AAUP-TNS explains how the New School is vanguard in its approach to cuts, but its a model that will be rolled out elsewhere. Our fight is your fight! Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it. Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

realizing it’s not just administrators’ salaries that are sucking the life out NSSR but that they spent 800k to get Busta Rhymes to play a failed fundraiser (a fact I learned from @kmunro-econ.bsky.social) is just too fucking much. get me out of this badly written satirical novel.

They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

I published this book four years ago, drawing together a decade+ of writing. At the time I noted on Reddit that some SV types took the title as a challenge: "not *yet*; if we can just perfect the model, we'll have full-on automated luxury libertarian urbanism!"

Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.

Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Every presenter giving a talk with AI generated images. Every person suggesting using AI to generate survey questions in a discussion. Every person pulling up ChatGPT to come up with "suggestions" in workshops. Every academic using it to review papers. I think less of all of them.

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

NIH-funded research ftw. www.umass.edu/news/article...

Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs. 👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

I study tech’s capture of government data, and this is a new low even for me.

today, 11/06! Book launch at NYU *Decolonizing Afghanistan* (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2025 )with MATTHIEU AIKINS, WAZHMAH OSMAN, ZOHRA SAED, MORWARI ZAFAR! Come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZG...

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

billions of ticketing records are sold to the US government; the DHS, and records show agencies like ICE, CBP, ATF, TSA, and others. @josephcox.bsky.social found a way for you to opt-out of this in this essential guide to prevent even more gov surveillance

"Policy analysts say the free public records, such as state payroll databases, often lag by months. They may be too outdated to satisfy the new law’s requirements that Medicaid enrollees prove they worked the month before they apply." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

Ok I needed this 😂😂

If Trump’s fascism is so bad, why aren’t the students protesting? We asked three right-wing oligarchs who bullied their alma maters into enforcing total bans on freedom of assembly on campus.

It's fine & true to say that in some of these fields there aren't really jobs but the better perspective is to emphasize that there's so much to be investigated in these fields-yes, even in German literature-and so fewer opportunities for that investigation is a bad thing for culture and society.

NEW, from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: The FTC is disappearing blog posts about AI that were written during Lina Khan’s tenure as FTC chair www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

This was truly one of the best panels of today #AoIR2025

I hear there’s a new wave of Twitter people headed this way. I know we don’t talk about them much anymore, but I made a starter pack ages ago you might like if you’re into critical tech work and Luddites.

On my way to #AoIR2025 Come say hi if you're around!

“Without the data center boom, we’d probably be in a recession...” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

🫧The news is finally asking if we're in an AI Bubble, and when it will pop. Good!🎈 Our data shows how we got here: Big Cloud is frantically investing in AI startups to build cloud market share and justify their *massive* investments in AI infrastructure. How Google, Microsoft & Amazon invests:

This is huge!! Congratulations & gratitude to everyone involved in this case and, of course, @aaup.org!

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Our special issue is finally out! 🎉 With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities. Please read, share, and let us know what you think!

read the entire thread. this is why I've been talking nonstop about how capture of data re: meshing, uniting disparate stuff and capture of institutions should be our focus as much as surveillance. that's been the gov-tech vision for a while. I wrote more here: www.baykurt.org/wp-content/u...

Our special issue is finally out! 🎉 With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities. Please read, share, and let us know what you think!

Trump to Erdogan: "He knows about rigged elections better than anybody. But when I was in exile, we were still friends."

To anyone who followed Aadhaar’s rollout in India, the language is uncanny. Aadhaar’s ‘savings’ were derived from welfare denied. Countries need to pay attention to the language around surveillance tech in other countries. We’re all stumbling over different iterations of the same problems.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

3. It’s always interesting which crime is being tackled by govs - tax evasion, which is 1 of the biggest crimes that are actually hurting our countries - is never discussed or handled. So billionaires and tech companies who do not pay appropriate taxes are getting away with crimes... ->

2. When tech companies take over our public bodies, their logic also enters and reshapes how we understand our societies - in terms of efficiency, profit, and productivity. See Burcu Baykurt's @baykurt.bsky.social fantastic article about "Gov-tech as capture." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ->

I was interviewed for France24 about the USA reviving a contract between ICE and the owner of the Paragorn spyware in order to "help" ICE's work. www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-... Some of the things that I said that didn't get into the article were ->

Hello #4S2025! I’m looking forward to seeing friends in Seattle and presenting "Avoiding the F-word: How Test-Bed Urbanism Ends" this Thursday! And always happy to talk about the political economy of smart cities, government tech, infrastructural futures—come say hi!

Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.

This is a fantastic paper in our forthcoming special issue!

"Again, we fully appreciate that the alternatives to settlement would have come with their own formidable costs and risks. It would be deeply unfortunate, however, if Columbia’s settlement were to become a model for the rest of the academy."

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚