And most people in the US and Global North don’t realize or don’t care that American/British/Israeli etc imperial efforts are what catalyze refugee crises in the first place

Academic hesitantly starts using genAI (maybe believing hype, maybe “just for fun”) Academic uses it more, telling self that everyone’s doing it & acad admins are even encouraging it (efficiency!) Academic sees studies showing its harms & hears what critics are saying, but keeps using anyway… 1/

Well this is ludicrous. These medical associations should grow a spine

No board of trustees - whether in academia, nonprofit arts, or for-profit business - is ever qualified to anoint itself with this type of power. They do not know better, they will never understand how to run the institution, and - this is absolutely crucial - this is not what boards are for.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

Still Pride Month, bitches. 🩷

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It's the new Easter-and-Christmas Catholic and I'm entirely in favor

Last year, the Senate voted 99-1 against banning states from meaningfully regulating AI. A new proposal is again trying to preempt state laws that regulate this technology. States must be able to protect their residents, hold tech companies accountable, and ensure AI is safe and trustworthy.

The left would like rent to be affordable and trans people to be able to go to the toilet. The right is trying to start a race war.

A reminder: anti-racism is not “reverse racism.” Pointing out continuing forms of harm, exclusion, discrimination, violence, policing, and dispossession targeting people of colour is not “racism” against white people. The only people who benefit from this lie are those invested in white supremacy.

Hot take, I think that the “bumbling, incompetent dad” trope is outdated and no longer funny.   Like if you’re an adult man who can’t cook a basic meal or doesn't know how to do laundry, then that’s not funny. That’s pathetic.

your yearly reminder 💅 #bunnart #pridemonth

Sam Altman wants an actual license to kill you. This bill: the "Artificial Intelligence Safety Act"😒 would give companies like OpenAI immunity for mass murder including nuclear, biological, and radiological attacks assisted by their bots. youtu.be/34bMvXOQfEM

And when you bring it up, either as an author, a publishing professional, a librarian, whatever, you get hit with “you’re right, it’s concerning” with zero plans to address it. Straight people do not think it’s a real problem. Queer kids will.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

they're literally just grabbing schmos from craigslist and sending them to clean your house so they can record your shit boston.craigslist.org/gbs/lbg/d/bo...

Again, my evergreen advice … whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/to-cis-peo...

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

I think I might use this for my first year seminar when discussing AI in college. Here is the link to the article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Time for emergency hot takes! -many people cannot grow their own food and should not be expected to as a solution -Costco's basic membership is $60/year ($5/month) and can pay for itself in one purchase -Red delicious apples are gross -more men should use purses and fanny packs -duffle bags are bad

I think I wish that the university worked the way students think that it works. Where professors can take actions, for instance.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

On AI and doing history: I often ask my students what we owe to the dead, especially if their stories have not yet been told. I don’t think it’s the truth, since we can’t fully get at that. I think what we owe them is a recognition of their humanity. And that, a non-human entity can never give.

Love today's @marisakabas.bsky.social on AI hate (good for the body, good for the soul, good for the culture).

Many of the rationales for my AI course policy appeal to students' self interest (say no for your own sake). But I also stress (& they find it eye-opening) that inputting anyone else's work into a chatbot is unethical because it "turns over" that work w/out consent to for-profit tech companies...

Omg nooooo

So there are a couple of professors over on the other place arguing we shouldn’t worry about AI’s fake citations bc it’s impossible to read all the things you cite anyway. Very interesting choice to willingly out yourself as cheating at your job—and pretend that behavior is normal!

"We sold it to them as a replacement for their jobs, their friends, their loved ones, and every creative endeavour ever conceived by human beings, I don't understand why they're upset" Makes you wonder just how empty wealthy people's lives really are.

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

I check citations when i do peer review, but I'm mainly checking what's missing and making sure the citations i know are referenced correctly; sometimes In These Times i will go that extra mile & check for bullshitted up cites. But that Is extra. That work is on editors (and i say that As an editor)

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture from your phone.

New from @jessicawluther.com, in our magazine: Because sports have a built-in gender binary at their core, gender-expansive athletes are immediately seen as a threat. But it's also an opportunity to question our assumptions about gender and belonging.

Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Isn't the point of citing something that you read or at least looked at it? As the author, you should absolutely know that all your citations are real.

It’s harder to whitewash history if people know about history.

Morning coffee and program review. Someone has already asked why everything good is all at the same time. #kzoo20026 #icms2026 #medievalsky #academicsky

Censorship by omission, a life lesson built into AI

Rawbraining it

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Currently in the ass end of the Detroit airport waiting to go to #kzoo #kzoo2026 #icms2026. Anybody here with me? #medievalsky #academics #academicsky

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

🗃️ One thing the “AI will help you do research crowd” doesn’t understand about historical research is that we don’t (or shouldn’t!) rip documents out of their context in relation to other documents. 1/

Seen at a used bookstore in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

An information vacuum will quickly fill with lies, disinformation, AI slop, and propaganda. This is theft from US taxpayers.

The idea of "overturning" or "repealing" the 14th Amendment was a pretty fringe proposition until recently, but it wasn't unheard of. Obviously the former Confederates wanted to do that. But it was also a white nationalist talking point in the Cold War era. This is 1988.