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Timeline cleanse

But who among you is going to break the story about the Mets end of season collapse being driven by neighborhood opposition to Steve Cohen’s casino bid? I’m thinking layers, this story goes DEEP 😭

I feel like many proposed solutions err by (1) burning limited class time, (2) cultivating a needlessly punitive environment for students, (3) burning the instructor’s time. I’m also skeptical that stressing the value of not using AI will work for students primarily seeking a credential / 4.0

I bought the first season of WKRP on Apple TV. Pretty sure that will fix everything

We need more people if you are in NYC!

“When a human graphic designer sits down to create a design, they typically leave layers in place that can be individually manipulated ... AI flattens everything so I have to manually separate out design elements...The fonts don't actually exist so they can't easily be matched.”

I went to the Mets game and they won. Some good things happen and the rest? Working on it

Why the fuck is housing half my income

This post got an adult content label because it includes a still from Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978), directed by Chantal Akerman. Okay.

I like to imagine the other timeline, one where I can head over to all the Chantal Ackerman films at MoMA after/between work www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

“every fan at Citi Field will experience” is that a threat? As if experiencing “the Mets” is not enough of a threat.

NOT CHATGPT NIGHT AT THE METS GAME 🫠🫠🫠

Just to add- every college speaker even for individual classes, must be vetted in advance (something I’ve not seen in almost 20 years here) & she’s 🤷🏼‍♀️ about our BOT not responding to the freedom of expression guidelines voted on by faculty.

This Banned Books Week on 10/9, join For The People: A Leftist Library Project to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The ACLU has stood in principled opposition to hate speech laws for a long time. For good reason.

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

LAWCHA Statement on the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter

Prodigal son, &c.

As Ruthie Gilmore says, where life is precious, life is precious. This has never been a country where life is precious, all bleating aside.

A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.

A lot of people confidently saying AI could never replace their job, but their employers easily could and want to; they will accept lower quality and force people to correct slop into barely passable for much lower wages in a heartbeat.

researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

I regret to inform you that it is only Tuesday!

Says man who whose father and uncle were shot and killed within five years of each other

There it is.

the video in here taken by the student interrupting the professor to say that course content is "not legal" is chilling

"Every single person who has died during these cycles of actions and reprisals — around 140 people in large protests –– has been killed by the police." - @nanjala.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social

Sometimes I read the Financial Times just to marvel at the inane world we live in

A reminder to teachers who choose to add AI to their curriculum: you are training your own replacement. An AI avatar cannot actually do your job, but that won't stop some tech bro from convincing admin that it can replace you anyway.

Good evening Brooklyn College. We’re fighting oligarchy with Senator Bernie Sanders. Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/q2WCNB7...

Settling in for AFTER HOURS, one of my favorite New York movies, on the big screen and the A/C is maybe malfunctioning? Getting the full experience here I guess!

I'll be sure to pat them on the head when I go to buy a few reams of paper for the department printer with my own money because we've had so many cuts.

Whew

I would love it if SNY didn’t show Join ICE ads during the Mets broadcasts (or any time for that matter)

Just another abandoned Amazon e-bike freight cart thingy, nothing to see here

The heads of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Apple gathered at the White House to endorse a plan to help America’s children learn to use artificial intelligence, as the industry rushes to show support and curry favour with the administration on.ft.com/4nexysf

My thing is that the line between improving workflows through AI and replacing human workers with fully automated systems is non-existent for the people in power. That is the world we live in. But keep having an abstract debate about its merits without talking about who benefits and who suffers

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

Met today with an NYPL librarian who helped to plan this series. The first event (tmrw!) is sold out!* — on a Friday evening! — and the others are filing up! So glad to see critical public pedagogy about the social + environmental + labor impacts of AI. * events are also live-streamed!

“Esther Kim Lee, chair of the department of Theater Studies, said part of what first attracted her to Duke was the librarians’ expertise, and that ‘we as an institution cannot take that for granted.’”

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This is very smart — @19thnews.org has started a newsletter about menopause 19thnews.org/newsletters/...

Where are the cartoons of bloated CEOs rendered as Macy’s day parade floats farting out AI bots with a worker’s leg falling out the CEO’s yawning maw of a mouth?? The rage against the actual machine??