If you want to understand how the attacks on Ivies illustrates a close coordination between trumpland, trumpists inside notionally liberal institutions, and purported free thinkers working as state press, listen to @jeetheer.bsky.social interview @davidklion.bsky.social overcast.fm/+AA5oOCynyqs

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this exists it is called thinking

"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical." @dehypotheses.bsky.social

FAIR: “Barnard Prez’s NYT Op-Ed Is Height of Hypocrisy” fair.org/home/barnard...

A remarkable essay on, among other things, the personal toll of working at the consent factory. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

“I never experienced censorship or negative repercussions for my speech during my career in corporate media” is not so much a refutation of leftist arguments against media consolidation as it is a confession of squandered opportunity

New Yorkers got a little taste of this too hellgatenyc.com/narendra-mod...

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

In my culture it is extremely disrespectful to subject another person to AI-generated art or language.

I am a very proud signatory of this new statement. full statement here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Ohio State University is now requiring students to become "fluent" in AI. It's a perverse metaphor, and as always, the wisdom of Star Trek proves useful in understanding its perversity. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

I have deleted my account using this workaround.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

When the people who become university leaders praise Charlie Kirk and sic the military on anti-war protesters we can’t reduce the problem to individual leaders. This is university governance problem. Too much power in negligent trustees who have proven incapable of defending anything that matters.

One idea that's shaped this country is that it's un-American to suggest that the dominant could or should face consequences. You clear the land, stake a claim, do and say want you want, and move on like it never happened. That's the way things should be. No one has a right to say any different.

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

A remarkable essay on, among other things, the personal toll of working at the consent factory. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

were to be around him at any time for any reason due to his habitual sexual harassment and assaults. Frank Miller released one of the most savagely Islamophobic comics of all time, HOLY TERROR, and still works with DC. There are pedophiles, war criminals, confessed sexual predators on staff.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I think the approach of “affirmative action but only for conservatives and DEI but only for Jews and by Jews we mean just some” that it appears universities are taking is misguided

American Jews are the single most pro-trans rights religious group in the US. forward.com/fast-forward... Meanwhile, the Tikvah Fund, which is getting millions of dollars to represent Jews on campus on behalf of the state, has an explicitly anti-trans agenda and denies trans identities.

Ma'am you banned students from hanging whiteboards on their own dorm doors so nobody might write something that could hurt someone else's feelings

Tikvah Fund is the Jewish version of the Heritage Foundation — a right-wing think tank with an overt goal of moving global Jewry to the right politically. Every shitbag Jewish attorney arguing to upend your constitutional rights, as well as the ones behind Israel's judicial coup, is a Tikvah fellow.

Just to add- every college speaker even for individual classes, must be vetted in advance (something I’ve not seen in almost 20 years here) & she’s 🤷🏼‍♀️ about our BOT not responding to the freedom of expression guidelines voted on by faculty.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Of course, I agree with Rosenbury's position here. And if class solidarity means college presidents now have to assure donors & trustees of their support for "grappling with hard questions," one could envision persuading that audience that this should include Palestine. But I won't hold my breath.

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

The President of Barnard College calls for more controversial speakers like the late Kirk (without citing any of his controversial views), a position at odds with what Barnard colleagues describe as a track record of censoring events and speakers on Palestine. (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Testimonies of Israeli doctors from the torture camp of Sde Teyman. By my colleagues Hagar Kotef and Meirav Amir. theconversation.com/israeli-doct...

#ReliefWednesday - Panel from an ivory diptych showing the personification of Constantinople standing within an aedicule. Traces of wax on the reverse of the panel indicate that they once served as writing tablets. 🏺 Image: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (X 38). Link - www.khm.at/en/artworks/...

Some personal news: I found the papeterie near my office that sells fountain pen ink *on tap*

AI "companies with budgets orders of magnitude bigger than the public sector, run by man-children with massive egos betting the farm on making a God in a box chimera where all it can do is to bugger up higher education and people's ability to write things." - @mkblyth.bsky.social Great interview 👇

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"To applaud those making the long-foretold pivot for their moral courage is not only unnecessary but perverse; they are, at best, joining a coalition built by the people they insulted, scorned, and in some cases called for arresting when their words counted most."

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

Stop and think about the government threatening to jail a person if they refuse to print political material with which they disagree.

In March, masked agents grabbed our client Dr. Badar Khan Suri for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights. Over the next four days, he was transferred between five different ICE facilities — including the infamous Alexandria Staging Facility, a "black hole" where immigrants disappear.

'sickos' vocitantur, de eo quod per fenestram ridentes, 'ha ha ha... sic!' clamant -Isidorus Hispalensis

Worked on the universities, why not try it

Is anyone going to point out how similar “we’re going to dox and harass you and call your boss if you don’t express the proper reaction to this podcaster’s assassination” is to “we’re going to dox and harass you and call your boss if you don’t express the proper reaction to the Oct 7 attacks”

The cleaning of the world’s largest #Roman floor mosaic, covering around 1050 sqm. It was discovered during the construction of a hotel in Antakya/Turkey. The shifting of the ground during an earthquake has caused a a ripple effect. Dating 4th c. AD. 🏺#mosaicmonday 📷 www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/sanat...

“the chancellor claimed we had a problem due to our liberal arts designation (& its interpretation to suggest “liberal” politics), a problem we ‘can’t educate our way out of.’…Our chancellor is willing to compromise students’ education due to a legislator’s ignorance on the meaning of liberal arts”

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

We used to call it 'Occidental despotism,' until the politically correct bleeding-hearts made us change the name of the department to 'European and Western Studies'