In this new article, "Cameras On: How Schools Reify Unequal Relationships Through Decisions About Online Visibility," @bdinsmore.bsky.social & I complicate narratives about online classrooms through research into covid-era and pre-pandemic remote schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Federal education authorities have threatened to withhold grant money from Chicago Public Schools unless the district agrees to do away with its Black Student Success Plan and revises policies regarding transgender students. https://to.wttw.com/3ItM8xd

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A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

i am far from a regular reader of this magazine but credit where due, that is a great hed+dek pairing

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

@annehelen.bsky.social on bullshit jobs.

@mvenetucci.bsky.social Loved your #4s2025 talk yesterday and found it so resonant! Was sorry I couldn't stay for the discussion, looking forward to reading whatever you publish on this topic.

So many great #4s2025 talks I will be thinking about for a long time.

at #4s2025 in an hour i will reveal whether you can talk your way out of social problems or not in the "writing things down" session

Tapping the sign

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

I'll be presenting at 1040 at #4s2025 on the "New Alliances between EduTech and Politics: Defining the Field of Education in Digital Societies" session, Sheraton 2nd fl, Juniper room.

NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

People hate when abolitionists say this. But it is correct.

“The business commitments include things like cash prizes for students and teachers who use AI in educational ways, and cheap or free access to the companies' AI tools, trainings and certifications.”

Running into so many awesome people at #4s2025 makes the ridiculous amount of travel & balancing paper deadlines & conference presentations & first weeks of semester teaching worth it.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

FUCK, man.

"More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August," per the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:

Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."

Pritzker gets it.

Wow 300 of the DOJ civil rights division’s roughly 400 lawyers have left since the start of the Trump administration, per its head Harmeet Dhillon

I’m careful about what I post here because I know my teenager reads it sometimes. I hope they will be aware—so many of my students aren’t, yet—but not overwhelmed. Not defeated. Fascism is speeding up. But kiddo, it’s bound to lose. It always has.

I will point out that Gebbia's big deal as co-founder of Airbnb is a company that got big *precisely because it ignored and ran roughshod over regulations* with the strategy of getting so big that it could essentially dictate terms. You can think about what that means for government.

JB Pritzker calls on the news industry to show courage and avoid both-sides-ing a fascist government's military occupation of a great American city.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

10 months ago, a company across the world put my neighbor's access to medical care at risk, giving us 2wks notice that software behind our 40 electric car chargers would be shut down. This is the story of how my neighborhood broke free from this potential disaster. natematias.com/portfolio/20...

“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”

The IDF just did a double tap strike against a hospital. They waited until the first responders and journalists to show up before massacring them with a second strike.

*updating my course syllabi to state that use of Grammarly is not allowed*

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This is politics as community building and social bonding. Participate, and engage with others. Dems should do more of this. The GOP has tapped into a much more destructive version of this via QAnon and the manosphere.

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

Happy first day of school to all who celebrate 🎉 ❤️

I shouldn't take finding a dead mouse in my office on the first day of classes as an omen for the new school year, right? Right?!

KKR really gunning for that top anti-Palestine corporate overlord spot huh

The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents and personal data, according to a copy of a subpoena.

“…with one respondent referring to Twitter as a ‘once cool, now abandoned shopping mall’”

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Yesterday I messed around with GPT + my syllabi: running through sample assignments, readings, getting more info on subjects I'm teaching, etc. so I could get a sense of students might see, and...so much of it was totally wrong, made up, etc. Like, we know this is a thing, but it was so absurd.

Not to mention their families. [reposted to add: this is only "quietly" if we let it be]

Punishing universities for "fighting back"--that is, for petitioning the courts for redress of grievances--would be a serious violation of the First Amendment even if Trump's broader campaign against the universities was lawful, which it isn't. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...