One thing that has not been considered over the past week of Discourse, is that Dems, in general, might not WANT to fix climate, which would mean that the groups saying that Dems shouldn’t talk about climate are actually providing them with cover rather than genuine counsel. 1/2

Two organizations doing important work, both worth following — the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org, and the Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social.

suave /swäv/ (adjective) Charming, confident and elegant #birds 🌿

Tomorrow, May 14, UC workers with AFSCME 3299 are going on strike for better wages, housing assistance, affordable healthcare, and job security. At HELU, we stand in solidarity with @afscme3299.bsky.social as they demand what they deserve. See you on the picket line!

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Please consider donating to help my incredible friend Camille, whose livelihood has come under threat due to her unwavering support for Palestinians. The price paid for defending human rights shouldn’t be astronomical legal bills as a result of bullshit complaints from pro-Israel groups.

The NYU administration won't let students speak live at graduation for fear of them mentioning Palestine, but the anti-woke headliner they selected blames students for shielding themselves from ideas they might find distressing. nyunews.com/opinion/2026...

The 9-hour White House event, with mostly evangelical Protestant speakers, tells one story of America's founders, and their religious vision for America. We talked with historians who say the reality is much more complex -- as is the present. 4/4 www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

Yup, just let faculty do research and instruction, instead of creating unfunded administrative mandates that faculty have to fix (like Canvas) or spending millions to prevent them from unionizing (like Maryland).

“Shared governance is not a slogan or a problem to be solved. It is the mechanism by which universities protect academic freedom and intellectual integrity, and it is central to how I think about my work as an administrator.”

You rarely get to see the rainbow of colours in a Bufflehead's face, but I caught this one in just the right light. #birds 🌿

his 98th birthday would have been tomorrow! youtu.be/yrsuLCF9FtI?...

People who don't use their turn signal have forgotten what it was like to be a child, and the inherent joy in pressing a button, turning a dial, or flipping a switch.

Devaluation and extraction go together and have done a number on the humanities. It would great to find a way to stop feeding the beast before we're all consumed. Anyway, just talked myself into my own quit-lit so we will leave it at that.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

"Trauma"

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

Last month observed record high temperatures averaged over the Southern Hemisphere. Note also the long-term warming trend in this visualization, as displayed by the color shading from blue (older years) to red (recent years). Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

A Mother’s Day reminder that every mother loves her babies 🐮💕 Thanks to The Little Red Barn Sanctuary, Mrs Calloway and Lucky will be able to stay together for life - a rare chance for most cows 🥺❤️‍🩹 Clips thanks to the amazing thelittleredbarn_sanctuary (IG) #dairycows #mothersday #mothers

#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

Lessons from the educators: The most valuable conversations around education begin with realizing you want the students to learn how to think for themselves, not outsource it to a mediocrity machine.

This is what we mean when we say that "AI safety" is a eugenicist project. They fear an ultra-powerful AGI that may kill us all. Meanwhile, this Colossus 1 data center is already killing Black people in Memphis.

Look how much information can be inferred about you just from visiting a web site. Individually, none of this is malicious. It’s how we build and deliver a website that works across any given device. Something to be aware of. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

One thing that there will never be in overabundance are wildlife overpasses/underpasses. Humans have disrupted migration routes that have been used for millennia by animals. These measures are the very least humans can do to mitigate that damage.

Since the "ceasefire" the Netanyahu govt has steadily taken control of more territory in Gaza, squeezing civilians into tighter areas, pushing them toward the sea. Where the hell is the Trump Admin & its so-called “Board of Peace” amidst this land grab?

Western Bluebirds have a scintillating blue Let me take this time to remind everyone once a year… you’re not looking at blue pigment The feather barbules are structured so that blue and only blue is reflected towards your eyes Nature’s magic trick 📷🌿🪶

Monocultures are fragile.

In the comments: ”I'll just note that Canvas is no longer a pedagogical tool; in its current iteration and ownership structure, faculty and students are trapped in a digital learning environment that mines our labor without consent or privacy and intellectual property protections.”

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.

To put it a different way, STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WITHIN THE SYSTEM ARE NOT THE FAULT OF THE PEOPLE REDUCING THE HARM WITHIN THE SYSTEM. Many of these folks are the same people who argue that it's impossible to be an abolitionist lawyer because our presence legitimizes the system.

“This is a great American biblical foundation principle: that people should work.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is a strange thing to say about a country founded by non-working slaveowners on stolen land.

Angelo De Augustine ~ All Your Life #music 🎶 "Oh thought I'd go and leave Anyway time recalls All your life All your life All your life Mmm, you can't believe That a match dipped In gasoline Has the power to lift You from this dream One I thought..." youtu.be/KKlGY1iz-z8?...

Torn between "god this has screwed my weekend so badly" and "let canvas die so we can all be free."

Y’all should really read this entire piece— it’s even wilder than what’s been said here. This should be massive international news

Genuinely frustrated I didn't think about this sooner, but let me send it along in case that's anyone else too

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

RFK Jr’s son has Long Covid. His kid was disabled by the virus and he still pushes the incorrect and eugenicist narrative that only the old and sick have to worry. His kid has a chronic disease now. His kid IS the “expendable”. This man is a monster.

I don't think AI is going to take all our jobs, but I do think it may create a permanent underclass of people who cannot think, problem-solve, or communicate on their own If I was conspiratorially minded I might even suspect that's the reason people in power are pushing AI so hard

This is what animal rights activists think of whenever we hear people complaining about the "cost of eggs". Here is the real "cost" #vegan #animalrights #animalcruelty #eggs #farm #animalfarming

A lot of people processed nothing from the pandemic and obediently stuffed it all down into a secret mind drawer as soon as someone official told them to stop thinking about it anymore. Being capable of confronting inconvenient reality… continues to allow you to be capable of it.

Josh Turek in the Iowa State Senate Democratic Primary debate said the first bill he'd introduce in the Senate would be to push a bill that would end subminimum wage for disabled people. #CripTheVote

PS, as context for those unfamiliar with ME/CFS. There is exactly one facility in the world set up to care for people w/my condition: a 12-bed unit in a hospital in Norway. The US, where I live, has no appropriate facilities. So what will happen to me past my parents’ individual caregiving is… yeah.

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-...

Traffic-calming is good; reducing actual driving is great. Go for great.