it. > #Quicksilver #Walpurgisnacht

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." ― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

While I’m here I’ll just recommend this book — I love Okorafor and especially this one www.afriwarebooks.com/store/p1506/...

I think the real problem facing higher ed is not gen AI. I think it’s the same old problems. Three of them. (1) Big classes suck.* (2) Online classes suck. (3) Adjunctification sucks. Gen AI is only a problem if you can’t solve those 3 problems.

Also MIT: We’re closing down the libraries and firing the librarians!

Exactly one mosquito in history has had a purpose for existing

Miles Davis would be 100 today. listen to this absolute perfection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Np8...

Viewpoint diversity in the academia, in my experience, has always been code for hiring someone with ideas that have been repeatedly disproven but a donor or legislature has applied pressure or is owed a favor.

Many of us are enjoying #MemorialDay with family at picnics and barbecues, but many farm workers are laboring hard to put food on our tables. Let's give a big shout out to these hard-working people. #WeFeedYou

I got a new fake book club email, which means it's time for some REAL PROMO! Check out my latest reel on Instagram (@ audio dot futurism) #Audiofuturism www.instagram.com/reel/DYp5kTI...

Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. George was a beloved father, grandfather, brother, and friend. His life mattered and he should still be here.

To my peeps, and my Brown and LGBTQ friends. Never forget that your light was so damn bright they handed the world to the first asshole who promised to dim it.

Got the proofs for my new essay on ‘Snow Crash.’ Feels good.

Not me, but my dad would absolutely have The Right Stuff (1983) on his “Name a #film you’ve seen 9 times or more” list 😆 So would his dad have done, too, if memory serves. Dads love The Right Stuff! #FilmSky 🎥 #movies

Teaching: -Being in the room where it happens for student discovery -literally nothing else compares to a great class when the students are popping Research: -reading exciting new writers -writing something that has never existed before -synthesizing ideas from those who've come before

Academic Freedom means: *Freedom to discuss all relevant matters in the classroom *Freedom to explore all avenues of scholarship & research *Freedom from censorship/discipline when addressing matters of institutional policy *Freedom from censorship/discipline when speaking as a member of the public.

Obviously my students are self-selecting, but when I hear how they talk about AI vs. how university admin talks about AI...I don't think the university has any idea how much students resent it.

I do want to note that you can't have cheap eggs, but one thing you CAN have is *plentiful* eggs. If you have enough hens (we had 12 at one point) then you will be swimming in so many goddamn eggs that you will be desperate to 1) shove them at anyone and everyone, and 2) find egg recipes.

Whenever someone says "I didn't see eye-to-eye with Reagans politics but at the end of the day he was a good man" It tells me you do not have black, gay, trans, Latin American & union worker friends because it would be IMPOSSIBLE to believe that after witnessing what he did to those groups

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Workers should not have to worry about AI monitoring them on the job or stealing their data without their consent. 90% of Americans want guardrails to protect our jobs and privacy protections from AI. Big Tech billionaires should not get to violate our rights for “innovation.”

Tom McHaney was a guest instructor at Emory my sophomore year. He taught the Modern American novel, and his discussions, projects, and ancillary readings blew me away. I did my MA at GAState because he was there, and that set me to go to UCR where I worked with @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social

Systematic review with meta-analysis ‘the most comprehensive’ synthesis to date (52 studies & 6485 participants) found trans women do not exhibit significant differences in upper or lower body strength or max oxygen consumption relative to c1s women. bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3...