The one thing every single one of us can count on in this life is that you will become disabled. The only variable is whether it happens at birth, in old age, or somewhere in between

Yall real silent about disability injustices because most of you don’t see disability as a thing that can happen to you. We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too

For many years, @americanstudier.bsky.social has worked tirelessly to make scholarship more accessible to a broader audience and help interject academic observations into our political discourse. He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:

I saw this circulatory system bookmark on Daniel Martin Diaz’s IG page and HAD to get one. I also got myself one of his bandannas to either wear or else use as a decorative cloth in my studio. 🐡

No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either. If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.

Shelley. Always. I owe my goddamn career to her work.

So, despite my books being stolen by Anthropic, none of my books are included in the settlement because they're not filed with the US copyright office. Or weren't at the time of being stolen. It's a cost I couldn't afford, and now I'm missing out on thousands of dollars.

That the virus was more dangerous than the vaccine was pretty clear 4.5 years ago, though an enormous propaganda machine led by our current medical establishment claimed otherwise. sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-and...

The black square page (marking a character's death) in "Tristram Shandy" (1759)

The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.

I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Tune in tomorrow for an EXCELLENT discussion with @byconniechang.bsky.social and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social from @transplanarrpg.bsky.social about how they approach dramaturgy in actual play and how it influences their storytelling. TONS of great practical takeaways for AP performers and producers.

If you’re out of ideas, invent a place where you could find ideas. An orchard of regret where the fruit on the bough are unsent love letters. A grocery store where you can buy a better childhood. You do not have to begin with something; it is often more useful to begin with somewhere.

Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

A student from a different institution referred to me as "that tender poet guy" in their email to me, and I couldn't be happier to have that reputation. I'm proud of this book and the interdependence that made it: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

One of those weeks in a series of months that have been testing every limit. But I'm here. Somehow.

Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.” #hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough

The Barbellion Prize relaunches today. Such good news. barbellionprize.org

Thanks to all those who joined us yesterday evening for the relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, a book prize for chronically ill and disabled authors founded by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. Our generous audience raised more than £400 on the night! You can donate here: barbellionprize.org/donate/

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

I can't help but think that my educational & professional trajectory is specific to when I came of age. Graduated into 2 recessions, saw entire academic fields decimated (literally), & saw the tail end of investments to diversify academic pipelines. My students are facing very different realities.

UNL-AAUP is fighting back against administrator raises while programs get cut. “Decisions are being made behind closed doors & without faculty input. We weren’t invited to the table. There’s no transparency in this process. We’ve been shut out at every turn…” — Sarah Zuckerman, UNL-AAUP president

Here is a compiled Google Sheet list I put together of over 100 regional food banks, their area of focus, and a link to their respective website. Use it for donations. Use it for resource reference.

“If we don’t protect our healthcare workers, who will care for those stricken with illness? “ And other important points. #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #PublicHealth

Please join us in our petition to Ohio State to reject the Trump Compact and all forms of coercive federal encroachment on higher education that threaten to undercut + undermine academic freedom, merit in evaluation, & institutional autonomy @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social #HigherEducation

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

“This revocation is part of Trump and his hogmen’s reworking of America’s immigration and visa system….This move also seems clearly to be part of a wider, authoritarian attack on things the government considers un-American: people of color, literary culture, and those it considers critics.”

Preparing to teach I Live in Fear tomorrow by watching this 1956 documentary about the hibakusha (survivors of the bomb). I highly recommend it. It's beautiful and disturbing. Wish I could watch The World is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ashes of Death” (1957) too, but unfortunately I can't find it

Burt Reynolds, Cosmopolitan, 1972

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you are an author and you're offering a free eBook in exchange for a donation to a foodbank, please reach out to me to have yourself added. Link to form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited. Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell. Get one: SquidFacts.net

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp. If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate We take care of each other ❤️