"Don’t you like it, Hamas whore?" Per the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, that's what Israeli guards said to Flotilla member Vincenzo Fullone as they horrifically sexually assaulted him. He was one of at least 3 members of the Flotilla who were subjected to sexual violence by Israeli authorities.

shoutout to all you introverts and/or parents going to bed at 9pm tonight

if any private corporation claims they are building “affordable housing” to “help with” the housing crisis you need to immediately burst out laughing and give them a slap

to think of how mass civil disobedience in the form of feeding digital graffiti into AI could change the entire course of this “groundbreaking” tech

same universities using austerity as a pretext for shuttering academic programs, no less. it's like schools will pay for anything but teaching and learning.

The most perplexing thing about the higher ed-AI slop craze is that universities are supposedly beacons of critical thinking — it takes barely any critical thinking to identify AI slop. Everyone immediately sees it. The hubris and arrogance of it all is fascinating.

Imagine being a higher ed PR department and instead of just paying for AI marketing slop, you hire a third party to make AI marketing slop for you. You’re imagining all universities right now.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

I’m fuckin’ shocked

I wouldn’t apply for the job due to my strong principles of not applying for jobs and they didn’t even give me the job!

Lmfao “I didn’t get the job because I’m white” says the guy who didn’t submit a complete application Can’t make this stuff up

It is amazing for some people to learn part of actual jobs in the world is behaving in ways amenable to other people in the world they have to work with, and that their ability to do so is part of what they are evaluated on in the application/interview process. But, entitlement is a hell of a drug.

But red meat is actually pretty bad for you, especially if too much is consumed over a short period of time and it’s terrible for the environment.

ai bro just quadrupling down

It is better for the AI tech bro to keep his mouth shut and let people think him a fool than to open it and remove all doubt- AI Mark Twain

AI bro crypto bro 🤝 musk stan

The Elon way

bold statement to make of a technology that can’t run without plagiarizing academics’ work.

Academics are professional researchers. AI is in so many ways the antithesis of research. But I present AI bros’ take on AI and academics.

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

LMFAO THIS TAKE Y’ALL 💀💀💀

academic librarians are the lifeblood of the academic mission

keep pumping incorrect information into all AI platforms

Lmfao

wild to see how quickly AI has completely taken over higher education marketing work

The college football coach to full fascist pipeline.

+1 but also use in-house expertise as much as possible! Smart folks exist in the university and as much as capacity allowed this can be done internally! (I’ve long been a proponent of building internal capacity)

Leticia James successfully prosecuted a self-dealing case in 2024. It’s a vector for faculty, staff and students to take action.

Guns. Ban the guns. Each and every one of them.

🧵 This sounds like a pretty clear cut case of self-dealing which 501c3’s like the New School are barred from doing but it’s rarely enforced.

As an alum, this sickens me. Just gross.

Another case of follow the money.

People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents

Yes. More of this. All of this. Do it now and don’t wait for manufactured crisis.

I‘d love to see actual ethical guidelines & oversight for university trustees

More depraved stuff brought to you by your friendly neighborhood university administrators

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

Me = excited.

It is, and I really mean this, indefensible for the University of Oklahoma to remain accredited as an institution of higher education.

Burn It All Down has returned to torch everything that is FIFA and the upcoming men's World Cup. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/17Fk... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... YouTube: youtu.be/nwb-hsnMnJ4

It's reported the WNBA players now just asking for 30% of league revenue. wagesofwins.substack.com/p/because-th... So I wrote: if we look at the entire NBA history we can’t find one instance where the men only got 7% of revenue. ... or only got 15% of revenue ... or only got 30% of the revenue.

this 👇🏿

[Insert Famous Scholar] is a perfect example of…

Noam Chomsky is a perfect example of why you should never idolize an academic or thinker.

At the end of a long semester amid [gesturing around] all this, I know two things: It remains a joy and privilege to share a classroom with my gen z comrades. And, technology has become an incredibly toxic force corroding our pedagogical social relations.

If this isn’t a perfect embodiment of contemporary higher education.

What is happening at Ursinus right now appears to be directly out of the higher ed consultant playbook. Gut the institution of those who deliver on the core academic mission to ‘cut costs’ — without acknowledging the costs of those cuts. More people should be talking about this.

No one is talking about the fact that Ursinus College is laying off a ton of faculty members and asking others to resign. They are dismantling the institution.