Reminder: There’s as much “pornography” in school libraries as there was in the Super Bowl halftime show: Nada!

You can buy a rotisserie chicken at a lot of joints for less than a raw whole chicken. 🤷

These KAT free throws in dead silence like a golf course

Also: don’t let them try to use Google Scholar (for all the social scientists out there)

suggesting online search > using a medical AI chatbot may underestimate how many websites are now full of AI slop (not to mention how AI has permeated online search) this is why people are comparing AI to microplastics or a virus—there are no uncontaminated parts of our info ecosystem.

This consultation closes at 11:59 pm tomorrow.

Send a letter demanding that @brooklyncollege.bsky.social reinstate the fourth #CUNY adjunct fired as part of a political purge. No to the New McCarthyism. Three down, one to go! #BCFired4 ➡️ psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

Remember those red "SNOW ROUTE" signs? In 2013, the city quietly removed every last one and abandoned the idea of snow routes altogether. But who made that decision? And why does the city's official website still insist that these signs — and the snow routes they designate — exist?

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

My worry is that accessibility efforts, which may be served by digital access and its best practices, are inadvertently dovetailing with surveillance culture at another scale.

See Ben's thread. The sense that one could imagine having under a normal government—that enforcement will be in the spirit of genuine accessibility and disability justice—is now replaced by the nagging feeling that this will just be a weapon with which to attack universities at their discretion

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

“A wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” — Theodore Adorno. This is where my analysis of AI “ethics” is turning.

This is a literal depiction of what a threat of use of force in violation of the UN Charter looks like

If you earned a PhD in the last 5 years: who told you how to actually graduate after you defended? I'm starting to feel like depositing the dissertation is the last-mile problem for doctoral grads. You make it all this way and yet

"what if the mayor of new york actually liked new york" continues to be both jarring and delightful

I cannot believe I didn’t do this earlier

I regret to inform you that everything you said you would do in January is now overdue.

If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network. They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.

A push to ban protests near New York houses of worship is drawing growing pushback from civil liberties advocates who say it's an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. "The government can't just impose a blanket restriction on speech in that way."

"Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor." www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers dealing-with-bots.coar-repositories.org

In other, hilarious news: I found a search that broke Primo, and every week or so I get updates about what their “team” has figured out about why 85-ish junk results appear instead of the actual item. The search? “What Could a University Be”

Every time I agree to peer review something I’m struck anew by the complete lack of editorial review prior to sending it out to experts. Academia needs more desk rejects! There, I said it

I’m eating dinner at a mostly-empty bar and there is a couple sitting nearby watching the Knicks game. All I hear is the dude’s voice because it carries, and she’s soft-spoken. I can’t tell if they are arguing or if he’s giving her life advice about a situation. Either way, oof

STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT

w/ alt-txt

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Anthony Edwards, Steve Kerr. They have the ability to significantly intervene in US history today, when they are needed most, by refusing to play and saying exactly why: ICE must be driven out of Minnesota and everywhere else. Strike against ICE murders and abductions.

𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆! Saturday, January 24th You can find your early voting location here: www.vote.nyc/elections

Against all odds, I just managed to VPN into my work desktop which surprisingly already had Filezilla installed, so I could FTP into a project's server, so I could install an Omeka plugin. What year is it again?

7 House Democrats voted to give ICE more funding: Cuellar Davis Gillen Golden Gonzalez Perez Suozzi Let's be real: they are not pro-"law enforcement." ICE is not enforcing laws. They are pro-terrorism, pro-violence, and pro-corruption.

After months of stalling negotiations, the WNBA and team owners continue to ignore player demands and jeopardize the future of women’s professional basketball. Send an email to WNBA leadership demanding they give WNPA the deal they deserve. #1u actionnetwork.org/letters/wnba...

I live in NYC, but I went to college with @chrisrabb.com and support him for PA-03 because of stands like this. Abolish ICE, and don't accept any less from your reps.

It’s always Logan. Why?

If ever there was something that demands faster action to shutter an agency, surely it's the routine abductions, abuse, murder, trauma, and Kavanaugh stops. Absurd that the regime believes it has any moral authority to shame Iran as it regularly violates its own Constitution

Are you interested in teaching #CUNY history in your spring classes? Join our educators group for a winter workshop this Friday, January 16 from 1-3pm at City Tech Library in downtown Brooklyn. Space is limited, RSVP here: tinyurl.com/5n7euzme

New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I know and trust one of the organizers of this fundraiser and can vouch for it. Aimed at support and relief for Twin Cities daycare workers.

Unions representing 40k academic, research UC employees announce strike vote dailybruin.com/2026/01/12/u... via @dailybruinan.bsky.social

Played Trivial Pursuit last night and the groan this manchild let out when the question began “Which author…” 😭 I have so much work to do

🗽 Call for Proposals: Asylum in the City: NYC’s Past, Present & Future Conference 📍 Baruch College–CUNY, May 15, 2026 We welcome academic & practitioner papers on urban asylum governance in NYC and beyond. 🗓 Proposal deadline: March 2, 2026 👉 Info & submit here: forms.gle/4fEKtrXeFNJy...

I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...

We are deeply divided and no I don’t think these demonstrations are any more artificial or staged than the protests against the regime x.com/seamus_malek...