I liked a lot of last night's Emmy results, but boy did I hate last night's Emmy telecast:

Concur completely with Professor Norena, this is a disastrous action. I don’t see how Chancellor Rich Lyons recovers from it. As I posted here yesterday, it marks the end of the time when UC Berkeley could claim the mantel of Free Speech as part of its core identity.

Some important reporting on data work. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Surprising but telling to see Google flat-out denying the contribution of data workers to their products: >>

The next time someone tells you this is just how it is/"AI" is inevitable/this junk is here to stay, please remember that the future is not yet written and we don't have to put up with this.

This is wild but I went on my fav podcast QAA Pod to harp on about the phoney baloney NatSec social science of Disinfo Studies. Big thanks to @travisview.bsky.social and Julian! www.patreon.com/posts/135278...

"A small cohort of artists + cultural wrkrs, distinguished by a clear-👀 understanding of the contradictions + compromises that govern the field, has recast the legacy of socially engaged art [thru] institutional decay. They’ve put the tools of finance + law to use in redirecting wealth + power..."

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

In response to the movement "...The moral awakening occurred as planned. It just didn't make a difference. What they hadn't counted on was the utter lack of real democracy in the West." "After Nonviolence: The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine" by Ben Ehrenreich harpers.org/archive/2025...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Money is a public responsibility. It names, coordinates, and sustains the capacities people already build together. Our approach is accountable where life is actually organized—schools, unions, libraries, clinics, transit, tenant groups, and campaigns—and it is governed in public."

Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW is the documentary of the year, maybe the movie of the year. For @rollingstone.com, I spoke to filmmaker Julia Loktev, who in 2021 went to Russia to chronicle young independent journalists, only to witness Putin's crackdown in horrifying real time.

"There is a kind of coalition work that begins by loosening the archive of political memory. It asks, generously, where should credit for movement victories go, and what have we discredited with too much finality?"

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

I need a long German word that means “just when you think it can’t get more end-times dystopia you find out about something like this” (Props to the hacker kids tho)

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers reut.rs/4l4OkbJ

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments. If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

"because virtue is actually important to professional work [moral deskilling] also means that no one can really do their jobs. This is now causing massive system failures"

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

If I could go to a movie theater right now I would go see the BTS movie on the big screen youtu.be/q-mI5YlZBPw?...

"Instead of treating money as a scarce resource to be unlocked from the top down, complementary currencies reveal money to be a flexible and inscribable record of solidarity and coordination."

At the end of May at the Money Talks (llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...) conference at U of Edinburgh I made a similar call: Alt currencies as democratic praxis. moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/28/i...

"Basic values of academic freedom require that the scholarly content of courses, programs, and research endeavors remain under the authority of faculty and not be subject to direction of monitoring by authorities outside the university." Good on the signatories. Shouldn't have to be said, but does.

Amidst it all I found this moving, teens rallying for their friend, in New Haven. The ones in front here were inspired by a performance/action in Los Angeles #FreeEsdrás www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ice_...

Gaza is on the brink of a catastrophic man-made famine. Starvation is already widespread; 1 in 3 people are going days at a time without food, and kids are dying daily of hunger-related causes. After imposing a full blockade for months, Netanyahu is now letting in only a fraction of the aid needed.

I'm very moved by teachers advocating for this kid. I'm glad they're speaking to the NHI. I believe them that he is beloved + shy + hardworking. PS tho kids who are mischievous + are struggling in math ALSO DESERVE OUR CARE AND PROTECTION Stay fighting www.newhavenindependent.org/article/lett...

First time my dad took me to a library, I legit thought that shit was magic. “You mean you can just borrow these books for free? As many as you want?” Comparing that to the “racist pile of linear algebra” and ai comes up short every time.

Some beautiful news Trump Team Pissed as L.A. Juries Refuse to Indict ICE Protesters share.google/2MverA9VEnFw...

"Money is queer, we argue, because monetary systems remain open and contestable public institutions. Even those institutions that visibly dominate and exclude vitally rely upon the promiscuous multiplicities that hegemonic orders strive to suppress and occlude."

But also of course, the problem was capitalism all along, not whether the humanities are profitable. We can prove the instrumental worth of what we do all day long but we only save education and research and the arts, together, when we understand them as fundamental necessary public goods.

Cutting us is ideological. It’s not financial. It’s not about the bottom line or about crisis. And it’s not smart. Rebuilding departments (once the mistake is recognized) comes at a huge cost. Maintaining costs very little & comes w big benefits. It’s surprising leaders don’t recognize this./16

“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...

Starting at 10am ET Media freedom, civil rights groups to hold press conference about prolonged ICE detention of journalist Mario Guevara LIVE HERE: www.facebook.com/MarioGuevara...

“…my position on [AND GENERAL DESPAIR ABOUT] OpenAI has hardened in recent months, as they have themselves recognized that their only path to profitability is to follow the models of… Meta and Alphabet by creating dependency and/or addiction for an entire generation” [despair added for emphasis]

"Ziplines is renting the brand equity of regionalized public higher education in the aggregate" but "the evolution of education which companies like Ziplines imagine is not one of mutual flourishing with their university partners, but one in which those partners can be retired and replaced."

Los Angeles: 1 Marines: 0

In order to re-invest in that purpose, of higher ed, I must move through how paralyzingly depressed and writing-blocked this is all making me www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Philosophy is the hunt – that race across the plains – for wisdom, whereas strategy is the search for advantage. Both things are ultimately, however, human activities.” I agree with basically all of this piece minus a couple of things about arms. Makes me feel cranky and old.

When I say most people are good and we are going to beat these fascists, people like this woman are why I feel so confident: “The message that it sent was very clear: For us to be afraid to come back and do the work that we’re doing,” Mendez said. Stone, however, said she would volunteer again.”

I am 1000% with the excellent Ms Jeong on this matter.

We have a fact sheet for that! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...

Score 1 for democracy, courts, the press, and Angelenos

saved these two cat portraits by photographer pete thorne forever ago because both of them felt like things that happen when you doomscroll and i really do return to them a lot

sorry if i'm preaching to the choir here but part of why Zohran Mamdani is such a threat to career politicians on both sides is that his campaign is visibly disproving a carefully constructed narrative- that big cities are dangerous places, and people don't care about their communities or politics

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase>' This is very very bad news: www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...

The Republican megabill pours roughly $45 billion into new immigration detention centers. "If you bring in detention centers to a community, this is the issue: They make the economies dependent on those detention centers," says an immigration expert. boltsmag.org/how-the...