I can't stop listening to this fantastic album. youtu.be/_fbeK3m_HlI?...

El 23 de abril estaré en @mircouam.bsky.social presentando un avance de mi proyecto de investigación del último año.

Episode with @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com which I hope will entice you to read (pre-order?) their book even if you are soooooooo tired of the daily trifles of Elon Musk. His saturating triviality is a strategic impediment to perceiving his making & potentially enduring beyond MAGA redux.

Palantir discovered ontology in much the same way Columbus discovered America. That is to say:the broligarchs are thieves & barbarians. They plant their flags on others' work & say "look at our genius!" Now they're claiming to have "popularized" a well-known branch of philosophy 1,000s of yrs old.

Saving this to watch all the videos as soon as I have time!

Princeton has shared the full talk I had with @katemanne.bsky.social mediacentral.princeton.edu/category/2_C...?

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”

This needs to be shared and reshared. It should not be difficult to develop a non-profit alternative to Canvas, which adds hardly any value to our instructional and curriculum design work, while being ideally positioned (and designed) to extract both the value we create and our students' data.

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

I received the copies of the Spanish translation of my book, *The Amistad Rebellion*, published by the wonderful @traficantes-ed.bsky.social in Madrid. Happy to be able to tell my Spanish-speaking friends that the book is available for free download! traficantes.net/libros/la-re...

One of the automated tasks Canvas is promising is "rubric generation." What if I said that moving away from rubric-based assessment is a necessity to preserve your labor and freedom to teach as you wish? We have to look underneath the hood of the systems this technology is shaping.

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Hadn’t seen this had gone up, based on an interview I did with them. Second Thought do some of the best produced medium length videos on important political topics, especially strong on archival footage use. youtu.be/JpIF8MPRWyI?...

Of interest (echoing the OP) is the idea of reckoning with a “future accountability moment” in which a student *knows* they *need to know* whatever they can write down *without knowing*. That seems like it can motivate real attempts to learn even while *faking* learning with AI on some assessments

REMINDER 🚨 This Wednesday @cfieschi.bsky.social and I discuss the threat of the radical right in and to Europe at this @carnegieendowment.org online event. Sign up here 👇

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam. The whole economy is oil and scams.

"If we want machines that support human activity, we must begin with paying attention to how people actually do things in the first place." Ada Lopez writes about Lucy Suchman's Plans and Situated Actions for the Futures Library futuresoflanguage.org/posts/librar...

We've revamped the Futures of Language website! Read about the project, team, papers, and other news at futuresoflanguage.org Also, our weekly updates are collated in the Futures Library, a growing collection of short pieces on ideas & people that drive the project: futuresoflanguage.org/library/

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

1/ I've taught/referenced three democracy indexes/reports over the years- from Freedom House, the V-Dem Institute, and The Economist Intelligence Unit. V-Dem just came out with its 2026 report. Like most measures of the health of democracy, it's not good news. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

These headlines are a week apart. -- @AssalRad x.com/AssalRad/sta...

A deal to integrate OpenAI's products into classrooms in California’s biggest public university system has sparked backlash from students and faculty, presaging similar battles over AI in higher education around the country, Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports.

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

The Long Read today in @theguardian.com is an excerpt from the last chapter of @bentarnoff.com + my new book. We revisit DOGE as a case of Musk’s cyborg conservatism: the government as a codebase to be rewritten and cleansed. The title of the chapter is StateX. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Maravilla.

When I saw Chomsky was in the Epstein files, I knew there'd be people I'd worked with - and I was right. As I dug into it, a horrifying picture of academia emerged. I wrote it up, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

Saving this interview for tomorrow...

It's coming! The seminar is open to researchers, teachers, and BA, MA, and PhD students interested in vocabulary and metaphor in L1, L2, and L3 acquisition, learning, and teaching. 📩 Abstract submission deadline: 27 February 🔗 More information on the website (link in bio)

A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.

imagine you’re on a spaceship and then some random guy says that all the water and power on board should be used to generate fake sentences and ugly pics

end of an era

Sin duda uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX y lo que va del XXI, y de enorme interés para las ciencias lingüísticas dada la centralidad del lenguaje y la comunicación en su pensamiento.

we're reading "Why We Fear AI" by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer. you should join if you're tired of this shit

Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Obama's cultural and symbolic power in an interview that is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project. obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu/interviews/t...

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman These bros are not okay.

Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.

The AI Skeptics Reading Group is reading Why We Fear AI now! If you've been looking for an online reading group on AI, I highly recommend this one!

Y más fantásticas fotos de Eugene Smith en "Life": www.life.com/people/life-...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

New Dig ep: Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid high anti-war public sentiment. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. thedigradio.com/podcast/anti...

👀 2 documentaires en partie sur les accents et sur Marseille cette semaine : ▪️ Lundi 9 à 23h20, "Avé l'accent", documentaire diffusé sur Paris-Première (en partie sur la discrimination à l'accent) ▪️ Mercredi 11 à 17h20, "Invitation au voyage" sur Arte : "Le marseillais, c'est aussi une langue"

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...