When people tell you who they are, believe them

So tired of hearing how decent a man Keir Starmer is when he supported and facilitate Israel's genocide, hired Peter mandleson and fought tooth and nail to maintain the two child benefit limit only to claim credit for abolishing it...

My informed take as a publisher is that the tethering of job security and academic freedom, in the form of tenure, to a book of all things is a disaster.

Corporations and their shareholders are actually making money from the mass detention of migrants in concentration camps. These corporations poured money into Trump's campaign and are benefiting from human misery and exploitation.

Fucking incredible. Play this for every university administrator in the nation. She says AI is the next “industrial revolution” and all the students BOO loudly. And then when she says “a few years ago, AI was not part of our lives” they all CHEER. She is shocked by their reactions. I am not!!!

It's a mystery to me why college graduates on their big day thinking about a dismal job market and an uncertain future would boo the "job killing machine."

Or, perhaps an even worse thought...

Raided the cellar for this gem

Actually this is VERY stupid

have now given 5 public talks on the iran war accelerating the energy transition, and the look on people's faces (😍) when you show them Hormuz.... slides: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... Polycrisis essay with @katemac.bsky.social: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

Provost said - and this is an exact quote - "we are scholars, and we are driven by curiosity" and then proceeded to completely dismiss all forms of knowledge that don't bring in millions of dollars in grant money as useless if not burdensome.

Hell yes pizza night

Underappreciated I think the extent to which the GOP is acting a bit like a vangaurdist revolutionary party, willing to break anything and everything and not worried about only having a minority of popular support, with the conservatives- the Dems- trapped in their commitment to process and rules

Worse. Here in Florida voters did weigh in — they passed an anti-gerrymandering amendment overwhelmingly, and DeSantis just ignored it knowing the Republican courts would support him.

The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act when Republicans raced to deliver on the promises of the court’s decision: the decimation of Black political power and a revival of Jim Crow-era voter suppression. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/08/g...

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

Condolences to the faculty and students being asked to come up with individual solutions to the structural problem of admin having outsourced higher ed to for-profit, PE-owned third-party tech companies

Really digging this choice citation from the ACLS/AHA/MLA lawsuit against NEH/DOGE. From Chiles v. Salazar: “In this Nation, no official—‘high or petty’—may command our tongues or silence our voices."

He crashed the economy. Government, markets, and media will pretend he didn't for as long as they possibly can. But he did, and that will become increasingly apparent in the coming months. The country and world cannot adjust to an energy supply crunch of this size without economic disruption.

I am planning a garden this summer, folks, and you should too. The President’s farm policies have caused, at what is now, a 46% bankruptcy rate in the farm economy. Again, USAID and SNAP and Tariffs subsided farmers: they were a crucial set of exchanges to maintain independent farmers.

RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Plain and simple. He's ignorant of science and medicine and lives in a conspiracy-addled world of his own mind. He's is destroying American public health and biomedicine.

In the span of three months we’ve seen the Einstein agent chasing SSO credentials, ASU Atomic slopping instructor videos, & now the ShinyHunters hack. Maybe it’s time for us the recognize that what makes Canvas a “matrix of vulnerabilities,” as Marachi & Quill put it, is getting worse.

Fun times

Great news -- but now stop impounding and diverting the funds and send them out!

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War is the extension of politics by other means so when your politics are a fu**ing joke, so is your war

Please God let me finish my grant

Every CFO at every Canvas institution should put a stop payment on the next SaaS withdrawal. Things do not get better from here.

Think of this as an absolutely gargantuan bet placed by the investor-class on a future of inescapable fascistic mass-surveillance...

Lol

People can speak in multiple ways depending on the audience. There is a strong case for the necessity of technical, specialized vocabulary when communicating with other researchers. It’s not a choice between public engagement OR specialized research. It’s that we need BOTH / AND.

YES!

Lol wut

Putting "A Nation of Pissbabies" down on the list of possible titles for my forthcoming history of America in the Trump years

I do love checking the mail

How do Democrats "talk" like they're "in a college seminar"? What does @barackobama.bsky.social think goes on in a college seminar? Why do Democrats hate higher education so much?

I'd like to thank @korystamper.bsky.social for her acknowledgment on p 268 of _True Color_ that "No writer or researcher ever 'discovers' something in a professionally held or managed archive, just like Christopher didn't 'discover' America" & thanking "...the archivists, accessions specialists,

And, yet, here once again is Randi and AFT playin' footsie with the techbros in another cash grab. www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

So this is what the Ds are settling on. Ds are running around using big words and fancy English and scaring the wee ignorant poors.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Nolan is being so disrespectful to Homer who obviously cared a lot about historical accuracy and had many peer reviewed works. Most people don’t know but the Iliad was his dissertation and he wrote the Odyssey to get tenure.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...