"In fact, outside of the second Trump administration, I can really only think of two other instances where the government so fastidiously protects anonymity: The death chamber and the shadow docket." oof

Some people don’t even know the implications!!!!!

"If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free."

Show them to us. Because this is one of those classes Qanon lies that they’re going back to

I wonder if we can learn anything from the increasing resemblance between reality and comic books around supervillains being two-dimensional avatars of malevolence while going unpunished by The Law

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong

And yes, I know that higher ed has been under attack for decades now, I’ve ranted about it often enough but please let’s not pretend what Trump and his administration is doing is not distinctive in its scope and method. For the love of god, stop nitpicking, this is not a journal article.

University of Texas Austin announced it was closing its American Studies Department just as Harper attacked one of the few foundations left willing to fund American studies research

Verdin were everywhere I went in Las Vegas, but were still hard to get good looks at. They were also busy seemingly getting their nests ready. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR

Birds I saw in & around Joshua Tree National Park: Phainopepla! 🦉

Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.

Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities. Reposts appreciated!

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond Sponsors #SB48 to Keep ICE off of School Campuses, Protecting School Attendance and Funding Amid Deportation Threats www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...

Also, fascinating that- among benefit societies and mutual aid societies* in NY state in the 1910s, the only ones that codified maternity leave for women workers were run by Black women (Hoffman 2001; discussion in Chapter 1) *frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW

this scene gives me chills each time I watch it. Casablanca was a contemporary film: it was set in 1941 and released in 1942. They were celebrating neighbors and compatriots across the globe. It'd be like releasing a film next year about what's happening in Minnesota www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

I wrote and @palletgx.bsky.social illustrated a comic! We're both trans. Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future! Check out this page. Launches on Kickstarter March 1st: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

I had the good fortune to visit Joshua Tree National Park with bae. Some nice views. (I have to get my camera lens cleaned!)

OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison. Sigh.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!

When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about

a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID bsky.app/profile/west...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

AND STAY DOWN

My esteemed colleague Malik Gaines posted this from Black Reconstruction recently & it still hits. "I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience." We been knew. archive.org/details/blac...

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

My suspicion is that when billionaires say "A.i." will eliminate 10 percent of jobs, they're just telegraphing their pre-existing desire and plans to cut their payroll by 10 percent and pocket the difference.

It seems as though the Trump administration's primary goal is to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nothing positive in their place.

They're called warehouses because they are for housing wares

Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!

The Atlantic: I blame the Mellon foundation

Riddle me this: how come they hide their faces but they're allowed to use facial recognition on us?

Reviewed a book manuscript, and I elected to take the free books from the press, which I will give to grad students who need to read them. It's cool because I get to do a little shopping and I won't increase the number of books in my office!

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

By the way, where is Maduro? At this point shouldn’t the Trump Administration provide “proof of life”?

Had my colonoscopy today. When they asked if I wanted to remove my Green Lantern cap I said: “It will protect me by activating my power ring if someone tries to harvest my organs.” They nodded understanding and/or fear and/or confusion. Soon after I was safely in cryogenic colo-sleep.

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

This is just unconscionable man

No one is stopping other foundations from funding the humanities

I love examples of other animals successfully communicating with us