Zine cover=my letterpress "everything for everyone!" bc it's wrong not everyone has basic rights! UBI! let alone thriving like time+resources for creativity—much less considering a residency. Residencies specifically for folks w/under-resourced identities, needs (eg caregivers) do exist+

The question isn't "does this mean machine god 2030?" or "should I invest in Anthropic" but "is this fucking useful? When and how? What are the impacts of doing things by rolling dice instead of consciously?" The answer is mostly our consciousness matters when we want outputs that benefit us.

Alan Turing (in one of the crankiest papers ever written) in the 1950s figured out that if you attach a random number generator to an interpreter and allow random mutations of programs to be evaluated for "fitness" for a goal, the random number generator would eventually program solutions.

very few memes getting as much mileage as this one

a cool prehistory of online classes & MOOCs etc // she is me

Don't get too excited about Hunter Biden's new social media persona. Looks like another nepo baby crypto grift is afoot...

The Pod Save America bros hosted one of the most transphobic columnists in mainstream media for a friendly chat. *groan*

you know, i'd be less salty if they just had enough respect for us as fellow humans to tell us the truth. don't gaslight us like some shitty ex. we're smart enough to know better.

Yep same here. They will close our revenue generating program Rlgs program because they decided it is not enough money and they are going to “invest” elsewhere.

i'm moving forward with a new departmental home. but i want y'all to know that our college closed my former department -- a nationally-known one -- to save an operating budget of $121,825. don't ever let them tell you it's about the money, friends. it's not. receipts at p. 698:

let me add too that we were ostensibly closed because our major was "unsustainable," but the state's - and university's - own metrics showed that our enrollment has been growing consistently since 2012 this wasn't about money and it wasn't about metrics. it was about something else.

Democrats, Republicans, university administrators, K-12 administrators, all in firm agreement about this. And it’s terrible for kids.

Document details numerous whistleblower allegations against Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara, top staff weeks before resignation

what a weird national conversation

who should get an a at harvard we went to a diner in ohio to find out

seems like deciding who gets an a at harvard is not, should not be some kind of democratic-ish process

This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

They absolutely have an opportunity and they are hell-bent on not taking it

if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults

jfc

It's starting to feel like this in Minneapolis too

Mira, among a lifetime of hustles, was as p major MST3K tape maker & distributor in the 90s/early 2000s

I'll never stop being startled by how many big name scholars at big name universities are just genuinely stupid people, and/or quite plainly have a lower capacity for serious/rigourous thinking than, say, a random person propping up a bar somewhere.

I don’t know where along the way people who expect to be taken seriously decided that good research and inquiry ought to come from a place of zero point of view or knowledge.

A former professor & VP of @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, my alma mater, weighs in on what reads to me as not its inevitable death but its murder. This may seem like just one sad higher ed story, but I believe it's emblematic of all that's REALLY wrong with higher ed.

In a sane world, this would mean the loss of accreditation for Auburn, because real universities don't have their curricula decided by politicians.

Auburn has died as a university

You can find many, many seasons of Mr Roger’s on @archive.org with no ads or YouTube mumbo jumbo, if that’s more your speed! Highly recommend for both kids & adults tbh!

The parents of LaGuardia High School student Oliver, 17, are raising the alarm after getting a surprise call from Mount Sinai on Thursday informing them that the hospital would be handing over trans children's medical records—including their son's—to the Trump administration.

Hamawy, Mamdani and El Sayed really just straight up do not belong anywhere near the same category as Platner and it is strange to see people both pro and anti Platner make this comparison

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

I see people are talking about speed limiters as a viable tech in America and everything else aside: I need you all to realize that we destroyed civil society because Applebee's was closed for a few weeks in some states during a deadly pandemic. I don't think we're getting speed limiters

80 of these 100 people had no legal representation, and court observers couldn’t attend hearings that by law are open to the public (a Strib reporter also couldn’t get in) 1/

"[computer thing] is now much easier, you don't need the old experts!"; "turns out doing [ computer thing ] right goes better with expertise"; "better hire new experts!" is basically the fractal shape of computing history back to, like, COBOL so, you know.

Once again naively shocked to see the profound consequences of administrative nepotism + patriarchy. Friends-of-the-provost boys' clubs rallying around friends, eliminating threats by summarily ending careers, and tanking an institution's reputation in the process. This is still how things work.

Natasha Lennard and Adam Tooze discuss the current energy crisis, its long history, and the global forces shaping the future of energy. @adamtooze.bsky.social @natashalennard.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2026/05/inte...

Watching formidable institutions of higher education fall over each other to abase themselves has been one of the more depressing aspects of being a scholar at this moment.

I mean no disrespect but I can't believe we're still pretending "corporations never cared about Pride" is an interesting thing to say. even during peak corp Pride I think you had to be exceptionally dim to not get what was going on lol like yeah I think I know Chipotle would kill me for a nickel

The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

It's neat to think how none of us will ever do this bad a job at anything we ever do in our entire lives

Art Institute has moved to censor free speech of its tenured faculty.

"The property owners who hold vacant space hostage would rather use it as a tax write-off than provide stable homes for the community. If the private sector can’t or refuses to accomplish this, then maybe the public sector ought to take action.” - Christian Heller, MPLS resident

are you just going to do this for every generation

* Bathhouses Regulations - Ending Legalized Homophobia Ordinance by removing language to modernize & eliminate barriers to develop licenses for adult bathhouses in the future. This is being led by @elliottpayne.org & also has @robin4mpls.bsky.social & @sorenwithward8.bsky.social as authors. 7/

Pronatalist politics do not extend to everyone. That's how eugenics (positive AND negative) works.

AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty and staff across the university. To be clear, they were not let go on the basis of job performance. Read our full statement here 👇 docs.google.com/document/u/1... @aaup.org

ICE vehicles have been seen this morning in the Corcoran and Powderhorn neighborhoods/ South Minneapolis. It would be great to get extra support from community today. Please help out in your local area. 1/