The alts to these my god 🤣

Also feel for the people on two-person committees, because imagine being stuck in a hotel room for three days with your department's resident creeper.

Had one of these that was so bad that even though I was only a grad student I almost contacted the school to let them know how badly the cmte members behaved. Everyone's knees smashed against the giant bed made it physically awkward, but wasn't even in the top 5 worst parts of the experience.

Seeing this graph a lot, and this framing seems off. As someone who moved out of the US in my late 20s, these results read like a referendum on how bad things are in the US (extremely bad!) and less like people seriously considering & choosing the realities of being a non-citizen in a new country.

Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.

Me, but hoping universities still exist when I get to be Mrs. Dalloway's age:

Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)

My kingdom for an elected official who will campaign on denying these guys billion dollar government contracts.

Reposting to add: World Central Kitchen is now also doing meal support for Hurricane Melissa relief in Jamaica: donate.wck.org/give/738350#...

Confirm the "flavor unlike any I've ever had before" assessment of @ranchogordo.bsky.social's Gay Caballero: definitely ate a little too much of this the first time I had it because I had several additional "ok, but what IS that?" extra bites. (Tamarind-y, but I don't think it's tamarind?)

The nice thing about never reading the New York Times is I don’t have to read the New York Times.

Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

@mattseybold.bsky.social's proposal to (among other things) reestablish faculty and students' control over their data & work here is...brilliant, actually? (Tho it would strip upper admin of their power to decide WHO gets to buy that data...😢) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

Here's what people don't get about the social model vs medical model of disability (i.e. it's not your condition disabling you, it's society's refusal to allow for different kinds of people). Ableism hurts *everyone* and accommodations help people without that disability. 🧵 (1/5)

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

It's actually disqualifying that Schumer is such an ignorant, reprehensible bigot that he cannot support his party's nominee for mayor of the city in which he resides. Ditto for Gillibrand (tho she doesn't pretend to live here). We're never beating the fascists with these assholes.

seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

People are once again trying the "blocklists are BAD, actually" argument, which reminds me that I keep meaning to make a "people who post Mary Oliver poems" blocklist.

Teen Vogue had been doing real political reporting, for a demographic that is often dismissed or mocked. This is so disheartening.

Want to help folks in #Haiti devastated by Hurricane Melissa? @fokalayiti.bsky.social is an on-the-ground, Haitian-led organization. Their program Ayiti Demen is organizing this fundraiser, along with local farmer organizations, to give help directly to families secure.givelively.org/donate/ayiti...

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Treating facial recognition as a definitive ID is at odds with virtually every law enforcement agency in America that has policies & procedures for using the tech. Don't treat a match as a defintive ID is perhaps the most basic rule of the tech, including by DHS. These actions violate agency rules:

Please share!!! The American Friends of Jamaica has just announced $1M matching fund- a 💵 for 💵 match for donations going through their channels theafj.org The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa

Not hard to see why a thin-skinned authoritarian's handlers would not want the guy who wrote "You Must Set Forth at Dawn" hanging around.

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

The poor work more than the rich. This is so obvious it shouldn't need to be said, but American ideologies of meritocracy and bootstrapping obfuscate the realities of poverty. No one works harder than the poor. It's also expensive to be poor, but that's another post for another day.

🧵of places to contribute to Hurricane #Melissa Relief efforts for Jamaica/Jamaicans. (Thanks for this, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social!)

What’s your Cask of Amontillado? Jacobin’s is “lefty affect/Nazi tatts.”

It's also, of course, an example of the kind of training we're less and less able to pass on to students, due to EdTech, austerity, AI, and the dismantling of university systems everywhere those projects gain a foothold. (Refusing tech doomerism per @faineg.bsky.social, but woof, it's an effort.)

Finishing up Peter J. Kalliney's _The Aesthetic Cold War_ and going to hang on to this paragraph as an example of the kind of reflection and work for which there are no shortcuts, and that a humanities education prepares us to do:

With all due respect, using "critical AI" is like using "critical smoking," "critical pollution," "critical brutality," or "critical exploitation." An inflection that never changes the destructive nature of the thing.

“We may decide to release water volumes in the future, But … we should only do so if the lack of data undermines the programme or is required by regulators” Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit

Ho ho ho it's book prize time send me your badass work

Speaking as an Arizonan who voted for Kyrsten Sinema: I need you to learn from my mistakes, Mainers.

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social! Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

Had a preview of this last week at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, and can't wait to teach with it!

Couldn't get out to the Pima County Board of Supervisors' meeting this morning, but encouraged to see some hundreds of people (in red, and including @nodesertdatacenter.com members) still standing up to the #ProjectBlue development agreement. At 9 AM! on a Tuesday!

Poetry haul from my first visit to Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix last week 💜 Came away feeling that I would live there if I could…

U of Arizona is, at least nominally, a NO to the compact: tucson.com/news/local/e...

hey maybe abolish ed tech & bring back the books

"The Library of Babel Group is a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression." Join us. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

The text of the U of A response to the compact is here: president.arizona.edu/news/update-.... It's...a no? I guess?

Re: all the US gov accts that just arrived here to troll: block, move on, let them wither.

FYI, I’m not super interested in seeing quote reposts dunking on these new accounts. Will block if I see them.

Speaking of, this is happening this afternoon:

Proud of the public institution where I got my PhD, hoping 🤞🏻to be able to say the same about the public institution where I work!

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.