I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

I'm always very open about the fact that I received SNAP benefits and Medicaid for a bit after I fled my abusive husband with my little kid in tow. I used it to help me start over in a new state and go back to school to get my BA. I now have a PhD. SNAP benefits saved my life.

I'm just a simple country doctor, but maybe it was a bad idea to outsource so much of higher ed's infrastructure to private companies' proprietary technologies with single points of failure.

People don’t trust academia because its incentives have been warped by decades of poorly thought out and implemented “accountability” mechanisms.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

In the future being disconnected will be a luxury good. Elite universities will market themselves as places where you get to live without a phone and enjoy human connection and community. You’ll have the privilege of time to think. It’s an extension of the humanities being for rich kids only.

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

Sometimes isomorphic institutionalism is a good thing.

Buried in #VAGov story, a little media story. Most gender/schools coverage in VA comes from one reporter for a Sinclair station in DC market, who works it as part of Sinclair's "Crisis in the Classroom" series. His job before news media? Trump admin spox www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

This has been baffling to watch as a reporter outside the WH. Standing up for your counterparts from other orgs is just something to do as a good person and also important to stand up for our profession generally. We’ve learned that being a quisling will not save you or your org!

here's a direct link to canceling your Disney+ account. post your cancellations in the comments. www.disneyplus.com/commerce/acc...

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

'You Could Just Use an LLM to Analyze Those Texts' or 'Why Don't You Just Write a ChatGPT Prompt for That?': An Autoethnography of Presenting Interpretive Work at APSA in 2025

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

This captures it perfectly. Don't click the article; don't tie yourself in knots over it. Just meditate on this.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

oh noooo

passing this along. have been removing AI from as many platforms as possible. Many concerns, including privacy & security. meetingnotes.com/blog/how-to-...

This is why when I asked my students yesterday what % of Americans think climate change was a hoax they guessed between 40% - 60%. It’s actually around 11% and has been for almost 20 years! But we HEAR from deniers SO MUCH (especially the White House) that people think the numbers are higher.

It’s obviously not a new problem that our government is traveling the world randomly killing people of color with reckless abandon in their own communities, but it should still make us all furious.

Three lessons from Taco Bell's highly confused drive-thru AI www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell...

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.

we get a lot of patients who fill somewhere else and get their shots with us for the 10% off groceries coupon if a patient who normally filled at a different chain came to ours and said they had asthma or diabetes etc, I would have no way of verifying whether that was true or false just saying

I’ve worked in and studied the student success movement for almost ten years now, and despite all the fancy consultants and technology being pushed on schools, it almost comes back to this. A good subset of students will need genuine support from a human professional.

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A Don Quixote-esque tragedy

Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people

A mother clutches her son moments after a school mass turned into tragedy. 2 children dead, 17 injured. It’s the guns. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

My university has adopted several different efficiency apps/products over the past several years (and for which we have paid a not small amount of money). Those apps have added several hours of busy work to every one of my weeks, and have had few perceivable benefits for students.

This would do a tremendous amount to remove the current incentives around some of the most ill-suited use cases for this technology while preserving things that actually are useful (protein folding, ancient language text prediction, etc).

Once again, I'm asking technologists to ask not "can we do this" but instead "do people want this?"

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

For everyone tearing up over Mamdani's scavenger hunt because you can't remember the last time someone in politics did something fun, what *you* need is a better State Fair.

Even our less-bad billionaires see no meaningful difference between Trump’s extortion versus a democratic polity taking some money back for health care, roads, and schools. It’s all zero-sum to them.

neoliberal modes of management There is of course a certain irony in an institution that did as much as any (and more than most) to forge the intellectual armature of neoliberalism (the home of Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys!) to be done in by the very neoliberal logics it had helped to 18/

Turns out that censor list is not very data-based! Who would have thought?

“Schooling has been on a steady march of alienating students.” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. By the time students get to my classes, I’m trying at the very least not to make it worse and - at best - to provide a bit of a salve.