Honey, this isn’t Plato. You’re in the cave. Deep, deep in the cave.

Sounds like good advice.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

I'm here for any politician who offers this for public schools.

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

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I have to say I'm genuinely surprised no one has added a thesis of their own messing with my numeration yet. Everyone is being so not internet about this one. I appreciate you. 🫶🏼

No aspersions cast on my friends on the tenure track who had to write books about DH. You gotta do what you gotta do. 🫶🏼

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

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Agreed.

Check it out. Frederik built a static site/minicomp digital collection using Pelican. For the Python crew.

Updated list of Google operators. Some new stuff in the mix. Some old stuff doesn't show up. I need to test later to see if some of the old deprecated operators still work. Some of them worked long after the expiration date.

That didn't take long.

So far the second thesis is winning in likes. I'm big fan of #1 myself, "close reading is a genre of writing [and not of reading]," but that's attached to the start of the thread so I have to take it out of the tally. Oh, well. More theses to come too.

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

In this week's class we're exploring the past/present/future of reference resources — dictionaries, almanacs, field guides — and the kinds of search + discovery they made/make possible. Feeling lots of nostalgia for their analog completism, the absence of algo's delivering tailored results, etc 🥹

Having spent the better part of a year writing a ~300pp ms. on just 1 poem by Césaire, and seeing how y'all are talking about it, I would like to offer a few Theses on Close Reading over the next few days: Thesis #1: Close reading is a genre of writing.

I'm pretty sure when that golden day comes, people will spontaneously celebrate in the streets of all major American cities, and quite a good chunk of small to mid ones.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Absolutely agree. They should not exist as such. They can and should be cut down to size—not solely because the rest of society could use that capital, but also because this batch of billionaires actively wants to take away our rights in their Bond villain feverish dreams.

Whether half this administration can be put in prison is simply a matter of will

Finally read this 😳 A co founded 3 yrs ago by three 19-year-olds, now billionaires, entraps once gainfully employed professionals to atomize, instrumentalize, rubric-ize + obviate their expertise — "explain humor using clear, logical language, incldg refs to... slang, trends + social norms" 😫

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

The arXiv is splitting from Cornell to be an independent nonprofit, in an effort to ensure its long-term stability This sounds wonky but is a big deal and reflects a problem that many crucial scientific services face: how to keep the lights on without charging acacemics fees

Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.

“Marquez-Garrett and Bergman’s argument against social media companies and AI labs is drawn from historical product-liability cases, such as tobacco, asbestos, and the Ford Pinto. Essentially, Marquez-Garrett is alleging that these companies are making harmful design choices.”

Absolute pure genius. Please take a moment if you haven't to behold the best commentary on AI you will see this year (& judging from the aesthetics built with Claude Code, which just makes it even more poinant imho—Erin can correct me).

So proud of our host nation in many ways - the push to green energy has been impressive. Spain has reduced the influence of expensive fossil generators on the electricity price by 75% since 2019 If only other nations stopped fawning over despot regimes& big oil corporations & just got on with it!

Relevant to the moment. The farmworker movement is not Cesar Chavez. It was (and is) a whole community of people doing the work.

great day to remember that there are millions of unknown organizers, names never in the press or on buildings or traveling as charismatic aura, who are constantly connecting, resourcing, dignifying, problem-solving humanity and that they are the true fabric of our world, my world, this world

All abusers must be dragged through the mud and be held accountable, whether they're left or not, your hero, who cares—probably more so if they're your hero. Even better, if you can manage it: don't have heroes.

Que partidazo!! 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN, MY FRIENDS.

Let's go, Venezuela!!!

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41 people have died in ICE detention since the start of the second Trump administration. 12 of those deaths have occurred since January 1, 2026, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I mapped every death. Here's what the data shows. 🧵

Mamdani's St. Patrick's Day message is something else altogether. Wow. You'll see it soon enough on your feed, if you haven't seen it.

BTW, this book is coming out absolutely bananas. When I said I wanted to enjoy writing it, looks like I meant it. Not tenure-track, so not writing like one. I also didn't want to write a crossover book, since I'm 100% nerd. Result: vernacular + deep archival footnotes, no chapters—and a joy (to me).

TFW you return 41 books to the library after finishing 2/3 of your manuscript, and promising to yourself to take out only 3 at a time for the final 1/3.

There have been 41 ICE detention deaths so far during the second term. @austinkocher.com breaks it down here, and rightly calls on us to (continue to) demand accountability. austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-41...

The stories I've heard about this character... whew.

I've seen some of this work come to fruition. I can't wait for the whole shebang! Julian es la bomba.

With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4

This makes me so happy. This film, anchored by Michael B. Jordan’s performance, is so deeply meaningful to so many of us. Lovely to see this upright, talented young man recognized for his superb portrayal. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Sinners was the best picture this year. Why am I watching this show?!

THAT'S RIGHT

I need everyone to promise that if Timothy Chamaschmuck wins it, we will never watch the Oscars again.

Absolutely not. Coogler got jacked.