Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

If you are too young to remember Surya, she was a fucking ICON. The only person in history to do a BACKFLIP with a SPLIT ON THE AIR, which she’d land ON ONE FOOT Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...

there's so much disrespect of romance writers and romance readers baked into the idea that AI-driven production of novels is 'better'. as if writing romance isn't skillful, hard and joyous work. as if romance readers aren't discerning, loyal and savvy.

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

If you want to explore whether a company you buy from works with DHS/ICE, there is a real simple website to do that! www.usaspending.gov/search

And the full documentary of "Sheer Good Fortune" is on Kanopy if you have it. “It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. ” - Toni Morrison, Sula #Lit #BookSky #BHM

Two things you need to understand about our growing surveillance state: 1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day. 2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself. This is your life, starting now.

I'm very fortunate that when I was young and knew everything, social media didn't exist the way it does now, so a lot of my blustering and bad ideas floated off into the ether. Eternally grateful for that.

politicians aren't "owed" anything. they are public servants. "but i'd be sad if i retired" who CARES. if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.

Hey folks! A friend on the ground in the Twin Cities has shared another wishlist with me! These supplies will also go to support folks who are walking patrols & protecting communities! There are many ways to join the professional pop-up leftist supply depot bankrollers! 💓

This is why I'm not overly cheerful about the Bovino news. The administration is still carrying out its Dirty War

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

“They need better training” is just the liberal way of wanting nothing to change but also wanting to feel good about nothing changing

For all the folks who insist that AI can be a great part of a student writing assignment: Which part of the writing process do you think is unnecessary for students to experience?

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

In their racism addled brains they think Step 1 - deport all the immigrants Step 2 - resegregation Step 3 - send US born Black people to the fields

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Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

FERPA be a fence

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise. anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading I don't know how to reach those people

I do think formal and informal faculty groups need to be thinking about their boards, how they are constituted, and what routes to change exist. The time of assuming that faculty no-confidence votes mean anything has passed.

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...

This is horrifying -- I started following this guy who walks through AI video and "tells" / sometimes best practices. It doesn't mean I can tell necessarily, but it did help me stop assuming things and actually go check stuff: www.instagram.com/showtoolsai/

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

My favorite piece of content today.

“Everyone that I know who works or studies at UNC understands that we have to protect ourselves, because no one in the administration will help with that.” – Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP

I’ve never had to ask ChatGPT anything I have a phone full of autistic people with hyperfixations, I can just ask *them* about the Mayerling Incident

I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

Since these will not be professional degrees they will not be eligible for federal aid or subsidies of any kind. note Education is on this list.

Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research? It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.

The triangle has one of the highest concentration of academic libraries in the country. I’m pretty sure all of them have makerspaces🤔