And this is precisely why mandating an AI policy is punitive for educators, and not exclusively students.

Just saw the new gAI Slop crackle barrel ad…. Uncanny valley… 🤮

He is posting about it elsewhere, but props to the KY governor @govandybeshear.bsky.social. He’s standing up to the likely corruption happening at the university of Kentucky (… the most recent shenanigans). Someone needs to start doing something about the unchecked univ admins.

man ever since i saw that company handbook someone leaked it was like "how long before this shows up in a lawsuit"

I love this essay, not least because some colleagues and I just a few months ago went to Yestermorrow School of Design Build on a retreat to build democratic benches! “Public benches signify a commitment to public life. They’re a small article of faith in an ideal”

I love this sentiment. My university requires us to make clear policies on the course level, unfortunately, and now we have to write a dept one with regards to tenure. It’s contentious in my (art & design!!!… I know) dept.

“What May Day symbolizes is the concept of a common humanity and internationalism – that we are all in it together.” – @sanders.senate.gov at tonight's "Students and Workers Rise Up on May Day" Call ❤️ Learn more at www.labor4highered.org #HandsOffHigherEd

Ai companies are trying to buy credibility through Hollywood endorsements but all I see are artists permanently branding themselves as scabs

Pete Hegseth is a DUI hire.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

this is the best thing I’ve seen today by quite a bit

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages! If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Saw an ai slop sign at walgreens. It was comically bad. Like, they make money hand over fist and are happy to fire more humans to make $5 more. 😑

For Earth Day, I boiled a whole lake for my clickbait farm

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Other people have noticed this, but it's really weird how many raging alcoholics are in Trump's cabinet given how much he personally despises people who drink too much.

Oh my god, the bsky dev team is running actual site functions from their personal accounts and those functions break for any users they block? This is not how you run a company.

Privileged white men in academia still whining about/posting about DEI in 2026--what is wrong with you? What do you want? A systematic cull of academia so we only have various flavors of white men in various flavors of tweed jackets?

FPF joined more than 350 journalists in a letter urging the WHCA dinner's organizers to forcefully oppose Trump’s attacks on press freedom. The press shouldn’t stand up to applaud the man who attacks them on a daily basis. Read the full letter: whcamessagetuespm.tiiny.site

DUDE! This is huge! The endless complexity of biology is mind-blowing.

In 2007…..2007

So you understand why Trump wanted Ellison to control #TikTok and Dina McCormick to head #META. You can read and share this without a subscription. The A.I.-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube to hook conservative voters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

BLAMING PREVENTABLE DISEASE ON IMMIGRANTS IS SOME NAZI LEVEL BULLSHIT. When we say that RFK Jr. is a eugenicist...this is what we mean.

Audre told us.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

He is also promising people a "glorious future" where there will be "one person, one-billion" companies instead, which people will run while "sipping wine in Napa valley." And that the job displacements are just the prices other people must pay for his/other entrepreneurship/profits.

Palantir effectively declared war against the global majority. Eugenics, genocide and racial caste are clearly at the heart of its ideological project. AI and mass surveillance are merely the weapons to materialize its project against humanity

Tech really wants to continue the racist colonialist agenda. Now they are saying it with their chest instead of pretending to want anything progressive.

I’m excited to watch Cory Booker absolutely fail to become president. Maybe instead of complaining about the last election the Democrats should consider running candidates who people actually want to vote for? Who actually align with the electorate?

You know when you consider the alternative is fleeing to Hungary and getting paid to fluff an authoritarian dictator, reacting to your divorce by hitting on drunk secretaries at the bar at Applebees doesn’t seem so bad any more does it

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This thread. I hated teaching online and not being social but I’m glad I did my part to keep my community safe. It seriously affected my mental health. But I’d do it again to keep people safe. 😷

They are still relitigating the last election instead of currently laying the groundwork for winning the next one. And all of the candidates who need non-white supremacist, non-ableist, non-transphobic votes are very busy bashing the marginalized & disenfranchised. That’s how you lose again.

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

I'm just here for the headline www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...

In 1933, the nation's wealthiest people (including George HW Bush's grandfather) conspired to overthrow the government and install a fascist dictator who would reverse the New Deal and return the US to the gold standard. FDR swept it under the rug in return for the conspirators' compliance.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

happy 4/20

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

"A rise in femicide is the predictable outcome in a country turning back the clock on women’s rights...These killings are the natural outcome of a country enamored with patriarchy, determined to make sure that men can dominate women." Thank you, @profcrunk.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/shre...

An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal. Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government. Let's look at the data. 🧵

#OtD 20 Apr 1914 US troops opened fire with machine guns and set fire to tents in a camp of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. They burned two women, 11 children and shot 13 others. None were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9243...

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

As many have already pointed out: more people would be ‘defecting’ if there were jobs for them to go to. Also! It’s not ‘safe’ in blue states. The shit they have been doing in FL, TX, WV, KY has already started happening in NY, CA, etc. We were the canary in the coal mine and y’all didn’t listen.

We all understand that when a ceo ‘predicts’ cutting their staff by 20-30% it’s a hope not a prediction. They want to cut costs and increase profit. They also have seemingly no awareness that their company too will fail if there are no customers because no one has a job.

Right beloveds, I am looking for just FIVE projects needing… ~ transcription support for qualitative data collection (interviews, workshops, memos etc) ~ transcripts for author dictated manuscripts ~ editing support for automated transcripts ~ closed captioning support for videos, vlogs, etc