Statement from a Paralegal on the Prairieland Federal case ”Heartbroken doesn’t even begin to describe it, but this isn’t over either and I’m going to continue to fight this.” This is the first sentence Savanna Batten, one of the nine defendants who was convicted in the (1/3)

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

"This is a nightmare scenario, & the nightmare is here." A must read from @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @therealnews.com about the state of free speech & media in the United States, today. #freespeech #media @projectcensored.bsky.social therealnews.com/the-war-on-o...

people are sending me important memes

I love the idea of a "Student Tech Bill of Rights, which includes the right to “read whole books,” to “regularly read and write on paper,” and to “a low-stimulation learning environment.”" www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

"aims to rejuvenate the study of literature in schools and universities by researching, facilitating, and championing creative-critical teaching practices. These include writing in style, recreative writing, writing-in-role, adaptation, and many others." #HigherEd www.nate.org.uk/2026/05/06/b...

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Esto se acerca a la opinión que tengo en estos momentos sobre el tema. En obras.

Opinion | When Native history is treated as something “too negative” to present plainly, the nation’s self-image once again outranks Native survival. cal.news/4cg3VEm 📝 Kerry Malloy 📸 Brontë Wittpenn

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

i have to agree entirely with femi here: for me, *long-form* reading--not an essay i can crank through in 10-15 and go rush to poast about--but a book that forces me into the perspective of another for an extended period, forces me to see that thought developed, is an immensely valuable discipline

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.

Just out in the Sundial! medium.com/the-sundial-...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Efraín Kristal (1959-2025) is gone. He asked us all to memorize poems as a precondition for studying Rubén Darío together. Por eso puedo pensar esta noche en la palabra que huye, y en la barca del sueño que en el espacio boga.

‘Independent publishing is facing an existential crisis’: illustrated.

This entire thread. 👇🏽

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

At the breakfast diner, another blow to free speech as an adult woman seated next to me haltingly describes to a friend how much she enjoys using gen Al. "It's like, I don't have to think very much. I just, I tell it what I want to say and it says it for me."

I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.

"The most important aspect of recognizing this history is not so those of us descended from settlers...feel shame, but rather “to recognize that these tactics, [a division into] savage vs. civilized, continues to inhabit our society." This article asks for email, but not money. Worth the read.

We republished Anas's final message to the world @therealnews.com. May he & the Gaza @aljazeera.com team rest in peace & in power. May we somehow someday prove we deserve forgiveness for letting this happen, because it is unforgivable. Unspeakable. Ttheir blood is on our hands. tinyurl.com/sdd7zwup

I have books on my shelf right now that are nearly 300 years old. There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 300 years.

America in a nutshell.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate

New today from Ana Flores: "I learned early as a Texan that our state doesn’t always fight for its people. Especially if you’re Latina. Especially if you’re undocumented. Especially if you’re young, brown, or poor."

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

@thenation.com (close) reading and intellectual freedom defector.com/close-readin...

Have you read our newest post yet? @eksbainbridge.bsky.social delves into the politics of maps and how techno-fascism is making it worse: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...

John Guillory's definition of close reading feels substantive. Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

This is how I feel, too. I think a large part of how we got here is that test-based K-12 education is so deeply flawed. There is almost no reading or writing compared to when I was in school. Then, when students hit college they've never practiced those skills, so of course turn to LLM's.

Wow—grateful for this research on the how students’ wellbeing was damaged by the premature end of emergency remote instruction. Faculty also experienced this as one of the pandemic’s many traumas.

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

According to three members of Congress, Rumeysa Ozturk has been repeatedly denied access to her lawyer, refused asthma medication despite attacks, forced to endure extreme temperatures, and denied religious accommodations. Her ‘crime’? An oped in a school newspaper. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

‘Dina Khaled Zaurub, a 22-year-old artist who drew portraits of people who had been killed, was in a tent in a displaced persons camp close to Khan Younis when she was herself killed by an Israeli airstrike.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on who Israel is killing in Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

"This Holy Week, the only thing I care to reflect on is how the label terrorist is deployed by empires to dehumanize and criminalize people."

“The current repression is a belated attempt to restore the status of Zionism on our campuses by trying to eliminate the possibility of critique or even argument. But as the wreckage of Columbia shows, the cost of this restoration is the destruction of the university itself.”

Teaching tool alert! nyupress.org/blog/2025/03...

To celebrate the 177th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, we present Eric Hobsbawm's Introduction to our 2012 Edition