Proposing to replace a closed Walmart in the middle of a food desert with a data center is hopefully the most capitalist thing I'll see today... https://shermanpark.org/event/emergency-hearing-on-a-data-center-at-midtown/ #milwaukee

Seen in the bathroom next to my office on campus. 👀 #noAI #graffiti #college #highered

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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI | by Cory Doctorow | Medium […]

"An attention sanctuary is both a physical and a conceptual space, and it is communal, because there are some threats that we cannot fend off alone—it is not a lack of individual willpower when we submit to an algorithm that has been designed to derail us from thinking our own thoughts." […]

Great! Another dumb start-up creating an army of underpaid reverse-centaurs! 🤮 🤮 🤮 Now that I've read "Enshittification," I can't stop seeing this stuff. @pluralistic https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/business-day-gmdkn5fhz/-/a-G2m5mIdvQj67lFup02CjHA%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

People seem to think I've become part of the tin foil hat crowd when I voice concerns about the university turning our teaching materials into AI courses. But here it is happening at ASU. This is the reason I joined my union. I hope those ASU faculty have one! […]

I see this kind of managerial thinking metastasizing across the university. And it was recently codified by the Wisconsin State Legislature (wait, who am I kidding? I mean Robin Vos) in Act 15, which gave raises to faculty in "high demand fields." What makes a field "high demand," you ask? Maybe […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116369383743382637 Making people actively consent to these often-invisible externalities of GenAI would change the conversation on campuses.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/business-and-finance-pbj3bpclz/-/a--Nq79tRKQUaZPKd1oBjEjQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0 Every day is a great day to drop Amazon! #fightenshittification

Excellent piece from Cal Newport in the NYT. Co-sign. :100_a: "Technology Weakens Our Minds. It’s Time to Resist. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html

Last stop before home! Funny how we didn't have rednecks "rolling coal" through the protest this time. #NoKings

It's a beautiful day to march for democracy! #nokings #milwaukee

#nokings boosts incoming all day today!

👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻 Congrats to those NYU workers for winning a solid contract. #AcademicWorkers #unionstrong#academicworkershttps://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-page-91uottdbz/-/a-psQTPprJQt62JlxxOtMmSw%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

I was glad to see some national coverage of this important but unfamiliar issue. #adopteesonadoption #adoptees#adopteesonadoptionBorn Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong - The New York Times […]

"Minnesota’s Hennepin County has launched a new online portal where everyday Americans can share photos, videos, and descriptions of any potentially unlawful behavior and abuses of power by ICE and CBP agents. It is called the Transparency and Accountability Project" […]

Can anyone recommend a reliable #FOSS alternative to Zoom or Google meet? I really have no idea what's out there but thought folks here would know the place to start.

In good news that made my day a little brighter: Shout out to the MCTS bus driver on my route who saw me walking between stops and stopped to ask if I needed to get on! Thank you, bus drivers! #milwaukee #publictransit #goodneighbors

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115998456593649914 First up: counter-mapping. "Counter-mapping operates on the theory that communities and governments cannot fix problems that they do not understand. When Black counter-mapping exposes the how-and-where of racism, in accessible […]

Y'all, it is the first day of Black History Month! And this year is a special one: It's the 100th anniversary of the origins of this month, which started as just a week, thanks to historians like Carter G. Woodson and others. This month I'll be boosting some learning on Black History […]

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Small towns in the Great Lakes region, like the one where I grew up, are being targeted by big tech for the secret development of massive data centers. Stopping secret data centers is a great reason to attend those village council meetings! #wisconsin #greatlakes #smalltowns #localgovernment#smalltowns#greatlakes…]

The service that records and archives proceedings in the Wisconsin state legislature has had to stop services due to lack of funding. We need these tools to keep our state leaders accountable! Please consider donating to keep Wisconsin Eye in operation! 👀 #wisconsin #democracy #publicmedia#democracy#wisconsin…]

No way, Onion. I'd take Aldi over that Bezos $h!t every day of the week. https://rss-parrot.net/u/theonion.com/status/1766067723777465704

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115623556596746949 "A healthy higher education system depends not only on producing employable graduates but also on cultivating citizens and leaders who can interpret uncertainty, question assumptions and connect ideas across disciplines." 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We had a good showing for democracy here in Holland, Michigan! We brought three generations, ages four to 75! #NoKings #NoKingsHolland #democracy

Thanks to historian John Fea for featuring my new book in his "Author's Corner"! Check out the interview here: https://thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/15/the-authors-corner-with-sara-c-vanderhaagen/

Brian Merchant and Hagen Blix on how AI is enshittifying knowledge work: "Everybody who’s in teaching knows that these things are coming in and enshittifying those kinds of domains of jobs." We need our universities and students to understand this […]

My new book is out! You can buy a physical copy from the University of South Carolina Press, or you can read the ebook for free thanks to the generous support of the Open Carolina program. https://uscpress.com/Community-and-Critique

Now is the time for university leaders to stand up to the Trump regime, not cough up millions that could be used for supporting and educating students and continuing essential research. Let's demand courage from our campus leaders! […]

Reason #2864 why I love my neighborhood: 24-hour bike race complete with drum lines and silly costumes and candy throwing and general great vibes. Happy People's Holiday! #riverwest24 #milwaukee

Happy #juneteenth! It's a day to celebrate, educate, and agitate. And maybe drink a red drink like this tasty number from chef Bryant Terry: https://worldspice.com/blogs/recipes/roselle-rooibos-drink

One of the best #nokings videos I have seen all day. Love to see our elders showing up! https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/114683774656522725

It's a beautiful day to march for democracy in Milwaukee! #nokings #milwaukee #wethepeople #flagday

Thanks to being raised in a fully disclosed open adoption, I have never had to use for-profit DNA testing to access information about my family of origin. But many, many adopted people had to use these services because they were denied access to original birth certificates and other records that […]

Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. I'm rallying on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption. Join us! https://app.sosha.ai/s/GeRdNqyS

If you are also looking for positive ways to Do Something in these times, this essay by Barbara Peterson has practical recommendations for building community-based alternatives. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/building-alternatives-key-counter-authoritarianism/

We had an enthusiastic crowd out for the May Day march here in Milwaukee, despite the awful weather! #mayday2025 #milwaukee

Harvard to Trump regime: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an […]

Milwaukee showing up and showing out! #HandsOff #HandsOffEducation #HandsOffOurUniversities #milwaukee

Yesss, Wisconsin! 🙌🏻 Glad to also see our state superintendent, Dr. Jill Underly, re-elected. https://www.wisn.com/article/ap-declares-susan-crawford-winner-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/64358025

Shout out to my Congresswoman Gwen Moore and her diligent staff! Not only does she have actual humans answering the phones; those folks are also responding to constituents with topical letters. Yesterday I got these four reporting everything she's doing to protect […] [Original post on mas.to]

Highly recommend this article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed to anyone in #highered Thank you for this call to action @jeremycyoung https://www.chronicle.com/article/hands-off-higher-ed?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_12799193_nl_Academe-Today_date_20250305&sra=true

Just in time for the last day of Black history month! My latest piece is out in the Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing. The chapter, titled "Memory Work and Rhetorical Activism," charts how Black American women have used rhetoric and public discourse to shape American public […]

Thank you, @AFTUnion, for bringing this lawsuit against the Department of Education for its unlawful threats to education. I'm proud to be a member of AFT Local 3535! https://www.aft.org/press-release/educators-sue-challenge-trump-administrations-efforts-weaponize-civil-rights-laws