I was somewhat surprised that only 2 of the 15 contributions here (mine and Patricia Williams’) at all treat AI as a *political* question. A preponderance of the others seem to regard it as a kind of epiphenomenon, primarily related to writing.

It’s a story now when a GOP figure announces they will support a smooth and peaceful transition of power. www.wric.com/news/politic...

Don’t believe I’ve seen the MMS use the word “landslide” to describe any of Tuesday’s races. I guess only one party gets to have a landslide. Democrats merely eke out 15 point wins.

No one reads D. A. Miller’s The Novel and the Police anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.

“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”

A lot of the thinking around agency in the question of whether or not to “use” AI is clearly still focused on the level of individual choice. That’s understandable I suppose, though it hasn’t been the real tech landscape in a good 18 months I would say. More aggravating (and dangerous) though +

"If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a LMS, AI-generated content is submitted...on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work" www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

New rule: no shaming bots for stupid output until we hold our peers accountable for closer reading and better thinking themselves.

People who write chest thumping horseshit like this clearly have very little clue as to the material realities of higher ed c. 2025, where instructors—let alone students—often have precious little agency as to whether or not they use “AI”.

I have a diehard Trumper in my extended familial circle who receives SNAP benefits. He deserves to eat. Yet, I find myself wishing there was some way of squaring the circle of holding this administration accountable while not sheltering its enablers from its worst effects.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Not all heroes wear capes, and not all of them come with capicola.

”Are men who think about the Roman Empire at least once a day ruining the workplace?”

Thesis: “always historicize” is bad historicism.

Not really sure what to do when one tries to write something with as much force and clarity as 500 hard-fought words can muster and the first response (on another platform) is that there is nothing to see here because billionaires and shareholders have always, since time immemorial, etc. etc.

Social media was not a mistake. Private ownership of social media was/is a mistake, and potentially (quite literally) an existential one.

Goddard is located in Prince Georges County Maryland, a majority-Black county in a blue state. This is why this is happening.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

I participated in this @chronicle.com forum on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

AI is an academic freedom issue and it's good to see the MLA (and others) pushing on the fact that administrations are making unilateral decisions that should belong with others (including students). open.substack.com/pub/academic...

Remember all the optics from the “huge” TPUSA stadium rally at Virginia Tech a month or so back?

Today I made a discovery in the <checks notes> . . . helmet.

Not hard.

Who remembers?

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

Looking for the place where you tell a platform algorithm “Yes, I’m casually interested in this thing/topic/event/person and may follow up in the future—a few suggestions would be nice—but please don’t take this to mean I am now devoting my entire life, attention, and personhood to it/them.”

This from Ted is also usefully read in conjunction with the just-released statement from the MLA advocating for faculty representation on ed tech policy-making committees: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

I appreciate this from the always thoughtful Ted Underwood. Especially important I think is the point about the turn away from a big tech monopoly on AI. I do wish there was more acknowledgment of the actual landscape of higher ed in 2025: it’s not just “beautiful campuses,” it’s DOJ hall monitors.+

Big winners in yesterday's elections? The students, faculty, & staff at Virginia's public universities, who now have powerful allies in their fight to keep their schools' boards (appointed by our MAGA governor) from dragging the universities back to Jim Crow days.

Dear @abigailspanberger.com, Congratulations on your historic win. Please now fix UVA, your Alma mater.

Good morning, did I miss anything?

Probably about time for another diarrhea dump video.

That was a speech that was all New York while also being so much bigger than New York.

This would be the right moment for Dems to reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship (someone is saying somewhere).

Electoral politics is like, can I pull out every resource I can muster and invest every ounce of emotional energy to get a simple majority of voters to not act against their own self interest

Following tonight’s sweeping Democratic victories, we can now expect Jeffries and Schumer to start trial-ballooning a surrender on the shut down.

Bright spot that’s not a bright spot, I’m sure JD Vance is loving the brick wall Youngkin’s legacy just hit

the cia won’t see your jokes about rigging the virginia election. that’s the nsa’s job

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

What a fucking relief.

🟦🟦🟦

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

I don’t know how we fix this

Hoping for a rousing rendition. youtu.be/OD_03DPD8uc?...

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/ www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...