Oh wow just realized I’m a content AND structure radical

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

All I had to vote for were two uncontested races in Hillsborough and I showed up anyway

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

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Mayor-elect Mamdani comes out to Ja Rule's "New York" and starts his victory speech by quoting Eugene V. Debs. Gotta love that contrast lol

If any sad rich New Yorkers would like to sell me your apartment at a massive loss please DM me

Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵

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Calls for reviews & essays: February 2026

what they don’t tell you is that procrastinating on your reading for class continues even when you yourself are the one teaching the class

Hey weirdlings... submit

New episode of A Meal of Thorns! Scholar, writer, and CRSF organizer E.F. McAdam is on the podcast to discuss Hiromi Kawakami's UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD (tr. Asa Yoneda, @grantabooks.bsky.social/ @catapultbooks.bsky.social)

I sincerely believe that you cannot square representative governance with current techno-authoritarian infrastructure. If a politician isn’t sufficiently afraid of *that*, then they are the enemy. Simple litmus test. Build people power around state campaign finance reform & regulate tech ASAP.

Okay I am digging out from underneath the costume avalanche and we’re starting out with a Book Dragon restock! I’ve restocked earrings and both sizes of statue ☺️ measuredandslow.studio/shop?categor...

I know it is infuriating to faculty at Ohio State that their institution is being converted into a para-governmental incubator for technofeudal collaborationist hackery like this. We’ll worry about AI slop, cognitive atrophy, AI psychosis, etc. AFTER we compel every teacher & student to use it. 🤬

"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. " against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean

Ok so my very favorite SEC football/government-overreach-into-academia story is that when Huey Long was governor of Louisiana, he got mad when LSU was losing, fired the coach, and appointed himself head coach in the middle of the game

I’m an academic librarian, this is basically a Tuesday for me and I’m having a great time

My 82-year-old, white, straight, cis, small town Alabama father last night on the phone: “I hope my man Mamdani wins next week in New York!”

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

All The Horsemen of EdTech Apocalypse - Automation, Enclosure, Unbundling, Behavioral Modification - are being mustered through long-term SaaS & HaaS subscriptions. Which means, if we opt-out, unsubscribe, deactivate, etc., well, the horsies stay in the barn.

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

Do yourself a favor and check out this review: very cool discussion of a book I need to pick up, and also an extremely concise and persuasive manifesto on translated SFF's place in anglophone fandom (and why we need more of it).

In hindsight it’s too bad that Y2K didn’t shut down all of the computers.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries. 🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

Congratulations to Darren Mueller, whose book "At the Vanguard of Vinyl" has been named the winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, given by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. www.dukeupress.edu/at-the-vangu...

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People. "But what if they're on drugs?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "Or not really THAT poor?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "What if they have a phone and nice nails?" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

Genuinely laughing to keep from crying at this instant classic from @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

Reeling from the scale of the SNAP cliff. In Orange County NC alone: 8700 individual SNAP recipients in 4683 families.

A good note here. In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”

"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t." haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

The situation is becoming very clear at this point. AI companies see 3 paths through the bubble many of them won’t survive: 1) pornbots, 2) Ponzi austerity SaaS, 3) plagiarism & detection. The latter two are built around presumptions about education which are not true. For instance, that we need LMS

⭐⭐ Relentlessly provocative and original, Bettcher's recent treatise is an instant field-defining classic. This book is dense, challenging, and presages years of theory to come. My aim with this review was to provide a broad summary for lay folks to give a general sense of why this book matters.

HAPPY ASEXUAL AWARENESS WEEK! Have some book recs. Even more book recs: www.goodreads.com/review/list/... An awesome itch.io bundle (including my book PUPPETRY): itch.io/b/3318/ace-p... This post with text: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/25/a... 🌈📚

I love that humanity made stories about jinn and faeries and demons and how you shouldn't trust anything that claims to fulfil your wildest wishes without understanding the costs thousands of years ago. At least we've always known how fucking stupid we are.

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

Late last week a community org emailed me and my neighbors in Hillsborough to inform us that we are living near a former dump turned park that is leaching unsafe levels of benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic, and other heavy metals into our groundwater, soil, and air. I wish local news would cover it!

happy to help with the third one here

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

Something intensely frustrating which I've seen across academia, NGOs, media orgs and corporations (I mean, just, every professional space in the world) is "WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T" is **never** considered an option, and it's the same for this report. Error rates like that, 3 years in? Ditch it ffs