Really not looking forward to the forthcoming CBS News report about how George Floyd had it coming radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Good day to read about fascism, I guess.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Not them saying Bad Bunny should bring out Joseline Hernandez 😭😭😭

by Vivian Maier.

Repping for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

My villain origin story

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

I love AI

Assata died as an elder, living in freedom, not a captive. That's the beauty.

And colleges and universities are just like… happy to do it, I guess.

Reviewed Addie Citchens’s thrillingly Southern debut novel, Dominion, for @theatlantic.com, which is up this morning. Much like Lot’s wife, I’m going to turn into a pillar of salt looking back on this brilliant novel for years to come.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

So they stole it

Reviewed Addie Citchens’s thrillingly Southern debut novel, Dominion, for @theatlantic.com, which is up this morning. Much like Lot’s wife, I’m going to turn into a pillar of salt looking back on this brilliant novel for years to come.

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Penn/Philly folks! Come through for this extremely exciting event we've got lined up this week. Judith Weisenfeld will be talking about her latest book!

I now want a shirt that just says “it’s too much liquid”

As faculty, how do you search for fellowships? Bonus for residential fellowships. Second bonus for residential fellowships for those who study literature and Black Studies.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

How does anyone go to the gym six days a week?

It couldn’t be more perfect sweatshirt and shorts weather in New York City this morning

I hate it here.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Had a beautiful, chill day by the water with my daughter and my nephew

The beauty of living in Jackson Heights, Queens: two terrible drivers almost collide and yell what I can only imagine is “fuck your mother” at each other in Spanish and Bengali.

Grad students, please submit!!!

Okay now this is *actually* funny

Internet doing its best today to get me to finally quit her.

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Yes, come hear me wax poetic about my methodological love while amongst some of the more brilliant people I know as they do the same.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

A wonderful match punctuated by seeing this degenerate fool suffer.

ah yes, politics, that realm of human affairs where drama and emotional catharsis are to be avoided

extremely funny

"Our kids are crushing their coal quotas, and they're doing it in a fraction of the time." - CEO of Kidz at Work Coal Mines, Inc.

I would have thought he’d be a shoo-in for HUD.

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

I'm out and can't add alt text RN but this is judge for 'the Supreme Court can kiss my whole ass hole'

You can’t give military funerals and pardon folks that destroyed the Capitol, then expect a jury to give a felony to a man that threw a sandwich. Get real.

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

Why even have congressional hearings for cabinet appointments. All of it was lies

Just received an email announcing that my institution has created an AI assistant to help write letters of recommendation. Apparently, “saving you time while ensuring every letter is clear, compelling, and tailored to your applicant.”

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

20 YEARS AFTER KATRINA, A FILM SERIES RECLAIMS NEW ORLEANS @bealoayza.bsky.social’s tender and exacting pen looks at the film series k. austin collins and i co-curated for MoMA in reflection of katrina, “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives.” opening this evening at 8 pm.

This may just be the perfect time to re-read Douglas Turner Ward’s “Day of Absence.” It’s 60 years old this year. Do we ever need a Citizens Emergency Distress Committee. Find excerpts from the play here: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/pr...