Finally, when students ask why I don't use Canvas, I point them to the article "EdTech" by @anniemcc.bsky.social and Louise McCune in University Keywords (ed. Andy Hines). Today's Canvas outage and resulting disruptions may offer some time to read that article. Attached are some highlights.

Really enjoyed doing this interview about the book with @publicseminar.bsky.social! publicseminar.org/2026/04/inte...

This is an incredible story

A nice little interview about my book... press.princeton.edu/ideas/annie-...

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

This new bullshit of getting 4-5 emails PER DAY trying to scam you with a "marketing" or "outreach" opportunity for your newly published book is so f'ing annoying, especially b/c the emails are just terrible AI summaries based on your own bookcopy which is alienating and also just, like, a bummer.

the left hates AI so much because its offenses cut across the new left / old left, artistic / social critique divides. it alienates human capacities, homogenizes culture, encourages inauthenticity, devastates the environment, promotes centralization, lessens worker power, increases unemployment.

If a DoorDash grandma tshirt doesn’t make you feel nauseous about late stage capitalism idk what will

It’s telling to me that UMass is aggressively enforcing this on faculty re course materials even as it does nothing to address the numerous ableist/unhealthy infrastructure issues on campus dailycollegian.com/2023/03/umas...

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

This is SO telling--as I often note to my students, if you ask genAI to assess/evaluate something without directly *asking* for critique, it will ALWAYS fail to be negative/critical.

it's officially out! :)

Coming to @aydelottefound.bsky.social later this month. Vandal Live with @alybatt.bsky.social & @anniemcc.bsky.social. Lots of help from @andyhines.bsky.social Currently reading this pair of new releases, both available from @princetonupress.bsky.social aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...

An excerpt from Ted's amazing book, _American Literature's War on Crime_, is up on lithub!

I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!

I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!

Donated! Prof. Willoughby-Herard followed her duty and put herself on the line to protect students protesting genocide. The UC and the state see her as a threat and want to make an example out of her. She needs our solidarity and help.

The Return of the '90s (edited by me & @seanobrien.bsky.social ) will be out in June & can now be pre-ordered from @plutopress.bsky.social! Featuring work from many wonderful contributors, with an afterword from Annie McClanahan (@anniemcc.bsky.social): www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

Hi all--The amazing scholar and activist Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is still facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against disciplinary action at UCI. Please consider donating and/or share within networks.

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

So this is gonna be like when we all started following epidemiologists in March 2020, huh.

For reasons @ubiquity75.xyz helps unpack, this interview with UC President Milliken on why the UC refused to join THEIR OWN FACULTY in SUCCESSFULLY suing the Trump admin and preventing UCLA from being forced to pay 1 billion in extortion money is reeeeeeeeally something....

Kirkus Reviews calls Annie @anniemcc.bsky.social's "intelligent and timely" Beneath the Wage "an eye-opening look at today’s service work and the forms of solidarity that have emerged to meet it." Read the full review here:

A useful thread about today's UCLA lawsuit. He suggests that the significant narrowing from the "giant" Title VI case--involving a fine, funding freezes, and a slew of "demands"--to this might reflect an awareness of "the major weaknesses" of the Title VI case...which CUCFA/AAUP are so far winning!

UCLA faculty stopped a $1.2 billion ransom payment to Trump while their bosses hid in the corner

I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

I got to give a talk last week about one of my very favorite topics--prison education! So much gratitude to @ucilifted.bsky.social

"'AI' may simply be a way of papering over other forms of cost-cutting. 'Outsourcing is a very popular one,' he told The Register. 'They’re firing people because of AI, and then three weeks later they hire a team in India because the labor is so much cheaper.'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

this has been going on in non-fiction and low content books for a long time -- it was only a matter of time; Ms. Hart is selling access to her technique and developing proprietary tech, just taking advantage of how many people out there are desperate for some kind of income

My book is now available for pre-order!

I am fucking DYING inside: "AI Slop serves a social function: it offers a supply-side solution to a variety of problems in cultural and economic demand—that, collectively, people want more content than humans can supply."

Working more with adult students--many of them multilingual learners--who are wonderful thinkers and readers but struggle as writers really makes me reconsider my assumptions about the connections between writing & thought. I don't have a thesis about it but it vexes me in interesting ways!

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.

English Associate Professor Annie McClanahan talks about her upcoming book 'Beneath the Wage' (Zone Books, April '26) at UC Irvine Labor Center's 2026 Winter Quarter Research Talk Brown Bag Lunch from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Social Ecology 1, Room 315. RSVP: https://ow.ly/JjsH50Y22JT

While I couldn't be farther from it today, I grew up *deep* in the Protestant church and I gotta say that I find the singing of hymns in this context almost unbearably moving & powerful.

I gotta go eat brownies and hang with people I love because they kidnapped a baby and I'm gonna lose it thinking about all the other children they've taken that I don't know about. Be kind to yourselves and your neighbors. I'll also share this in case you're able to help www.standwithminnesota.com

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Check out this @wortnews.bsky.social interview with @anniemcc.bsky.social, author of Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work:

This thread compiles what happens to be some of the best Marxist cultural criticism of the year (including a few I'd missed!) by the inimitable @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social

first year without a Jclo top 10. I miss him all the time

I did a really engaging (for me) interview for a rad Wisconsin radio show!

Amazing expose, a must-read. "In any given work day, Asia would assume “three to five different personas” simultaneously...He was paid per message, a flat rate of $0.05 per...He also had to type at least 40 words a minute, and keep up with a dashboard displaying the total number of messages sent."

This is a wonderful list of great pieces!

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?