Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.

This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.

NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9

The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education. Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.

why is it always “the president is late” and never “the late president”

ok the new iOS isn’t all bad if it makes my lock screen do this

I was not one of the people who talked to the mayor (elect) in his homage to Marina Abramović, but I very much appreciated this write up in the New Yorker Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This is why I remind my students to be careful of using the phrasing "of course"—and why historical consciousness is important as well. There were generations of artists, from Ashcan School to Abstract Expressionists to East Village artists in 1980s, who found NYC an affordable place to live & work

Rob Reiner gave us a lingua franca that connected us to fellow travelers for DECADES. He made American culture classic, memorable, accessible, poignant and unpretentious in a way few have. Devastating.

just horrible that you can put so much good out in the world and just get the absolute worst the world has in return.

Holy shit, Rob Reiner. What is happening

My mother's response to me telling her Pete Alonso left the Mets: "Maybe with a new set of people they will win." Damn Ma

Never forget

Every org has a couple of old heads in nondescript positions that functions as the organisation's memory. "Susan will know". Until Susan retires or is replaced with a generative AI...

“Wages for housework was a means, and its end was the destruction of capitalism.” 💪💪💪

I can’t do a pull up AND I am definitely trying all the cookies. But I did the reading before opening my mouth, and if I didn’t I’m keeping my mouth closed, so score one for me

“Trust is a cultural expectation for us, and that expectation reaches each member of our community and into our shared governments. If it needed to be said explicitly: surveillance kills the faith that students are expected to invest into this institution.”

it’s weird to have people — students, colleagues, randoms — tell me that genAI is inevitable so why bother helping people understand how bad it is. like are you not fighting or shouting about, I dunno, climate change? fascism? do you not understand how genAI is aligned with both? get a fucking clue

This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

This! Take time to plan and fortify and relish the world we want to build. Libraries can be such a central piece of that.

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Check out @aaup.org's recently published report, "In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates."

Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Sometime last year, a CUNY alum contacted me saying they’d found some photos they took at the 1995 protest against budget cuts and would I please take them so they could clear out their attic? They arrived today and they DID NOT DISAPPOINT

It’s Saturday night and I am editing PDFs (for reasons) and this section on assessment from a 1999 writing text jumped out at me, not least because of all the ~discourse~ on here about student writing

What really sucks is that one of the founders of Tekserve has died at only 72. Tekserve was THE PLACE to get your Mac fixed forever. @daringfireball.bsky.social has it right: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

I have turned the carcass into stock. It’s the flossing teeth of thanksgiving, it’s so easy and yet

If you're not paying attention to the weakening of accreditation you are missing a huge piece of the reactionary transformation of higher ed. This is how you create structural change that will last for generations. The implementation of Project 2025 continues apace.

Why on earth did everyone decide it was necessary to give a one week warning for giving Tuesday?

brb putting together a darkroom in my bathroom

Jimmy Cliff’s death reminds me sharply of the utter centrality of public libraries to my mind and heart: I definitely checked out The Harder They Come soundtrack from my suburban NJ library when I was still in high school because I had read about it somewhere. And off I went from there!

CUNY admins tell us they support academic freedom, but then they make us take this dystopian Title VI training designed to make us fearful in our classrooms that actually implies the exact opposite. Read the @cadhe.bsky.social statement about this two-faced position.

The better thing to do is leave Chrome. I'm begging people, leave Chrome.

is zohran president now i am a few hours behind

Academic library leaders, come join us at CUNY! Application review begins 12/10. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

We're hiring an editor in our New York office! Apply by December 1st, 2025

DC statehood now

You guys, the Museum of the Moving Image is showing HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A on Sunday with Barbara Kopple in person !! movingimage.org/event/harlan...

A lot of people not in nyc don't even realize he's still the mayor. Yes he's in Israel. Why, I don't know. The new mayor gets sworn in on New Years

The “mass production technique” here refers to mass prosecutions, an earlier iteration of mass deportation policy that has been aimed at Mexicans in Los Angeles for my entire lifetime

NEW: Federal agents busted into an Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video and an account from the family.

It me

The company, Bookmarked, pitches itself as an “antivirus for libraries.” It promises to scan thousands of titles and alert schools — and even parents — to books that could cause “board liability” or “media attention.” 2/ www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

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Who is this Olivia you speak of? (please, don’t pierce my bubble)

He is still teaching and mentoring students. Harvard should remove him from the classroom and start a disciplinary process immediately.

This is the way

I’m watching the Sixers-Clippers game and the broadcasters keep talking about Lue and Iverson and every single time they say “AI” my heart panics until I realize which AI they mean