OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Akbar Shahid Ahmed with the first report to confirm that former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the time of his tenure was asking State Department officials whether or not Israel's actions constituted ethnic cleansing.

I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

There are no words for how evil this is

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Incredible. Also though I have to say, archival research and careful reading stay winning. Good thing we are racing to destroy the humanities

Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

prepping to teach Riot. Strike. Riot for the first time since Joshua Clover passed and having a hard time not getting emotional

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

ok so it turns out there IS an actual study, and the author didn’t link to it because—spoiler alert—it’s results suggest that teachers are far more worried about student use of AI than their own lack of knowledge of AI link.springer.com/article/10.1...

apparently we’re getting sidetracked worrying about the cognitive decline that comes from reliance on AI & the impossibility of real research when students have to wade through a sea of AI slop. What is the foundational work we are skipping over? Training teachers to shove AI down students’ throats

wtf was lepore saying in those classrooms?? I taught as a grad student at Yale 2011-2015 and at U Chicago as a postdoc 2015-2017. It was nothing like this. Lepore is either a liar, delusional, or she was saying some wild things to those Harvard undergrads during BLM

“No aspect of cognitive understanding is perfunctory.” Having to insist on this, over and over again, to administrators and—god help me—other *faculty* pushing AI in colleges is one of the most depressing things I have ever experienced professionally www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

They literally ruin everything they touch

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

"What the plan describes, in essence, is a shadow logistics network built on agreements with local police under the 287(g) program. These once symbolic gestures of cooperation are today a pipeline for real-time biometric checks and arrest notifications. Transportation is the next logical step."

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

the most salient effect of defunding food stamps is to starve a bunch of kids

In great company among the initial 300+ signatures to this effort to pressure the NYTimes to live up to the barest standards of journalistic integrity in their coverage of Palestine. You can be too by signing here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

“an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida” is KILLING me

the visceral rage I feel at the way most elected democrats are absolutely fucking up their response (if you can even call it that?) to this moment. jfc what clowns

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For @aaup.org’s podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Vineeta Singh, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker about academic freedom and about the work we have to do (organize) to translate writing and thinking and teaching into action. aauppresents.buzzsprout.com/1837772/epis...

If it were me, I would simply not condescend to Mariame Kaba about what kinds of mutual aid are practical. That’s just me, tho, a person who recognizes that she has far more experience doing this than I do

one funny thing about my teaching real books thread doing numbers is that a fair number of people seem to assume I am too young to know that what I am doing used to be the norm. My dears, I remember. I used to do it. As a professor. The time when it as the norm was during the span of my career

Oh, how I would love to do this in my courses. The OP mentions how lucky she is to be able to do it, and still how hard it can be. As someone who is still in a lucky position, there are insurmountable barriers to me being able to do this. 1/?

If been doing a variation of this at my public regional in Louisiana, with much larger classes. It's a lot of work, but thee results have been very good. And I'm expanding in the spring.

Students like being taken seriously as scholars. That can't be said enough!

It is wild how difficult it is to get (or provide) a basic liberal arts college education now. For every class, a stack of books and a notebook (or several). Yes, for labs and sciences, too. Read, think, write, repeat.

A great thread on the pedagogy of books.

I *despise* Follet and this trend generally. I work admin (paperwork hell) at a community college: closing our bookstore has had massive additional affects beyond just "harder to get physical books" -- the bookstore was also a place to get OTC medication and snacks. Now there's nowhere on campus.

Y'all have no idea how hard it can be to make an e-book or PDF truly accessible, especially when DRM and other IP protection is required.

It dawned on me the other day that my local high school, built 5 years ago, doesn't have lockers. Not only do they not buy textbooks for the students anymore, they structured the _building_ around the assumption that kids will do all their reading on $150 Chromebooks.

I have had some success lately by making friends with my local independent bookstore manager and telling THEM what books my students will be using each semester. The bookstore can get books faster and is a friendlier place to buy them, even though it’s not on campus

This whole thread is really cool and interesting but the kids are alright

a very very interesting thread

Excellent thread. In my ~15 years in higher ed — mostly at places that would describe themselves as sympathetic to this idea — I’ve found that most people trying to tell you this is impossible / inadvisable is trying to sell you something

"the results show that most Americans are not buying the White House’s arguments for the compact’s measures, said [Baker]...The compact has been presented as a tool to promote [affordability and merit]...but it’s really about censoring institutions and faculty." www.chronicle.com/article/amer...

Tangentially, I recently tried to get a physical book via ILL. My uni had access to an e-version, so they rejected my ILL request. Said they would not do ILLs if an e-version was available.

Great 🧵

We're rediscovering actual college. This is good.

Y'all. Read this 🧵 and feel hope.

defend libraries

Accessibility runs both ways. For all the people who have difficulty with printed books, there are a whole bunch of others who can't meaningfully get through this 900-page PDF textbook without investing $300 in ink and paper first. On top of paying full price for the file access, of course.