Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Union Busting is (Morally) Disgusting lpeproject.org/blog/union-b...

This shows that there is a lot of grassroots, frontline and/or rank & file support for pushing back on this slop. But that cohort does not hold significant institutional power within Higher Ed. It's the governing boards, donors, & legistlators that are driving this bus into an intellectual ditch.

As seen in the table & figure above, we dissect and explain how terminology is abused and contorted by industry — terms like 'generative' or 'agentic' are not able to isolate what is being critiqued. We have seen this countless times before; flitting from one nonsense buzzword to another. 2/n

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Cannot help but view this “LLM chatbot in education“ nonsense in the long tradition of applying #Taylorism (BS business optimisation logic) to education.

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ask me how work is going. go on, ask me.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

This may be sadly egotistical or just a bit naive, but I can't help but wonder who has taken the helm of the mission to thoroughly break US Higher Education in any & all ways possible. It feels too precise to be the haphazard creation of mid-level meathead functionaries.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

One has to view this as another means of breaking US Higher Education alongside the funding impoundments, the spurious "antisemitism investigations", and the dissolution of federal agencies.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jqxb6…) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital computers.

One question that comes to mind is what happens to this infrastructure: the data centers themselves + all the rest to make the DC work, when the bubble finally bursts.

The fact that Your Party is developing organised factions before it even has a name or formal membership reminds me of the old joke about two Trot parties walk into a unity meeting and four walk out

becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy

A Chancellor may still get canned, but working with staff & students to fight back against the fascists means you get to go out as a friggin hero/martyr for academic freedom. Which, while not pleasant is still better than as yesterday's garbage, loathed by all.

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

This is an ironic callback to a very bad man who, that if hell exist, is hopefully gasping for eternity in a noxious cloud of Cuban cigar smoke. #IYKYK

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

In politics, obedience and support are the same www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/in-p...

Penn State's Eric Hayot knew he could make a convincing case in support of the value of higher ed in the face of these attacks, and he was right. We worked together on this, basing our case in Pittsburgh--but you could make the case with examples from your own community.

Give me an old egg-shell white ice box that could survive at ground zero! No microchips at all.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

@zdnet.bsky.social thanks for writing this! > The authors urge educational leaders to act "to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes and false frames to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency." www.zdnet.com/article/stud...

Then: choose your fights. Think about what matters most to you, and look for ways to fight for those things. Find people who are members of communities under threat and/or experienced organizers doing this work already, and ask them what they need. Help the people around you.

Libertarians are a la carte fascists

Fitting that it’s a song inspired by what Kris Kristofferson told Sinead O’Connor after an arena full of Bob Dylan fans booed her off the stage at Bobfest

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

This is one of the most crucial articles I've ever read. Made a huge impression on my thinking.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

American media has been manufacturing parasocial reactionaries for decades. Limbaugh, Beck, Shapiro, Jones, Carlson, Hannity, etc. The importance of these figures is not ideological purity, consistency, inventiveness, etc. It’s that they keep you company in your cab, your cubicle, on your commute.

I'm also curious to what other institutions ideological affirmative action should apply. Police departments? Energy company C-suites? Used car dealerships?

Coates nails it with the Lost Cause analogy. "The rewriting and the ignoring were done not just by Confederates, but also by putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity."

"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine." >>

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Make sure it's in paper if you can. #Print is a #RentStrike!

What’s so frustrating about this is there are thousands of flash card decks and worksheets and free training plans online to answer both of those inquiries completely. That has to be true, because otherwise an LLM couldn’t do it. But people want ChatGPT to regurgitate it to them, like baby birds

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Myth: Fascism is efficient, the fascists were the only people to get the trains to run on time Reality: Fascism is so inefficient that Mussolini couldn't even get *coffee* and *pasta* for his country, and desperately tried to convince them to eat other things via www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA4I...

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It's 100 percent worse for Black women in media. Just like it's worse for Black women in nearly every job in the country. "The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman." -- Brother Malcolm.

A very good book for thinking what state regulation of corporations means absent the presumption of democracy or market liberalism. Antitrust is now one of the most powerful levers of authoritarian consolidation. Paramount-WB-OpenAI-Oracle is not a conglomerate. It’s a state surveillance utility.

"we wish to 1️⃣ draw attention to the damage from these technologies & to 2️⃣ elaborate on the interorganisational issues, which result in downgrading these aforementioned worries to secondary and tertiary in favour of other false arguments and priorities." www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 4/n