1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

“Annabelle Winograd spent her life dedicated to theater– understanding it, teaching it, and shaping the future of it.” 💔

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

CUNY friends (and allies!), please follow the new CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education account. Our mission statement and a link to get involved is here: cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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NOW is the time to make your voice heard! Join the PSC up for immigrant New Yorkers on September 25th at Foley Square at 6PM ET.

Happening NOW: NYPD is arresting peaceful protestors including PSC leadership who are demanding ICE release all immigrants detained at 26 Federal Plaza. Inside the building, ICE is detaining elected officials for doing the same #NYvsICE #ICEoutofNY

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

the *tiniest* sliver of the money Meta spent to get a 🤖 to read this man a stir-fry recipe could have funded my university for a year & we would have OVER-performed

“No one can deny the power and size of the AI coalition, an ensemble of Silicon Valley investors, lobbyists, and bought-off politicians; hucksters, carnival barkers, and gravy train chasers; and bosses gleeful at the opportunity to downsize and deskill.” —IT‘S OK TO BE A LUDDITE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXh... this is the right moment for this doc

For example, if you are #CUNY or #SUNY affiliated (or anyone interested in defending higher ed in NYC/NYS) #CADHE #MADC @cadhe.bsky.social cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

the #BenShahn retrospective at the Jewish Museum is fantastic & so is this critique of it. hyperallergic.com/1028907/ben-...

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Agreed: Morgan Bassichis’s Can I Be Frank? is a smart, compassionate love letter to queer performance histories. Sure, it has some of the flaws of a self-referential one-person show but I promise you’ll be talking about it afterwards…& googling Frank Maya! www.sohoplayhouse.com/see-a-show/m...

Academic collections aren't usually bittersweet, but this one from @uofmpress.bsky.social on age & aging in the #theater is: incomparable scholar Elinor Fuchs (1933-2024) was among its instigators. My interview with the remarkable critic, Bonnie Marranca, is within... press.umich.edu/Books/L/Late...

I was JUST singing the praises of the Segal Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & now I see they've rolled out a beta version #NYC #theater listings! HOW MANY convos have you had w/friends about the lack of theater listings in this culture capital!? They heard you! www.theaterlistingsnyc.com

Frank Hentschker: can’t stop won’t stop! The Segal Center’s programming is so smart and so good. It’s programming for the kind of theater town I want to live in…

From Arthur Miller's "Are We Interested in Stopping the Killing?" in the NYTimes, 6/8/1969.

I met Ozzie Rodriguez in the La Mama archive when I was a nervous grad student w/ no confidence in my research. He was a kind & generous presence among the filing cabinets: a radical archivist & passionate historian of an institution he helped to build & to preserve.💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...

Materials "for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor." 🤖🤖🤖🤖 against-a-i.com #highereducation #pedagogy

Recommend: the heartbreaking & haunting "New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love" - all proceeds go to the musical & therapeutic project, Gaza Birds Singing. lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social

Deal of the day #booksky

Anyone listen to higher ed (policy, news, opinion) podcasts that they'd recommend? #highereducation #universities #podcasts

When I say “trust the process,” this is the process I’m talking about

“We are agents of the sacred…” if you haven’t found your summer 2025 performance highlight yet may I suggest Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Tune Up at Little Island??? My description won’t do it justice but the subtitle does enough: A PUNK-COUTURE MEDICINE SHOW FOR THE PEOPLE littleisland.org/event/the-tu...

Another devastating article about the horrors unfolding daily in NYC immigration courts - this one with remarkably detailed reporting from @paulbmoses.bsky.social #journalism #ICE

For example! #booksky

I was thrilled to serve on this book award committee & it is not hyperbole to say that the finalist list is STACKED with memorable, powerful works. Pick your title/s and get reading! #booksky #atds

My respect for Adlan Jackson grows with every word he types, and that is understatement. hellgatenyc.com/nyt-critics-...

As usual, Coney Island Avenue storefronts speak volumes

My Dad’s watergate pin collection has some timeless (/timely?) classics

The Curious Cabinet Opening Night: June 5 at The Godwin Ternbach Museum! Interactive exhibit & performance on how museums shape memory through art & everyday objects. 🗓 Shows: June 5–8 at 5:30 & 7pm 📅 Exhibition open through June 30 📍 Klapper Hall, 4th Fl RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-curiou...)

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Proud to live in a neighborhood that celebrates a Bodega cat’s return in style 🥹

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

In truth, if you’d told my 19 yr old self that a career in journalism meant investigating the drug use of antichrist billionaires, I might have switched majors

There’s a joke to be made out of the reporting on Musk’s ketamine-inspired bladder problems and the phrase “government waste” but it’s eluding me

But also w/ RCV the key is FILL OUT YOUR WHOLE BALLOT w/ Cuomo nowhere on it. If you rank Adams 1 and Mamdani 2 or Mamdani 3 and Lander 2 or Mamdani 1 or Zellnor 4 all great make your choice but do NOT waste a bubble & don’t let Cuomo scoop up your 4th or 5th round. rankthevotenyc.org

Just no

Let’s make it a trend: a lot of Off-Broadway theaters could benefit from bidding “farewell to their former selves”

Dunno why the original link was deleted, but this article about Flushing is still extremely beautiful! urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/neit...

And for anyone who thinks that it's the young guns who have all the innovative ideas for the stage these days, Caryl Churchill's latest at the Public destroys such folly. She's been scribing for over SIXTY YEARS and "Kill" and "The Imp" surprised & devastated as much as anything I've seen recently.

Maybe you know of the historic St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem, or of the remarkable Rev. Dr. Derrick McQueen. Their building was broken into the night they celebrated their 130th anniversary. Help them replace the $10K in equipment that was stolen & continue their legacy! gofund.me/704fb89f

This is crazy-beautiful writing about the city in general and Flushing in particular. 🌆 💗

We all know it’s happening, now here are the receipts…

Join PSC and a special guest from Common Cause New York to learn about NYC’s ranked choice voting system, and how to maximize your impact! Monday, May 19, 6:30pm on zoom. RSVP: psc-cuny.org/rcv

Hats off to Danielle Allen. I understand the criticism of her participation, but if you’ve read her books, you’d know she *had* to accept the invite. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/a...

Linda McMahon’s entry into the Harvard Derangement Syndrome (HDS) competition is truly unhinged.