Roddey Reid’s book, now revised and expanded, is the best text I have found that not only grasps the full meaning of Trump, but places him in the context of American business culture. Be afraid. roddeyreid.squarespace.com/new-book-1

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

AI systems don't have to be controlled by fascist bootlickers. They don't have to be controlled by for-profit tech companies! Check out our report on the possibility and necessity of an #AICommons: oneproject.org/ai-commons/

I missed this when it came out over the summer but it’s well worth the read. @biblioracle.bsky.social

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours! Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

The #OTW is turning 18 this year! Look back with us on some milestones, and participate in our anniversary bingo at otw-news.org/yckwkcuj #18YearsOTW

Made these for fun — hope you get a chuckle at least & consider signing Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-... 💥🩷🌿‼️

Thread of the Day

I really think imagining what it would mean to develop technology for life, rather than for profit is a serious task of the political imaginary. The way things are now are so dire and dreadful, but there is also so much room beyond capitalist realism here

'OpenAI is the most prominent of many EdTech enterprises, most owned by venture capital and private equity, whose mission is to automate and gigify education, to surveil students, mine their data and modify their behavior.' We're witnessing the dismantling of the very possibility of learning itself

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

This may also be why I dislike the use of "learnings" as a noun Learning is not an object you acquire, it is a process that transforms you

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Donald Trump is not welcome in Scotland.

Just received this at home, from the Society for Utopian Studies: Utopian Studies vol. 36 no. 1, Special Issue on Queer Utopias. Props @alothian.bsky.social, @tavia.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon. Tributes to José and to Frederic Jameson, as well. Looking forward to next issue where I have a review

I have been interviewed by BBC News concerning the recent Haitang Incident: after last year’s detention of over 50 women danmei writers who produce explicit male-male romances and erotica in China, more women writers have been summoned this spring for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is terrifyingly plausible: if you want your AI to be taken seriously as an intellectual, you can't present it as a Stupid Woman

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

New article! On a complicated Fourth of July and not letting cruelty win sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/guns-or-fi...

Over and over, the language of “safety” put to work to protect epistemic and material violence. Sickening.

Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky

“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go.” Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com[email protected] www.wired.com/story/histor...

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

This is horrifying and will shorten trans lives. At the same time, we know that trans people have survived attack and erasure many times over, providing each other with love, care, and basic needs. We won't stop or be stopped. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

We’re at a point where the "news" (both local and cable) are adopting the propagandist rhetoric of the regime by describing what's happening in L.A. as "riots." They fail to acknowledge who actually incites and escalates the violence, namely ICE, the new Gestapo.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies. In response? Tear gas deployed and protesters shot with rubber bullets in LA. A WIRED guide on how to protest safely:

" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

Important thread on why we need to invest in (buy) scholarly books if we want university presses’ publishing infrastructure to survive.

So excited for this amazing issue — and my brilliant former advisee Damien Hagen’s fabulous article on trans rage and t4t love in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s novel Manhunt (trans horror version of feminist sf’s classic chromosome plague trope)

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

My response to the decision of Glasgow Pride to suspend participation by political parties. In short, the culture war against our community has gone on far too long, and needs to end.

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖 Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...

I’ve been looking forward to this book for so long and I know it’s going to teach me even more than I’ve imagined. I can’t wait to read and teach this desperately important work!

Thrilled to see this out in the wild— a true labor of love 💓 thanks to the Working Group & all the activists and academics whose work we drew on.

“Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance in a bid to improve working conditions.”

The sordid recent history of how media and political elites in Britain trampled trans rights and fomented today’s vicious moral panic

Zionist and anti-Zionist students at Columbia join forces to denounce the administration’s weaponization of Jewish suffering to justify fascist crackdowns

Thank you to Ita Segev, beloved JVP-NYC member and anti-Zionist Jew who was born and raised in Jerusalem, for sharing these powerful words on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day. 🧵⬇️

First they reconfigured the information systems. Then they used that to reconfigure the political systems. Now, they are using both to reconfigure values and culture.

This is a really good thread on that survey of how researchers perceive the benefits of AI broadly (not just AGI/genAI). It needs to be hammered home--loudly and repeatedly--that folks who support AI are, by and large, working in limited contexts with specialized/bespoke tools.

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...

On the latest episode of #MindTheTagsPod, Vee and Emily interview @alothian.bsky.social, fandom scholar and author of “Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility.” Check out our conversation with Professor Lothian below! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zv2eg-...

“It’s the kind of turn toward tyranny that needs to be condemned. Its animating spirit is destructive to values that any sane, reasonable society cares about.” Good read. www.chronicle.com/article/were...