important analysis from a dear friend; as usual, movements got us here and they are what will get the goods out of wall street's hands truthout.org/articles/the...

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

I can’t stop thinking about the part on using AI-generated images in teaching. An illustration/reconstruction by an artist working w/ a trained historian still reflects something about the past as we currently understand it. An AI image is just based on bullshit and vibes. It’s an image of nothing.

My piece on the "logistics of waste" has been online for a bit, but I am v. excited that it is now published as part of the special discardian issue of @antipodeonline.bsky.social on "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste"! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678330...

"The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Pretty shocking read. Not in the sense of unpredictable, but in the sense that we should not become inured to these horrors theintercept.com/2025/07/07/i...

I have a new piece in Dissent, thinking through what delivering Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Nvivo completely corrupted my data in the new version, so I am looking for an alternative, ideally open source to avoid this mess in the future. Any favorite qualitative software recs? I just need simple tagging but more organizational ability than what Taguette seems to offer.

one-year lecturer position in environmental studies and the social studies of science and technology: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

tech companies prove time and time again they have little to no understanding of how boots on the ground medical practice and hospital administration actually works, but National Nurses United do and they want absolutely no part of this www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Only in LA would protesters think to tag the ground so it’s visible in helicopter shots.

Best piece I’ve seen on why AI must be kept out of the humanities classroom: Not only because writing =thinking but also bc language is how we become human. It’s how we become the specific individuals that we are. We can’t be fully human without creating language ourselves

Oh My God aka No Shit But At Least Someone's Admitting It Now

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Google is muting their AI summaries for specific questions about the impacts of Trump on society. See attached for results for the same questions about human rights, one including "under Trump" and one not. Doesnt happen when "under Reagan" is included. Same happens for a q about economic impacts

This email makes its clear that ICE has always wanted to do illegal behavior, that they despised the constitution for constraining them, and that they never wanted to focus on criminals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I read so many essays on AI's biases + dangers — particularly re: its applications in governance — and think: if you swapped "big data" for "AI," this very essay could've been written 10+yrs ago. In fact, this same essay was written, 100x, 10yrs ago. The think pieces perpetuate the ahistoricism.

What if mad cow, but for the internet.

Important story: These arrests happened last night "despite pledges from the mayor and the police commissioner that the City doesn't assist in civil immigration enforcement."

Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants

This was always the tech industry dream I've been spending two weeks each semester teaching computer science students about deskilling and feminization of labor for a reason!

It was only a matter of time. And all of this speed up, for what? To sell us more shit we don’t need.

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

Instead of starting the police reform clock in 2020, look further back in time: Rodney King (community policing), Michael Brown (body cameras and procedural justice training). We've known for a long time that police reform doesn't address the true mechanism enabling police violence: police power.

The uncomfortable truth for leftists is that a lot of low-carbon climate progress is being driven by elites who aren’t under pressure from mass movements. The uncomfortable truth for elite climate wonks is that those gains won’t be enough to stabilize the climate. We still need mass green politics.

Los ataques de alto impacto revientan la ilusión de seguridad de Ciudad de México - elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Please don't let this happen. Leave a comment today! www.regulations.gov/docket/FDA-2...

big first effect of the ranked choice system in the 2025 mayoral race — Mamdani encourages his supporters to not only support but donate to another candidate

They hate mRNA vaccines, but now they’re ALSO restricting Novavax, the only traditional vaccine for covid. For no effing reason at all. It’s been approved and in use for two years in people over 12. Now only over 65s can get it. They want us sick. Or dead.

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

like this would be party-collapsing if Democrats were in power it's just fucking maddening Republicans get to be unconscionable monsters and it's just baked in

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

It’s unconscionable.

How this would be reported anywhere else.

Israel is starving two million people and the people protesting this are the bad guys?? This world does not deserve to exist.

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵

Important story about Georgetown postdoc Badar Khan Suri who was arrested without charge on the way home in February and now finds himself in a Texas detention center: newlinesmag.com/first-person...

Collective action across campuses is the only way forward. I'm glad at least some university leaders realize this: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

“Latin American reformers know that the way to beat today’s new fascists is the same as it was in the 1930s and 1940s… in a voice simple, clear and sure, to improve the material conditions of people’s lives.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine NYU saying this today… www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...