I'm delivering an online research seminar next Friday 6 March 1-2pm AEDT with WSU. uws.zoom.us/j/8314940900... Meeting ID: 831 4940 9001 Password: 469673

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Massive W as a parent when your child sends you stuff like this

Gosh, who could have seen that coming?!

I keep seeing all these "Aussie patriots" defending the cops actions at the Herzog rally, and I can't help but think of this artwork

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I wrote a gonzo thing on my last day or so as a err pro-Palestine activist ('activist' makes me sound better than I am though) lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

This is not Guenther's point exactly but lately I'm fascinated by how just the mention of 'pronoun' indexes a whole political philosophy to those on the right

Foreign language learners show a kinematic accent in their co-speech hand movements. New paper by Hans Rutger Bosker & al. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.321

Drawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government.

Fuck the colony, all my homies hate the colony

If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.

Work and labor are such different things. Work is what you put in even when it won’t benefit you much but just to maintain homeostasis in your living space or in your intellectual zone. Labor is how you are exploited in order to get currency. I don’t dream of labor either but of happy works for love

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

Please help Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah with her legal costs

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The arbitrary codification of what is “correct culture” is so heinous and anti-human. Done specifically to police nonconformists and enable bigotry, invented by people with the least love of their own society and those myriads living in it.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

I've long felt that the Venn diagram of 'surf Nazis' and 'actual Nazis' would closely resemble a circle. Source: I grew up in a beachside suburb of Sydney best known for its race riot

2026 reading list starts here:

10 thinkers with the biggest influence on me: 1. Michel Foucault 2. Karl Marx 3. Michael Silverstein 4. Judith Irvine 5. Jan Blommaert 6. Janet Holmes 7. Gilles Deleuze 8. Elinor Ochs 9. Norman Fairclough 10. Michael Burawoy

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I'm presenting some of my research data from performance management meetings at a seminar this week, and I am overjoyed that I finally get to use this video. 2 something minutes of comedy gold that encapsulate my entire PhD thesis

This is real

Ya don't say 🫩

They should have just got these guys in for the Michael Caine voice youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Yes we’ve had §230 debates about social media, but have we tried “the user is the one who is liable for perceiving online harms” yet?

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."

I loathe the discourse of 'psychosocial risks/hazards', and while I can see how it might be beneficial in some lines of work I believe that overall it will only do harm to the labour movement

In amongst all the terrible news in this world, here is a singular, shining piece of good fortune for you: I have made the ultimate disco playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2qO...

just ScienceDirect promoting uncorrected ai-generated phrenology-sounding slop (that UGs would likely not notice is phrenology-sounding slop). irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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The problem with the bourgeois reification into academic 'disciplines' is that the solutions proposed are in answer to the narrowly defined issues mediated through that discipline

New piece on Social Europe, on the impact of the digital revolution on work and why platformisation ultimately matters more than automation #EconSky #sociology @lauranurski.bsky.social @sergiotorrejon.com

AI boosters keep saying, in the face of what is clearly a bubble, that perhaps it will be like the dot com bubble, and that longer term the technology will prove itself, much like profit-making from the internet. But why assume that AI is following a similar track to internet platforms?

I expected Keir Starmer to be a bland, middle-management, platitudinous, tediously disappointing Prime Minister, which is why it’s been such a surprise to find out he’s actually a stupid, incompetent, vindictive, reactionary and outright dismaying Prime Minister.

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

We also show how a counter language ideology labelling those literacy practices as 'HR-language' operated as a form of discursive counter-conduct. It was an absolute pleasure writing this with Karin and learned a lot from doing so. Let me know if you can't access it and I can get you a copy.

I'm happy to say that the article that Karin Tusting and I wrote for Text and Talk is now available. In it, we look at how a number literacy practices were deployed in a university language centre to try to shape workers into reflective practitioners. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...