on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

They’re against democratic legitimacy, which is premium-grade legitimacy; but they’re against nationalist legitimacy, communist legitimacy and even royalist legitimacy. They want to rule unaccountably, and they are opposed to any theory that could hold them to account.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

"The list of reasons to resist this latest edtech mania is long — from the practical to the philosophical, pedagogical to ecological, egalitarian, and ethical." There is growing concern about health, sanity and safety...

2026.1

sweet jebus what are y'all viewing tonight to get a little ulcer breathing room

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.

Impeach, convict, remove.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

chicago federal plaza today 5pm

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

the tv logic of friday night massacres is the only consistent spine

Americans should accept that the US second republic (the one that lasted from the civil war until Trump) has come to an end and a new constitutional convention will be needed to found a third

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"The WFTU calls upon its members, the class-oriented and militant unions all over the globe to express the unwavering support to the people of Venezuela..." Statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions www.wftucentral.org/wftu-condemn...

at last a worthy resolution

Spent the last month in a work sprint to get a bunch of stuff done before the new years. Then, on the day when I turn in my reviews, I get my author copies of Living in a DAISY Age! It's very, very surreal, but amazing, to hold a copy for the first time.

Hey friends! I’m psyched that so many folks want to read Mary Shelley’s prescient climate/pandemic apocalypse novel, THE LAST MAN, in community, in this, its bicentennial year. #LastMan200

OpenAI Co-Founder Donates $25M To Trump Super PAC

real ones drink iced coffee year round @rezekjoe.bsky.social content

Scholars Fired/Suspended for Opposing Genocide in Palestine Featuring: Eric Cheyfitz (suspended, Cornell), Jodi Dean (reinstated, Hobart & William Smith), Maura Finkelstein (formerly, Muhlenberg), Sang Hea Kil (formerly, San Jose State), Ramsi Woodcock (suspended, U Kentucky) zoom.us/webinar/regi...

january labor notes + other reasons for living: "The contract expires for 29,000 U. of California UAW academic workers. They will join about 12K other UC workers already bargaining for a 1st contract." over 25% of UAW is academics! october: o'brien out!! www.left-notes.com/p/a-socialis...

"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart." www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

the best scorsese

Ham with a Jewish mother

spent the first day the way I shall spend the year, making tiny biscuits and our traditional Jewish bourbon ham, for loved ones, neighbors, and real life bsky buddies. build up, socialize to organize, ham n jam, hugs and hugs some more

Now reading. Best handbook yet for the AI hysteria era. Laser-focused on question of profitability and value capture instead of personality and projections, on enterprise instead of chatbots. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

#AccidentalAbstractions, Times Square NYC, January 1, 2026, early morning

new quarter century more art more good

#5 of seven fishes brought by master @sbrodsky.bsky.social and now adieu 2025 happy delicious solidarity to come

#1 of 7 fishes

our top blog post of 2025 was a detailed analysis of rainfall metrics and stormwater management. go figure.

Thank you all for supporting my ACLU fundraiser. We've raised $625 so far! I just updated things for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. Fresh copies are available in my store: www.etsy.com/listing/4334... #vastearlyamerica #c18 #nokings #commonsense #letterpress #printmaking #aclu #thomaspaine

thankful for the bsky pals who filled 2025 with big ideas and big lawls despite the big terrors; wishing the goodies a vastly better 2026

2025 writing write-up, seize the wins in a lossy sea: big year for academic labor organizing, university grant crisis organizing, +chicago community organizing; all of that kept me far from writing only 2 new academic articles, 2 new magazine pieces, 1 new translation AND this! against-a-i.com

The year’s end is a terrible time, and the year’s beginning is a worse. —Henry James, letter, January 1, 1893

Every major city oughta have their own book review. Well done.

2025 writing write-up, seize the wins in a lossy sea: big year for academic labor organizing, university grant crisis organizing, +chicago community organizing; all of that kept me far from writing only 2 new academic articles, 2 new magazine pieces, 1 new translation AND this! against-a-i.com

The only deal with the trump regime that I can endorse: one that comes in the context of an ACLU lawsuit www.aclu.org/press-releas...

well played, december 31st word of the day, so cutting for all our year-end writing write-ups

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

If AAUP's 2025 can be summed up in a phrase, it would be: Organize, Fight, Win! We will remember 2025 as a year of membership growth, mass actions against Trump's loyalty oath compact & major legal victories for the AAUP. We invite you to organize, fight, and win with us in 2026!

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

all we want for xmas is dumbpolls a). platonic OR b). pluribus

"All the wrongful-death lawsuits against OpenAI quote disturbing responses from ChatGPT that appear to show it validating a person’s desire to self-harm... " www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @nitasha.bsky.social