This all makes sense to me but it is one of those things where if you find it persuasive the responsible thing to do would be to log all the way off www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

What he said www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

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Library of Alexandria nbd

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education nathankhensley.net/uncategorize...

"We will not forgive you motherfuckers for all you're doing"

The fight over accreditation is the fight over higher education. And that is the fight between multiracial democracy and Christian nationalist authoritarianism. www.chronicle.com/article/proj...

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

Now available for preorder - Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 by Ghassan Kanafani, with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi

New Yorkers gathered on the steps of city hall today to say NO to buffer zones, NO to censorship, NO to empowering the cops to violently policing protest they disagree with. @nyclu.org @aqeny.bsky.social @nycforabortion.bsky.social @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social

REMEMBERING GAZA SCHOLARS A group of academics have spent the past 18 months creating an archive that commemorates the lives of Palestinian scholars killed by Israel. 83 of our colleagues, so far, have bios; the group's work continues rememberinggazascholars.org

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Hi, folks! I'm looking for books embossed in moon. I'm particularly interested in finding as many copies, editions, and variations (even incomplete sets) of "The Gospel of John" that are in moon type, but if your library or archive has ANY moon books, please let me know? Example of moon type below.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

News --> More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff members at Harvard write an open letter saying Trump's attacks on the university, done in the name of fighting "antisemitism," are actually contrary to the interests of Jewish people:

organizing gets the goods

1 NEW from me in @literaryhub.bsky.social: I go deep on what it means that NYU has ended live graduation speeches lithub.com/the-real-can...

the thing that gets me about this stuff is that "how students can use AI to support their academic work while maintaining academic integrity and ethical standards" is a thesis, and a pretty doubtful one, not a question, much less a subject; even academic "AI literacy" is delivered as advertorial

This is one reason teachers and editors should not rely on these detectors. It’s an unwinnable arms race or a closed system depending how you look at it.

This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Making fun of writing on bluesky is a way to create a cultural elite! My weird, quick take on Shy Girl, AI Slop, and wine-dark seas

lesson here: universities are better positioned to "live their values" when faculty have real governance power. @bostonu.bsky.social's central admin wld have avoided lots of headaches by treating faculty as a partners to engage and not problems to manage. Proud of BU @aaup.org speaking out.

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say). This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

So where should we all be ordering our own window flags from?

big fan of this expression from the Shadow of the Comet point and click

Police in London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime attack after four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set on fire. n.pr/4bIoGai

This is such a stupid time to be writing a book

Hello, today I found an incorrect quotation in Le Grand Robert

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

This is an amazing film. Clarifies what we are fighting for. For students, like those in the film, to find (and be) themselves, grow intellectually, and be passionate about what they love. Authoritarian hacks--like Rufo and Corcoran-- don't understand that. Or they do, and are deeply frightened.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Syracuse University is eliminating nine of its liberal arts majors, one of which is Jewish Studies. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns... I sure hope the few Jewish people who got behind this attack on higher education in the name of "fighting campus antisemitism" are feeling proud of themselves.

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide. buff.ly/ZlOmxuF

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

"Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it."

Reupping this piece about how refusing to talk about Israel and Israel/support for Israel's role in US politics emboldens extremists who will do it and will do it less responsibly/with more antisemitism for no reason (just kidding the reason is Tucker Carlson again) forward.com/opinion/8140...

Which is why the decision by the ADL to go to war with Zohran Mamdani was a generational mistake. They think they can shut down criticism of Israel. But people will just get it from voices like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who care a lot less about distinguishing between state and people.

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

My "Ask Me Anything" about white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity is Friday at 9AM EDT on www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori.... Hop on and ask a question! (engagement drives the algorithm to make the post more visible to more people so it really helps!)

DLSS 5 OFF / DLSS 5 ON

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

This is an incredible resource and reference. 45 (!!!) examples of successfully bargained language, with every type of institution represented.