The College Board sux, but as Annie has been saying, the only ready alternatives are bad faith. Crucially, the conservative opposition reifies, even extends, CB's faith in standardized testing. More than recovering the canon, classical learning people want to capture & expand testing revenues.

The NYT is a parody website

That so-called “sovereign AI” peddlers are combining data center construction with mixed-use real estate while CDS hedging against the AI bubble is heating up is a bit on the f*cking nose.

Oracle’s lenders increasing CDS hedging on the companies data center commitments 🫧💥

Exciting update! bsky.app/profile/carl...

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

People are dunking on this and I get why but to be fair to Altman he has no interiority and so is altogether incapable of imagination.

Tacit admission that the AI race is actually just about selling shitloads of chips at a moment when domestic chip sales have outpaced data center construction.

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The final lines of Asad Haider’s essay on Stuart Hall in The Point: seems it could be an elegy for both writers and thinkers

At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...

We don’t talk enough about how Liebig was just out there savaging his colleagues

Another year of unimpeachable good taste by yours truly!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... worth listening to - with @jraden.bsky.social

'Potemkin AI' really sums up everything you need to know about the delirious AI bubble dragging us all to hell

No one has ever received a funnier text than the one I just received.

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

hey so that sounds like total shit. really fucking awful. bleak. soul and society destroying. world eating levels of bad.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

If you haven't checked out Carrier Bag, a new site for art and politics, I highly recommend it. Excellent videos posted recently from symposium organized by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger on Art in the Age of the Average. carrier-bag.net/focus/art-in...

Excellent piece by comrade @jraden.bsky.social

"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."

now do uni admin

CEOs, the most easily replaceable “workers”

Brb, gonna see if my landlord will pay my rent for me if I go broke at the casino

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

A huge thanks to @llassabe.bsky.social for inviting me to spend some time talking about AI in higher ed on American Campus!

New podcast banger just dropped @jraden.bsky.social: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Lolololololol (this is not investment advice)

Well, I’m convinced!

"aggressive accounting" is a fun euphemism

Sentimental Value is fundamentally a film about Scandinavian knitwear

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities? MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

Lots of university strikes happening at the moment (from the UCU union) over the funding crisis and cuts in the sector. Via StrikeMap:

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“indefinitely” 🫠

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

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Guy who sold out US competitive advantage in slop machine race to China: “Oh no! They’re gonna build better slop machines!!”

Cuomo sounding pretty enthusiastic for a guy who just got his ass very publicly handed to him.

Damn, I guess we’ll miss out on hearing Ackman chant “MNYGA” 🤷🏻‍♂️

if Mamdani PR is listening I humbly request a victory speech cut to Mobb Deep

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

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Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.