Paranoid idea: The expansion of syllabi into multi-page contracts was always going to lead to something like this. It's a pedagogical model that imagines every classroom interaction can be identified, documented, and thus extracted. These syllabi make it much easier for our work to be fed to AI now.

More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...

Lmao maybe there is a god

And another one, i could go all day but i wont

Now were talking

Cc’ing @annakornbluh.bsky.social’s immediacy lol

!!FIND!!

Easy

Def true but also first things my students do upon starting a seminar is make a whatsapp group for everyobe lol

This is truly the worst argument. I’ve had to scrub clauses like this out of syllabi and literally tell students ‘please just talk to your friends about your ideas.’ considering our historical moment, telling students to talk to friends and share work might be the most radical pedagogy i do.

the big course course i flunked at uni during my literature degree was in 2008 and asked us to use computers to analyze public domain novels for word frequencies and detect patterns. Lol. Lmao even.

Spit out my drink lol

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5v... Banger by @vijayiyer.bsky.social and wadada leo smith. Need this record!

One of my most millenial coded traits is i really like video art

Not lost on me that the vast majority of the people who were on here in mid 2024 talking about the need to restore Lebanese sovereignty have nothing to say about the total depopulation of much of south Lebanon by the Israeli occupation or the arbitrary and totally unrestrained bombing campaign.

Unbelievable tbh but truly wonderful news

Its michel houellebeck’s world and were just living in fml

enjoyed this podcast with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social not least for the snatches of autobiography, swearing and always trenchant analysis ✨

one of my favorite fictional characters i encountered this year is Dora, the underworld shade living in Melinoë’s tent in Hades II, who inexplicably developed the ability to speak and really wants to be a scary haunty ghost

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Very weird being in the UK where i cant use even my bsky chat function without age verifying

Man Hades II is fun as hell

In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more. proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

First Christmas in Gaza in two years: A story of hope and survival https://aje.io/2itg3n

Who could ever have predicted that Gaza is heading to protracted conflict with maximal Palestinian suffering and not peace www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/gazas...

Last post of 2025. In this Fanonian centenary moment, we’re reminded of our inability to wrench humanity out of occupation & oppression. As we hear of Thunberg’s arrest & the criminalisation of support to Palestine, the realisation that decolonisation is an ongoing process should inform our actions.

yup the ai thing is just pure old fashioned collective psychosis

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by UK police under the Terrorism Act at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London, which insures the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

'scholar's brain' is real... we should bring back this kind of fatigue nosology

Aha were at the left-ish ‘lets be specific about what AI can do foe the revolution’ stage of the cycle luvly

I literally only know of this woman because of her hate campaigns against Arab professors how did USA make her in charge of everything

So beautiful 😭

This will make maybe 4 people chuckle as much as i did but this indie comic imagines the existential 90s highschool comedy cartoon character doug in the gothic horror world of fromsofware’s bloodborne game

In the year 2070 they will teach research methods courses directly aimed at ignoring our shitty era

Haha Lol lmao rofl jajaja hhhhh هههههه

This is a bit of a balm after a crazy-making couple of years

well well well

Interesting Morozov critique of @abenanav.bsky.social on the challenge of the non-neutrality of generative AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is it

The AI bros who have been popping up here defending LLMs were literally all made in the same bland faced white guy factory which is apparently one of the manufacturing industries that survived deindustrialization in the US

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already decided" Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...

Receieved what might be the greatest email signoff in history from a dear colleague

It has stevie nicks on it

The new gorillaz album is called cracker island lol