Luke Munn, Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, and Awais Hameed Khan introduce “Unmaking AI,” a framework for critically evaluating generative AI image models beyond surface-level bias metrics, focusing on ecosystems, training data, and outputs in #CriticalAI 3.2. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

OMG, all of "area studies" cut at UNC, this is huge. (The region-based centers like Asia, Middle East, African Studies...and more. The loss of Title VI and the $ that used to go with it taking a toll.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

Sign this letter in support of Sang Hea Kil as she fights for immediate reinstatement.

Sang Hea Kil is the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy. “All faculty should be able to protest all genocides without targeted punitive actions." - Sang Hea Kil

We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...

"Happy Genocide Day" Corrected Thanksgiving mural seen in Pensacola, Florida

"Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine" Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months. Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact” www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements

THIS FRIDAY: interested in contemporary South Korean feminist movements and backlash against them? Don’t miss this roundtable!

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia

Does your university have policies around students recording professors without consent?

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Looking forward to this necessary and ever-so timely conversation on how Korean feminist and queer discourses have shifted over the past decade since the “feminist reboot.”

Thank you for welcoming us today. I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing group!

“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

"The genocide has “killed my lungs.” This is how Samah al-Dahshan narrates losing her nine-year-old daughter Nasma." My latest editor's note for Journal of Palestine Studies @PalStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The settlement doesn't require Brown to pay off the Trump administration, nor does it appear to constrain teaching. But Brown will provide admissions data to prove "compliance with merit-based admissions," and it will "adopt Trump’s definitions of male and female" (though Brown has coed housing).

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 98 Palestinians since dawn, including 38 aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2nui5x

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.