So much for the Oil Wars being a myth.

My institution, #CUNY, is happy to pay someone up to $200,000 to “advance AI.” Meanwhile, I fight the good fight to keep it the fuck out of my classroom, for a heck of a lot less.

Ha ha

Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican

Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today: acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant. johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...

#Petroforms the book is real and I’m talking about it tomorrow at John Jay College. @wvupress.bsky.social

Trump administration ending funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, claiming they are “racially discriminatory”?! Everything is upside down and back to front. What does this mean for @cuny.edu? For @johnjayco.bsky.social??

Saw this wonderfully original documentary tonight at the Foreign Press Association. Highly recommend: youtu.be/OMytTsr2psM?... #Khartoummovie

Ha!! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Excited to be coming to Galway for this! Will be presenting on Southern African archives & chairing a #petrocultures panel.

What could possibly go wrong?

Shit, man. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/e... Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor who starred as Theo in ‘The Cosby Show,’ dead at 54 | CNN

Anyone speak Portuguese? Trying to renew a pp (in case, you know, we need an out) and the translate fn spit this out: “semre scenaie an original documento, excluding a cow,” which I am assuming is not correct.

Your monthly contribution and mine now count for that much more. #plannedparenthood

I thought they were all in love with Diane!!

Woah. www.bbc.com/news/article...

She was everything : www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Move over, Nadine Gordimer! According to Google AI, I wrote Burger’s Daughter!!

“Art history beats finance” in degree showdown: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Neuroscience backs up these stances—you are more likely to think that strangers are “squalid” if you’re conservative and more likely to be open to other people’s ideas, lifestyles, foods—you name it—if liberal.

Tomorrow! Excited about the fourth and last installment of this amazing energy hums teach-in. I’ll be presenting on corporate pedagogy in the classroom.

Please join us for the fourth and final installment of our Energy Democracy teach-in series on Thursday 8 May at 11am. The fourth session is based upon the fourth module of our syllabus—on “democracy” and “case studies in energy democracy.” More info and link to Zoom meeting: [email protected]

Ripped from the 19th century headlines?!?

BREAKING Federal judge in Vermont orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi!!

May I suggest: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

So excited to see my book in the @wvupress.bsky.social fall catalogue!!

Even my products are concerned in the current conjuncture.

Signed.

Wow. It’s a more complete cv for me than my own…

Pepper’s busy prepping.

Athol Fugard, RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Now missing from @energygov.bsky.social is the LEAD tool, the Low-Income Energy Affordability Data tool that “allows users to understand and compare the cost of energy relative to income, also known as the energy burden.” Redirects to the home pg now (!):

USA in fine company…on the #civicus watchlist for countries violating civic freedoms:

This. Wtf @nbcnews.com ? I couldn’t believe my ears when Engel said this. Totally bassackwards. Trump humiliated himself and his country.

Can we please stop saying “chilling effect“ and start saying what we really mean – i.e. fear, silence, censorship?

We thought that reading and teaching Orwell and Atwood would warn people. We thought they’d get the satire. Instead, they used the fiction as their playbook.

@nytimes.com!!! DEMOCRACY IS DYING IN DARKNESS! They are not “scrutinizing” the Dept of Education, they are going to dismantle it!!!! Shine your light on this. Please. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

If this regime is intent on posing a threat to the rest of the world by withdrawing from @who.int and @altusaid.bsky.social and making RFK jr “health” secretary, then the rest of the world should require that visiting Americans show proof of vaccination to protect themselves against us.

Gee, I wonder who’s whispering that “certain classes of people” are being “treated badly” in SAfrica into Trump’s ear…? www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/a...

Love this for how it points out the double standard. The problem is that this regime wants there to be a double standard.

I’m going to go with someone should have thought twice before printing this at @latimes.com…

We’re tired. G’night.

Not too shabby…

In memory of Nikki Giovanni, I’m using “The Song of the Feet” to end the semester in my literary corpus-themed intro to lit class tomorrow.

Teaching Victor LaValle’s “Destroyer” alongside “Frankenstein” and realizing I need to share a BLM timeline cuz my students were 6…7…8 years old (!) when Trayvon Martin was killed?! Damn. ps can’t figure out italics or uploading images to Bluesky yet…

In the NY area? Want to get in the holiday mood? Come hear The Dessoff Choirs this weekend. (Use code “alto” for a discount.)

We went away and now the cats are clingy.

Energy humanities gift guide suggestion? Energy hums meets game studies?