Only thing I have to say about BS about white men in academia "not being able to get jobs b/c of women and POC" is organizing a labor union will always be a better option than racism and sexism. But I guess that doesn't work for entitled men who think they're smarter & better than everyone already

great thread that pretty much nails the relationship between systematic lying and institutionalized hatred of poor people as consummated in those special hells known as phd programs.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

“At Vincennes there was no hierarchy among the students or the teachers⁠—none at all… It was a place of freedom, wisdom, equality. It was a marvelous, joyous, alive place. I was in charge of appointing the first thirty-six professors… ‘Would you like to join a university of dreams?’”

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere. (from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...

Resist transactional education, resist fascism: “Authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds (unless you let them). … You are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this.” ⬇️

📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle. #BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social

Everybody should read this book by friend of the pod David Backer!

AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.

historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/

This scholasticide was intentional. The world lost astounding minds. I'm so grateful for this tribute, but it could be an hour long & still not include everyone--philosophers, poets, literary scholars of all periods in world literature , physicists, biologists, mathematicians,1/

AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors. Stop ethics-washing this guy.

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

Is the “strange and wicked problem” for colleges so-called grade inflation, or is the issue the widespread cultish (and creepily punitive) insistence that grades have any place in learning whatsoever? IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL… #edsky #pedagogy #edusky

organizing is not concierge service.

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back? Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.

Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”

snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant

“You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

As a special practice for the "I can't believe we're supposed to do our routine, capitalism-maintaining things" crowd, of which I am one, let's *do something today that is not one of those things* & that's freaky even for us. (What this is will depend on what your own freak baseline is.)

Liberal arts folks are always like “Yay!! We got a Dean / Provost / President with a humanities background!” not yet grasping that this background often makes them more, not less, strategically positioned to murder all our programs. #AcademicSky

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

VT Religion and Culture is truly such a gem of a department and is absolutely stacked with amazing and kind scholars. I’ve benefitted immensely from the generosity of my colleagues and know how much we all have given to our teaching and service. The shortsightedness of this decision absolutely blows

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

The Religion and Culture department at VA Tech is a standard-bearer in humanities research. It’s full of rad people doing actually interesting things. This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy. #AcademicSky

"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Absolutely not. Because of the organization of the enterprise of AI in education around the aims of finance capitalism, "teaching AI" will result in the erosion of the educational enterprise and its further organization around capitalist, neo-liberal ideologies.

need some syllabus inspiration? check out this super thoughtful all-class final project! down with grades! up with building muscles for the futures we want to live in!

"What if the person who took the average number of turns got the A?": @schooldaves.bsky.social stopped by our latest episode with some tips on grading for communism! #pedagogy #edusky #academicsky