Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

I'm fucking livid to receive an email from the office of the GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA today announcing a Proclamation asking for a moment of silence today for Charlie Kirk, who had no meaningful connections to this state, likening it to the solidarity we sought as a nation after 9 FUCKING 11.

TOMORROW. Student-led action (25+ student groups)! Organizers ask community members to SHOW UP in solidarity + bringing signs if possible.

Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

Support our local CAT Workers on Monday by riding public transportation. #SolidaritySeptember #WorkersOverBillionaires

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

did I hallucinate the cold-blooded murder of a husband and wife legislator in their homes by somebody pretending to be a cop? was that a figment of my imagination?

This has been perhaps the most important & exhausting realization I've had over my last year of organizing faculty. Real social change takes persistence over time, which only happens if we build structures to maintain ongoing work that's often incremental & banal. Organization precedes mobilization!

we are in a lawless, fascist uprising with multiple constitutional crises taking place simultaneously and this motherfucker is STILL talking about finding common ground and cooperating

The public, students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather in an urgent, peaceful one-hour teach-in with speakers explaining the current crisis in UVA governance, + and plans for action! PARKING at UVA Central Grounds Garage - 400 Emmet St. S.

Is it possible that…urbanism is a winning strategy in cities?

I understand why people in education say they're turning to this technology because they have too much to do and they think it can ease the burden, but this is not an AI problem. It's a labor problem that the AI is only going to make worse over time.

My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.

The Faculty Committee of UCWVA at UVA has released its call for the reconstitution of the Presidential search committee. They call for 75% of the committee to be from workers, students, and Cville community members, elected by their communities. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA has discontinued Upward Bound, a program that Marquan Jones credits with giving him the confidence and skills to thrive in college and beyond. He writes about his experience in Vinegar Hill Magazine: vinegarhillmagazine.com/a-legacy-of-...

If governments were serious about “AI safety,” safeguarding their educational systems would be at the absolute top of the list and Grammerly would be fined out of existence.

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Agreed, and I suggest faculty do not publicize their office hours, location, etc. on syllabi as part of this ridiculous exercise.

She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films raids Los Angeles.

What the fuck

I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat

Wrote up my main takeaway from the GPT5 debacle. I don't think this punctures the AI bubble. But it seems like the end of naive-AI-futurism. We may start judging these tools on what they actually do, not on Sam Altman's dreams and ambitions. That's a huge change. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

I wanna see the whole state of VA doing this

This is the first example I've seen of a university trying to mobilize constituents to stand up against Trump threats. There's been a lot of "wHaT eLsE CaN AdMiNiStRaToRs Do?" in The Discourse when this is exactly the thing they haven't been doing. Good for UCLA for trying. Others should follow.

"Student Council passed a resolution Friday declaring no confidence in the Board of Visitors, expressing frustration with the current presidential search process and condemning what the resolution called the Board’s failure to engage in dialogue about this process with student leaders."

Repeat after me: this is authoritarian extortion, this is authoritarian extortion, this is authoritarian extortion.

The f*&%ing library.

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

it has been blatantly obvious that the rector & vice rector were carrying out the duties of those positions before being appointed, and the rector has lied openly about this in multiple occasions including to the faculty senate, and was just as openly fearful about taking further questions

Wonderful news for and from our colleagues at George Mason University! May this good energy visit us here in Charlottesville!

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

"If Trump had demanded that these schools agree that 1+1=3 in order to have their funding restored, you can be sure that the schools would have done so, while adding a sub-clause noting that they have only the highest respect for the concept of mathematical truth."

The general lack of concern or urgency from university leaders about most of the fascist assault on higher education has been incredibly disheartening. We’re about to have every one of our Title VI National Resource Center area studies programs defunded & eviscerated, & it seems no one cares at all.

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

The retirement money of public employees is invested in firms run by Thiel, Andreesen, DOGE goons, and others who are trying to destroy the public sector. We can stop doing that. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/financing-...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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very very few Dems are competently able to message what the Republicans are doing to U.S. journalism, the media, and informed consensus. It's very very bad and the hour is getting very very late.

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

If you are able, please join me in supporting the GoFundMe to help honor Thomas Gutt Bryant, the father of Zyahna Bryant, a stalwart member of the Charlottesville community. Please click the link below to donate or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you! gofund.me/2a3b78e5

This video about how he’s “fighting his tail off” against Trump would be more convincing if Warner hadn’t voted YESTERDAY to confirm Trump's pick for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything