I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

Daredevil: Born Again S3

Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Even the so-called 'good' NYT columnists are committed to making classroom micro-politics national news while ignoring the manifold structural problems with higher ed. The @nytimes.com higher ed's coverage is a manifestation of PMC anxieties about universities, not a depiction of reality.

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Waymo in California allegedly called the cops on two teenagers for “drinking and shooting from the vehicle,” according to local police. Story here: www.404media.co/waymo-called...

we run a podcast that introduces challenging conversations on various topics. In march, I cohosted an episode of it where we talked to @yangyangcheng.bsky.social nuvoices.com/podcast/a-co...

btw im moderating a sexual harassment in politics/policy workshop at the end of the month and we will post a free summary/recap of information after it ends

When your esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social has bought a new lens, it is part of an aunty's obligation to help the child practice📸

Thrilled to share this episode with Mengwei Tu, hosted by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social. We talked time inheritance, gender and educational mobility in and out of China. A conversation that brought out thinking I had not anticipated. 🎙️ madeinchinajournal.com/2026/06/29/e... @madeinchinajournal.com

Such a great experience to discuss inherited time inqualities in education and mobility across China with @madeinchinajournal.com @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! Wonderful conversation and lots of new insights for me!

What drives Chinese children to study overseas, and how do they and their parents plan around shifting immigration regimes? For the our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with sociologists @coralinglingxu.bsky.social and Mengwei Tu about education and mobility in and out of China.

Please read and share widely this first ever interview between two writers with non-speaking autism. (One is my son, the other is his good friend Woody Brown, a Columbia MFA and the author of the best-selling UPWARD BOUND.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/wood...

University of Hong Kong student publication Undergrad shuts down after 74 years 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/06/29/u...

I hate that this — urgent pleas to save prestigious departments from drastic cuts — is becoming a regular occurrence. A program like this takes decades to build and a few strokes of a pen to destroy.

Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.

The retraction of Max Planck papers looks more like Springer Nature using badly tuned copyright management tools as a proxy for information integrity tools.

Three days after Springer Nature sold Scientific American without warning, the NLRB conducted our scheduled union vote count, despite Springer Nature’s attempt to stop it. And guess what? WE WON. What’s more, it was nearly unanimous, with 31 out of 32 voters checking YES.

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

A thread on Duanwu 端午

Have you listened to 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, the monthly podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly, yet?😉 We launched last year. Find all current and future episodes here or on your favorite podcast platform: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

Have you listened to 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, the monthly podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly, yet?😉 We launched last year. Find all current and future episodes here or on your favorite podcast platform: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

Myself and @solarina.ca talked to @yangyangcheng.bsky.social recently bsky.app/profile/nuvo...

"For those of us who are spared the firsthand trauma of 1989, venturing into the forbidden is only the first step. Outside of China, Tiananmen is not at risk of being forgotten, but awareness does not equate to understanding." How may novels honor the legacy of June 4? I write @chinabooksreview.com:

37 years after #June4, who gets to write about it, for whose consumption, and to what end? For @chinabooksreview.com, I examine Tiananmen in novels. The real question is not whether historical accuracy can give way to poetic license, but what truths are sought and revealed by the imaginary accounts.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

"The class hierarchy that manifested during Tiananmen extends to its artistic remembrance...perhaps because only the relatively privileged can leave China and write from the safety of distance, where they must also speak in the language of Western liberalism to reach a broader audience." My latest:

“We must rescue the truth of Tiananmen from the distortions of Orientalism, and interrogate the protesters’ demands beyond mere slogans.” Tough. When imposed or psychological self censoring construe to diminish memory & history, survivors’ rationale/capacity for expression pushed to the outer limit

Sometimes fiction is the only way a story can be remembered. I still remember going to China in '96 and the Americans I was with kept badgering our hosts about Tiananmen Sq, being totally clueless that the rooms were bugged and that they were putting our hosts lives at risk by asking them.

Read Yangyang Cheng's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...

Sur les mémoires du massacre du 4 juin dans la fiction, en particulier dans la littérature, avec ce questionnement : "Il est facile de déclarer "ne jamais oublier" à un océan de distance, mais de quoi se souvient-on exactement ?"

"Reclaiming the working-class character of the 1989 movements casts recent Chinese history in a new light and reshapes our understanding of the country’s current conjuncture." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

All Chinese live today with the information legacy of Tiananmen. We look back at the brief moment before the crackdown when China's press stood with those demanding change. linguasinica.substack.com/p/how-a-mass...

"Someone remembered. Someone always remembers." I always think of this grave marker mentioned in the ending of @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social's powerful essay, written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of 6/4/1989.

Flera av de här romanerna finns i svensk översättning, men tyvärr inte Ma Jians Beijing Coma som är den stora Fjärde juni-romanen.

Goed stuk over hoe 'Tian'anmen' naar voren komt in literatuur die in het Westen in het Engels wordt gepubliceerd, en wat dat betekent voor het beeld dat wordt herdacht. Over oa Ha Jin, "Beijing Coma" van Ma Jian en "Zomer van verraad" van Hong Ying. #China #Tiananmen

37 years after #June4, who gets to write about it, for whose consumption, and to what end? For @chinabooksreview.com, I examine Tiananmen in novels. The real question is not whether historical accuracy can give way to poetic license, but what truths are sought and revealed by the imaginary accounts.

After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right? Read @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...

Honored to be back on @npr.org @wbur.org's On Point to discuss Chinese views on the recent Trump visit: Why is Beijing calling the summit with few concrete agreements "a milestone"? What are the Chinese public seeing? Is this a propaganda coup for Xi, and has anything changed in terms of Taiwan?📻:

Honored to be back on @npr.org @wbur.org's On Point to discuss Chinese views on the recent Trump visit: Why is Beijing calling the summit with few concrete agreements "a milestone"? What are the Chinese public seeing? Is this a propaganda coup for Xi, and has anything changed in terms of Taiwan?📻:

I point this out to say that “AI” is most legible in the context of technological advancements in labor busting and the least legible as a productivity or efficiency tool.

For those who meet the conditions by @elifriedman.bsky.social "The question of hukou’s demise is as old as China’s capitalist reforms". positionspolitics.org/eli-friedman...

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Newsletter of @thewirechina.bsky.social with link to a Q&A with me (glad to see the photo in the center used in as China's June 4th anniversary approaches--a reminder that there was joy in the square before there were tanks in the streets in 1989) www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-...

NEW: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has withdrawn as the Harvard Law School Class Day speaker, after the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers asked her not to cross its picket line. Uy B. Pham and Claire L. Simon report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

What does techno-modernity look like from inside the Great Firewall? On the 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social discusses creativity and self-expression at the edge of what's permissible with journalist @yilingliu95.bsky.social and writer @afrawang.bsky.social.