The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

For the LA Times, two brilliant friends of mine wrote a brilliant take on the "Department of War" name change: that it's good.

ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at @camdighum.bsky.social. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Wow, Kamala really had her finger on the nation's pulse in trying to run to Trump's right on immigration, mocking him for not building the wall and pledging to build it.

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The @nytimes.com just can't stop repeating Israeli talking points

The @nytimes.com prints genocide denial as 109 aid groups warn of mass starvation. Over 100 Palestinians have died from sheer hunger due to Israel's barbaric siege. 21 months of slaughter of a captive population. Gaza is a concentration camp and Israel is committing genocide: another Holocaust.

Reports of 20 Palestinians starving to death in last 24 hours. Those who seek aid are shot. Tanks and drones patrol the rubble. But even AOC votes to send Israel 'defensive' aid, as if what Israel needs is more impunity.

Trying to watch a bootleg cam of SUPERMAN (2025) because I heard it was anti-Israel but I have no idea wtf is going on. Is this a sequel? Was I supposed to watch every other Superman first, did I have homework? Is this just what comic book movies are like these days?

Being forced to watch S3 of Sex and the City and it’s clear Carrie can’t commit to Aidan and has an affair with Big because Aidan does manual labor and Big is rich (i.e. princess fantasy). It’s about class, but the show represses that and makes it about universal hogwash like ‘emo. availability’ etc

56% of Ukrainians would accept compromise with Russia to end the war. Over a million people have died; land isn't worth this much human life. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.

Israelis aghast at an Iranian bomb hitting a hospital in Tel Aviv as if they haven't bombed every single hospital in Gaza. Obviously no one should bomb hospitals, it's a war crime, but the unregistered double-standard is evidence of a pathological lack of self-awareness or shame at a national level.

Less than 0 pushback from Dems on the v real prospect of a new war in the Middle East—they're encouraging it! Besides Bernie, AOC—and the hard America First wing of MAGA. Leftism and fascism are both responses to liberal capitalist imperialism, but one advances cultural revolution, one regresses it.

We can’t defeat fascism in the US without defeating US imperialism abroad. The liberal resistance to Trump must understand the connection between fascism at home and US violence abroad—including support for the genocidal, fascist and extraordinarily belligerent Israeli regime. No kings means no war.

@jonlovett.bsky.social of @podsaveamerica.crooked.com just can't contain his establishmentarian snark. "But how will you pay for all this?" "Isn't your agenda too ambitious?" "Isn't it too commie to have public grocery stores?" "Do you condemn Hamas?" (jfc). etc etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVQ...

This is where Israel will put the flotilla aid, in their human starvation machine gun trap

LA is showing how you actually say ‘Hands Off’ to the government, which couldn’t care less about peaceful pussyhat protests, but feels deeply threatened when crowds gather to physically fight back.

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

How much you wanna bet Democrats cozy up to Elon now

Democrats are more warmongering than Trump.

A #housesparrow and a #downywoodpecker. One of them, for @heuser.bsky.social's sake, is ill-dispositioned. #birds

Why can't @aoc.bsky.social—the highest profile DSA-backed socialist in Congress who represents NYC—endorse Zohran Mamdani, the high profile DSA-backed candidate for NYC mayor *in close second place*? Ranked choice voting polls show Zohran at 46% in the final tally to Cuomo's 54%.

I have 2 incoming PhD students who can't find funding to study in the UK. (In the US PhD students are generally funded; this UK wild west is unconscionable.) Long shot, but does anyone know of any funding opportunities for PhD students in digital humanities, AI, comp linguistics, comp soc sci, etc?

RIP Alasdair, a true Catholic Marxist

Nothing worse than other people’s loud fidgety kids on a packed train

Democrats are a death cult.

gf: Let's go on a walk! me (in bed, reading Hegel): This is the sort of thing that spirit has finished with, in which spirit has no more activity, and, as a result, in which spirit has no further interest... and thereby the movement only of the particular spirit which is not comprehending itself...

Also I don’t know how naive you have to be to believe that the most medically attended-to man in the US only just discovered Stage 4 cancer a day before a book launches about his covered-up senility. He & his team lied to us so he could run, which made a primary impossible and gave us Trump.

So heartwarming to see liberals gush over a war criminal with prostate cancer.

Does anybody know of writing that sees the investments in AI as a tech sector response to crisis of overaccumulation? I am wondering if there is work I can’t find on crisis theory & the development of AI since early 2010s?

Here's my version of "post critique": After your critique Y of phenomenon X, *keep going* to some synthesis Z. This tweet brought to you by grading papers, but the "X is bad for Y reasons" argument is everywhere. It's undialectical! New knowledge requires a new Z to sublate the X - Y contradiction.

If the DNC will fight even a David Hogg harder than they fight Republicans, excommunicating him bc he thinks senile do-nothing Democrats should be primaried, then the party cannot be reformed from within and if you think it can you're part of the problem.

No food has entered Gaza since March 2, when Israel imposed total blockade. 2 months of intentional starvation, a flagrant war crime. Most in Gaza now eat 1 meal every 2 to 3 days. Israel said yesterday they will "intensify" war, occupy Gaza, and displace population. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

Proposal: Moratorium on the word "ontological". Reason: rarely used correctly, from students to people who should know better.

I'm supposed to go to the US next month for a wedding and a conference, but I might not go now—too afraid to cross the border. I tweet antizionist stuff and have a protest arrest record, supposedly wiped now but it once got me denied entry at Canadian border, which US border security probably knows.

The only viable response left to outright fascism in America is a mass coordinated general strike. 'Hands Off' pussyhat lib resistance rallies aren't gonna cut it, neither are Bernie rallies or waiting to vote if even a unanimous Supreme Court ruling has no effect.

Twitter is boring, bluesky is boring, I gave up video games long ago, I gave up smoking, I need a new addiction

Bernie&AOC are the only Dems offering a viable alternative to Trump: left economic populism. I hope you Bernie-skeptics admit you were 100% wrong, likely led astray by instincts rooted in class interest: e.g. Warren lost support when she belatedly supported M4A bc her PMC base already had healthcare

At the risk of outing myself, I find the most effective way of incorporating AI into writing is not through direct generation—which produces not just ethical issues of plagiarism but frightfully mediocre writing—but as an editor. I prompt for "does this paragraph follow well", "critique this", etc.

The Left needs to abandon the left-liberal alliance if either is to defeat the Right. catalyst-journal.com/2025/04/the-...

Only in a political climate of universal support for zionism is this travesty of justice possible.

Israel executed 14 paramedics and buried them and their ambulances in a mass grave to cover up the evidence. This is what both of our political parties support unconditionally, and opposition to it gets you snatched off the street by undercover ICE agents.

Liberals still don’t get that fascism is tied to zionism in the US. Disappeared students are Palestinian activists not ‘foreigners’. You can’t oppose fascism while ignoring zionism. Kamala found that out the hard way and these Kamala voters will too.

Hands Off having a thousand demands including ‘Hands Off Nato’ and Ukraine, but not Gaza, tells you it’s just more feckless resistance liberalism.

The UK is a country of vapers, men and women alike puffing away on usb-charged devices large and small, and as a shameful vaper ‘quitting smoking’ for years now I appreciate it. 🇬🇧

My thoughts and actions as I scroll the anodyne safe space of bluesky.

Bipartisanship.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.